Halo Top
also referred to as: halo top creamery
15 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2023 by Justin Woolverton · said 76 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (44), Justin Woolverton (22), Amanda Klane (5), Tara Bosch (4), Gabi Lewis (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 70 mentions in 2 episodes 35 per episode
Everything said about Halo Top, oldest first
Apr 17, 2023
Burnout drove Woolverton to refuse a multi-year earnout when selling Halo Top
“That was one of my conditions, because like I said, one of the reasons I wanted to sell was that I was just flat out burnt out, and so one of the conditions was, I'm not doing a thing. I mean, I was willing to stay on for three to six months to transition to t…”
Apr 17, 2023
Severe burnout forced Woolverton to sell Halo Top instead of competing
“If I were refreshed, I probably would have just held onto the company and kind of relished the challenge of getting through all these competitors and having a competitive market, but I was just burnt out, to be perfectly honest, and I was like, I cannot deal w…”
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Halo Top intentionally targeted Greek yogurt fans rather than ice cream purists
“Our main target was, I always just basically said soccer moms. The type of people who liked Greek yogurt, you know, more or less. It wasn't ice cream Gourmet people who tended to be the people who hated on top the most.”
Apr 17, 2023 positive
Apr 17, 2023
Light ice cream offered better defensibility against incumbents than frozen Greek yogurt
“All of these Greek yogurt companies, whether it's Chobani or whether it's just Ben and Jerry's or something, they could make a frozen Greek yogurt at the snap of their fingers. Whereas my little light ice cream concoction was much more unique and had a differe…”
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Retaining 100% control allowed Woolverton to sell Halo Top without board approval
“I did have a hundred percent control, so when it came time to the sale, there, it was extremely easy. I mean, if we like the terms. Yeah, I, but just with a signature, you know, you could kind of, there was no board to run it past or anything like that.”
Apr 17, 2023 neutral
Apr 17, 2023 bullish
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023 neutral
Sep 25, 2023 negative
Harrington: Yasso Pulled Its Eight-Flavor Pint Line After One Year
“So we went into pints with
Eight flavors, and we got some distribution, and it was in those moments that we truly realized the marketing frenzy that was happening by some of these brands that was creating the velocities that were contributing to their revenue…”
Aug 5, 2024 negative
Bosch: The candy aisle saw no product innovation since the 1930s
“Almost every vertical by then There had been innovation. In the ice cream aisle, Halo Top Creamery was blowing up at that time. In chips, there were all sorts of things, but nobody was innovating in Canada. It was the same thing that we were enjoying that our …”