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Dreyer's Shifts Production to East and West Coast Plants

The closure will impact 168 employees in manufacturing and distribution in Houston. Another 115 sales, distribution and corporate support employees will remain inHouston after the plant closes.

In addition to theHouston facility, Dreyer's has two plants -- one in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and another inLaurel, Maryland -- that handle East Coast production, and three ice cream manufacturing plants in the West -- in Bakersfield, California;Tulare, California; andSalt Lake City, Utah -- for a current total of six ice cream plants across the country. TheLaurel and Bakersfield ice cream facilities are two of the world's largest.

Dreyer'sHouston plant produces ice cream in family-size cartons for home sale as well as larger foodservice containers for restaurants and parlors.

Dreyer's, which is headquartered inOakland, California, where it was founded in 1928, has more than 7,000 employees across the country.

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a full spectrum of ice cream and frozen dessert products. Brands of frozen dessert products currently manufactured or distributed by Dreyer's inthe United States include Grand, Slow Churned(R), Dibs(R), Haagen-Dazs(R), Nestle(R) Drumstick(R), Nestle Crunch(R), Nestle(R) Butterfinger(R), Nestle(R) Toll House(R), Nestle(R) Carnation(R), Nestle(R) Push-Up(R), Frosty Paws(R), Eskimo Pie(R), Fruit Bars and The Skinny Cow(R). The company's premium products are marketed under the Dreyer's brand name throughout the Western states andTexas, and under the Edy's(R) brand name throughout the remainder ofthe United States. Internationally, the Dreyer's brand extends to select markets in the Far East and the Edy's brand extends to theCaribbean andSouth America. For more information on the company, please visit http://www.dreyersinc.com.

In the U.S. the Haagen-Dazs trademark is sub-licensed to Dreyer's by Nestle.

SOURCE Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc.