Dreyer's Shifts Production to East and West Coast Plants

Company to Stop Manufacturing in Houston by April

HOUSTON, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. announced
today that it will stop production at its Houston, Texas, manufacturing
facility by the beginning of April 2009, and shift production to four of its
other plants in Bakersfield and Tulare, California; Laurel, Maryland; and Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
The closure will impact 168 employees in manufacturing and distribution in
Houston. Another 115 sales, distribution and corporate support employees will
remain in Houston after the plant closes.
In addition to the Houston facility, Dreyer's has two plants -- one in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and another in Laurel, Maryland -- that handle East Coast
production, and three ice cream manufacturing plants in the West -- in
Bakersfield, California; Tulare, California; and Salt Lake City, Utah -- for a
current total of six ice cream plants across the country. The Laurel and
Bakersfield ice cream facilities are two of the world's largest.
Dreyer's Houston 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 in Oakland, 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 in the 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 and Texas, and under the Edy's(R) brand name
throughout the remainder of the United States. Internationally, the Dreyer's
brand extends to select markets in the Far East and the Edy's brand extends to
the Caribbean and South 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.

Dori Sera Bailey of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc., +1-510-601-4241, wireless,
+1-510-406-4844, dori.bailey@dreyers.com