What is Schoep's Ice Cream?
{{Infobox Company |company_name = Schoep's Ice Cream |company_logo = Schoep's Ice Cream Factory.jpg |company_type = |foundation = 1928 |location = 2070 Helena Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53704 |key_people = |num_employees = 150 |revenue = $40 million (as of 2008) |operating_income = |net_income = |assets = |equity = |products = [[Ice cream]] |homepage = {{url|http://www.schoepsicecream.com/}} |}} '''Schoep's Ice Cream''' is an ice cream manufacturing company based in [[Madison, Wisconsin]]. ==History== Schoep's Ice Cream was founded by E.J. Schoephoester in 1928. Schoephoester produced and sold the ice cream in his grocery store. By 1937 Schoep's Ice Cream had become well known locally and E. B. Schoephoester sold his company to Peter B. Thomsen, a butter maker.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19820827&id=8WsWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JhIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5411,5952824 |title=Schoep's ice cream sales lift company to top spot in state |work=The Milwaukee Sentinel |date=1982-08-27 |first=Larry |last=Engel |accessdate=2010-06-11 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The company has been kept in the Thomsen family, and as of 2008 it was owned in part by nineteen members of the Thomsen family. ==Operation== All of Schoep's Ice Cream is currently produced from a single factory located on Helena Street in [[Madison, Wisconsin]]. As of 2008 Schoep's was producing 6,000 gallons of ice cream an hour and 2.5 million gallons a year. With this high production rate, Schoep's has been recognized as the top producer of ice cream in the state of [[Wisconsin]]. Due to this growth, in 2005, Schoep's opened a $7 million, 46,000-square-foot distribution center on Manufacturers Drive, near the Dane County Regional Airport. This new facility features space for 3,600 pallets and 14 loading-dock doors. Before this facility was built, Schoep's had shipped all of their ice cream from two loading docks at their factory.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dairyfoods.c