Ice-cream maker going in at Yarnell's
A Pennsylvania company will start making ice cream for a Chicago biscuit company that bought a legendary Arkansas ice cream maker eight years ago.
Turkey Hill LLC of Lancaster, Pa., said Wednesday that it has bought the 100,000-square-foot facility in Searcy that produces Yarnell's ice cream from Schulze & Burch Biscuit Co. of Chicago. Turkey Hill also said it has signed a "co-manufacturing agreement" with Schulze & Burch to make Yarnell's ice cream and frozen novelties.
Schulze & Burch, which also makes toaster pastries, cereal bars and other snacks in Searcy, will retain the Yarnell's brand.
The companies didn't release terms of the deal.
Yarnell's Ice Cream Co. was founded in 1932 by Ray Yarnell, whose funeral visitation in 2018 featured hand-dipped ice cream, according to his obituary. Schulze & Burch bought Yarnell's out of bankruptcy in 2011 and reopened the plant a few months later. Yarnell's was Schulze & Burch's first venture into ice cream.
Turkey Hill was founded in 1931. Many of its products under the Turkey Hill brand also are in stores in Arkansas.
-- Stephen Steed
Delta's MD-88s, -90s make final landings
ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines' MD-88 and MD-90 aircraft took their final flights Tuesday and are headed to an airplane boneyard.
MD-88s and MD-90s were workhorse aircraft that carried travelers to and from Atlanta and other U.S. cities for decades. They flew nearly half of Delta's flights in Atlanta as recently as 2014.
The last of the MD-88s touched down as Flight 88 at Hartsfield-Jackson International at about 9 a.m. Tuesday from Washington Dulles, greeted with a water cannon salute and applause from pilots and aviation geeks who gazed through the windows of Concourse A.
The retiring jets are headed to Blytheville where Delta has been storing unused planes during the coronavirus pandemic.
For MD-90s, the retirement from Delta's fleet marks the end of the line. While there are some MD-88s in use overseas, no other U.S. airline uses them for regular flights.
Delta recently sped up the retirement of the 149-seat MD-88s, parked half its fleet and also will retire its Boeing 777s.
-- Cox Newspapers
State index up 3.36 to end day at 390.o3
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, closed Wednesday at 390.03, up 3.36.
"Positive payroll data reported early in the day boosted investor enthusiasm as the S&P 500 index closed higher for the fourth consecutive session, led by cyclical sectors including industrials and financials," said Leon Lants, managing director at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
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