Tip Top

Tip Top is an ice cream brand founded in 1936 in Wellington, New Zealand, and now owned by Froneri . It was formerly known as Fonterra Brands (Tip Top) Ltd, a subsidiary of the Fonterra Co-operative Group based in Auckland, New Zealand. In 1936 Albert Hayman and Len Malaghan opened their first ice cream parlour in Manners Street, Wellington, followed in the same year by two more milk bars, one in Wellington and one in Dunedin. The Tip Top Ice Cream Company was registered as a manufacturing company in 1936. The name Tip Top was either chosen after Malaghan gave a Māori boy in a train an ice cream, and after being asked what he thought of it, the boy said "Oh, it's tip top", or that Hayman and Malaghan heard a person on a train say his meal was "tip top". By 1938 Tip Top was manufacturing its own ice cream and was successfully operating stores in the lower half of the North Island, and in Nelson and Blenheim.

Source: Wikipedia