Parents: Perry Richardson Bass, Nancy Lee Bassįamily: Sid is the eldest of four brothers - also including Edward, Robert and Lee - who inherited a small fortune from their father and their oil wildcatter great-uncle, Sid Richardson of Athens. It has not resumed operations.ĭelivery: You can also order Blue Bell: $129 for four half-gallons. The Brenham plant is larger and is still undergoing improvements to the production process, Blue Bell says. Where is it being made? Blue Bell is a Texas favorite, but this new batch was made at its plants in Sylacauga, Ala., and Broken Arrow, Okla. Twelve-pack Homemade Vanilla Cups and 12-pack Homemade Vanilla and Dutch Chocolate Cups will also be available in this first wave. What flavors? In stores, Blue Bell will initially offer five flavors in the half-gallon and pint sizes: Buttered Pecan, Cookies ’n Cream, Dutch Chocolate, Homemade Vanilla and The Great Divide.
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It will offer free Blue Bell ice cream cones between 1 and 3 p.m. They include Spring Creek BBQ (multiple locations), which has been serving Blue Bell since 1980, and the Big State Fountain Grill in Irving, an old-fashioned diner. A few restaurants are expected to have Blue Bell by Monday afternoon. Where do I get it? According to a Blue Bell rep, 2,750 accounts - mainly supermarkets, drugstores and convenience stores in Dallas-Fort Worth - will begin receiving ice cream as early as 3:30 a.m. It will also return to Waco, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. On Monday, Blue Bell will be reintroduced into North Texas nearly seven months after its products were pulled from stores and restaurants.
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Variety reported that the “buyer” so desired the property that he outbid others by $500,000 to snare it.Īs for Bass’ pursuit of painting, arguably his most famous commission, according to The New York Times, was his portrait of TV news superstar Barbara Walters. According to reports in Varietyand, the actor Patrick Dempsey ( Grey’s Anatomy) and his “estranged” wife, Jillian Fink, sold their 5,547-square foot, three-bedroom, 3.23-acre, Frank Gehry-designed Malibu foothills mansion – complete with outdoor pizza oven, equestrian facilities and a chicken coop -for $15 million to Bass. Since his return to Fort Worth, Bass has reportedly made one other high-profile real estate purchase. He was the most tenacious person you’ll ever know. … When ingenuity didn’t work, tenacity did. He would pry with leverage, he would cajole with honey. In a Star-Telegram account of the funeral, Bass praised Kelly, saying: “If a problem looked hopeless, Dee was a master. stock? And why would arguably the most private of the four Bass brothers (Ed, Robert, and Lee all joined Sid on this year’s Forbes billionaires list), emerge from his carefully formed cocoon of seclusion to make national headlines with an investment in Blue Bell? Why would one of Texas’ wealthiest men take an investment plunge into the uncharted waters of a food company when his previous investment experience had been in oil and gas, high tech and notably Walt Disney Co. Now comes the second wave: Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Tulsa and Oklahoma City get their first Blue Bell deliveries as early as 3:30 a.m. The infusion of money helped Blue Bell get back in the game, and by early September it began selling its first half-gallons in the Houston and Austin areas, as well as parts of Alabama. In mid-July, the eldest Bass brother, who Forbes estimates is worth $1.66 billion, shelled out up to $125 million in what many financial observers label a straightforward loan. The brand was teetering on the edge of extinction.
Beset by negative publicity and delays in isolating the source of the bacteria, a cash-strapped Blue Bell struggled to jump-start its operations.
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