Halo Top, the US ice-cream business acquired by larger peer Wells Enterprises earlier this year, is to shut a domestic factory.
The company is to close a plant in Chicago, according to a filing with the Illinois state government.
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Some 28 staff will be laid off between 28 December and 13 March.
The filing also stated five other lay-offs at Halo Top’s Chicago office had started on 31 October.
Family-run Wells Enterprises, based in Iowa, announced a deal to buy Halo Top from Eden Creamery in September. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Eden Creamery was founded in 2012 by former lawyer Justin Woolverton. In the summer of 2017, the Los Angeles-based firm was reported to have hired bankers to explore a sale of the business, which had taken the US ice cream market by storm with the low-calorie, protein-rich Halo Top brand before later launching in Canada and the UK.
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By GlobalDataSeptember also saw Wells Enterprises announce it was buying an ice cream factory in Nevada from Unilever, which had previously said it planned to close the plant.
Wells Enterprises is based in Le Mars, Iowa, where it also has two manufacturing plants. The company also has a factory in Dunkirk, New York and a production facility in Lakewood, New Jersey.
With Halo Top, Wells Enterprises has five ice-cream brands under its wing, including Blue Bunny, Bomb Pop, Blue Ribbon Classics and Chilly Cow. It also offers private-label and co-packing services.
