Mackie's

Entrance to Mackie's farm in Westertown

Mackie's is a Scottish ice cream and confectionery manufacturer based in Westertown, Rothienorman, Aberdeenshire.[1] It was founded in 1912[2] as a dairy farm but diversified into the manufacture of ice cream after selling the milk retail business to Robert Wiseman during 1997.[3] In 2009 a partnership was formed with a Tayside potato farmer to produce crisps, marketed under the name of Mackie's at Taypack.[4] The manufacture of chocolate was added in 2014.[4]

The ice cream is made on the family farm, and uses fresh, whole milk.[5] The farm holds 330 cows and produces over 10 million litres of ice cream a year.[1] In 2017, the company opened its first ice cream parlour in Marischal Square, Aberdeen.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Main, Callum (5 December 2017). "Everything you need to know about Mackie's ice cream parlour in Aberdeen". Aberdeen Evening Express. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "About Mackie's". Mackie's (official website). Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Moulds, Josephine (15 November 2017). "To milk it in ice cream you need to keep changing". The Times. Retrieved 8 December 2017. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. 1 2 Ranscombe, Peter (11 September 2017). "Milking it". BQ Magazine Scotland. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Mackie's Traditional Luxury Dairy Ice Cream 1 Litre". Tesco. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Mackie's parlour scoops first Marischal Square shop spot". BBC News. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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