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SCHOEP'S ICE CREAM |
Schoep's, a family-owned business and Wisconsin's largest independent ice cream producer, has been a family affair for the Thomsen family for seven decades. Made from original family recipes, Schoep's was first produced in 1928 to supply Madison, Wisconsin, area restaurants with the finest quality ice cream. As popularity and demand grew, Schoep's began packaging their delicious ice cream for the entire family to enjoy at home ... and HomePak was born. Today, Schoep's also manufactures a complete line of frozen yogurt, light ice cream, frozen custard, sherbet and novelties and also owns Milwaukee’s Gilles Frozen Custard & Sherbet company. Current company president Paul Thomsen started working at the plant when he was nine. In the 1940s, during his earliest employment, he made popsicles at the rate of 40 cents an hour which was shared with four other workers. Today there are six Thomsens working at the Madison headquarters: Paul, his brother Les, and their sons, John and Eric. Alan and Rich Thomsen are the sons of Walter Thomsen, who recently retired. And the Thomsens are not the only family working at Schoep's. Husband and wife teams, daughters and granddaughters work side by side. "We encourage family members to work here," says Thomsen, "because I look at the company as my second family."
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