Broken Arrow community standing behind suspended Blue Bell plant - Tulsa World
1907: The Brenham Creamery Co. opens and purchases excess cream from local dairy farmers and sell butter to people in the Brenham, Texas area. 1930: Company is renamed Blue Bell Creameries after the Texas Bluebell, a native wildflower that thrives in summer. of Brenham, Texas, opens a temporary distribution branch in Broken Arrow to unload ice cream products from large trucks and distribute them to area grocery stores. 1991: Ground breaking ceremony takes place for the $10 million, 100,000 square-foot Broken Arrow plant at East Houston Street (81st Street) and Oklahoma 51. 1992: Broken Arrow plant opens. 2003: Blue Bell in Broken Arrow hosts its first Taste of Summer event. 2007: Blue Bell announces plans to expand production and installs a blast freezer that freezes ice cream quickly. This allows the plant to add three more ice cream production lines -- two for three-ounce cups and the other for three-gallon containers. 2011: Broken Arrow site hosts its first Blue Bell annual sales meeting, attracting more than 300 sales employees and senior executives of the Texas company to the area. Source: www.tulsaworld.com
