R&R Ice Cream

R&R Ice Cream

R&R Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturer headquartered at Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, England. It holds around 10 per cent of the UK ice cream market, second only to Unilever with its Wall's and Ben & Jerry's brands.

The company owns the license to make a range of Nestlé ices having bought the division from the Swiss company. Along with a number of ice cream variations of Nestlé products (such as Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles), the firm also produces a number of well-known brands (such as FAB) that has been in production for over 20 years, and come from the time before Nestlé SA's 1988 take over of British company Rowntree Mackintosh. Many of Nestlé's ice cream brands were formerly made by J. Lyons and Co. under the brand name Lyons Maid.

On 5 May 2006, Richmond Foods announced that it was to be taken over by Oaktree Investments, an American Investment Company, who will unite Roncadin, the biggest German own-brand label ice cream manufacturer, and Richmond, to make the largest ice cream manufacturer in Europe. The company is now known as R&R Ice Cream.

The company manufactures over 600 million ice lollies every year, produces and packages over 70 per cent of 2 litre supermarket own brand ice cream, including for major UK supermarkets such as Tesco and Asda, and employs over 450 people at its Leeming Bar plant.