Iconic Canadian ice cream brand [Chapman's] absorbing ‘immediate’ cost hikes due to tariffs
Iconic Canadian ice cream brand [Chapman's] absorbing ‘immediate’ cost hikes due to tariffs
The family behind one of Canada’s most well-known ice cream brands says they’re absorbing 'all immediate increases in our costs' as the U.S.-Canada trade war heats up.
Ashley Chapman, chief operating officer at Ontario-headquartered Chapman’s Ice Cream, said in a statement circulating on social media that the family decided to take that measure for the rest of the year to maintain their prices.
Chapman said they wanted to do their part to support Canadians as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to threaten economic annexation, which Chapman called the “greatest threat to our sovereignty” since the Second World War.
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I watched CBC's video where they interviewed the Chapman's CEO, and they said it was the "only" ice cream manufacturer in Canada.
They forgot about Coaticook!
Yeah they're clearly lying to put more focus on their business. They must know about their many small competitors throughout the country. In my area everyone knows Kawartha Dairy is superior to Chapman's, Kawartha is just more expensive and harder to find cause they're smaller.
That's my thought as well, looks like it could be a marketing stunt for the largest Canadian ice cream producer.
Kawartha Dairy? Central Smith? Chapman's is probably the biggest, and maybe the only brand available across the entire country, but they're not the only one.
They forgot about Cows! (from PEI, common here in NS as well)
I prefer Kawartha but I think I'll be forced to buy some Chapman's.
What percentage of the cost of ice cream comes from US sources? Ice cream base is cream/milk egg and sugar. Chocolate doesn't grow in the US, nor does vanilla. Maybe some nuts and fruits would come from the States. Anything else would be chemical stuff like artificial flavours, emulsifiers, stabilizers and preservatives. Packaging?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for what Chapman's is doing but I wonder how much is symbolic and what it actually means to the price of a tub of ice cream.
They said it was nuts and cherries, and stabilizers.
I think Canada is good for packaging, Mohawk college had the only package design program I think anywhere
Icecream use a lot of stabilizers and other chemical products that are not always easy to get (my wife is a pastry chef and works a lot with icecreams, and was always frustrated because some really good chemicals couldn't be found on Rio de Janeiro and we're only imported to São Paulo)
Makes me wish I wasn't on a diet.