National Ice Cream Month celebrated in US

摘要

Representatives of the ice cream industry joined IDFA president and chief executive Connie Tipton as part of celebrations for National Ice Cream Month. They joined up for the NASDAQ stock market closing bell ceremony on July 23. The daily ceremony marks the end of trading on NASDAQ for the day.rnIn her remarks just prior to ringing the bell, Tipton says that when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July National Ice Cream Month in 1984, he knew ice cream was more than a treat. "The US ice cream industry generates more than $21 billion (€14.6 billion) in annual sales and provides jobs for thousands of people," she notes. "Two hundred years ago, ice cream was a rare and exotic dessert, today more than 90% of American households purchase ice cream, with each person eating an average of almost 21 quarts a year."