To find Perry's Ice Cream flavor near you, use our Flavor Locator: click "Where To By" tab on the home page of Perry's web-site. Specialty: premium and light ice cream, gelato, frozen yogurt, sherbet. Celebrating your birthday. Hitting your first homerun. Curling up with a good book. Finishing the last load of laundry. For all of life's moments, there's Perry's Ice Cream. Since 1918, the...
Perry's Ice Cream was founded in 1918 when Morton Perry, a broom maker, purchased a very small dairy in Akron, N.Y. The dairy was operated as a home delivery and wholesale business until 1932. At that time, the Akron High School cafeteria manager asked Morton if he could supply ice cream to the school. Excited about the prospect of growing his company in the midst of the Depression, Morton used...