OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc. has promoted Rhonda Ramlo, 46, to Executive Vice President of Sales and Distribution. Ramlo replaces Tom Delaplane, a 23-year Dreyer's veteran who is departing the ice cream company he helped build into a $2 billion business. Ramlo joined Dreyer's in 1994 as director of strategic sales development. She was promoted to division manager in 1999, to VP and Division manager in 2004 and to Senior Vice President of Sales in 2005. Ramlo has led the company's strategic efforts to build its business with non-grocery and new channel customers including convenience, club and drug stores. Prior to joining Dreyer's, Ramlo spent eight-and-a-half years with The Clorox Company, where she advanced to group marketing manager of the food division. Ramlo has a BA degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard University. Ramlo will lead Dreyer's 4,300-employee Sales and Distribution organization. Under the leadership of Delaplane and Ramlo, Dreyer's has built a Direct Store Service (DSS) network that delivers ice cream and frozen snacks directly from Dreyer's manufacturing and distribution facilities to retail and food service outlets across the United States. Dreyer's considers its DSS network a major competitive advantage in the ice cream industry, enabling the company to ensure the highest level of product quality from manufacturing, through delivery, to in-store shelf presentation to consumers. Dreyer's DSS network, which has sales employees stocking store freezer shelves up to 7 days a week, enables Dreyer's to customize deliveries ensuring that each retail outlet carries the Dreyer's brands and flavors that are in highest demand in that particular area. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries manufacture and distribute a full spectrum of ice cream and frozen dessert products. Brands of frozen dessert products currently manufactured or distributed by Dreyer's in the United States include Grand, Slow Churned(R), Dibs(R), Haagen- Dazs(R), Nestle(R) Drumstick(R), Nestle Crunch(R), Nestle(R) Butterfinger(R), Nestle(R) Toll House(R), Nestle(R) Carnation(R), Nestle(R) Push-Up(R), Frosty Paws(R), Fruit Bars, Starbucks(R) and The Skinny Cow(R). The company's premium products are marketed under the Dreyer's brand name throughout the Western states and Texas, and under the Edy's(R) brand name throughout the remainder of the United States. Internationally, the Dreyer's brand extends to select markets in the Far East and the Edy's brand extends to the Caribbean and South America. For more information on the company, please visit http://www.dreyersinc.com/ . NOTE: The Starbucks trademark is owned by Starbucks U.S. Brands, LLC and is licensed to the Starbucks Ice Cream Partnership, a joint venture partnership between Dreyer's and Starbucks Holding Company. In the U.S. the Haagen-Dazs trademark is sub-licensed to Dreyer's by Nestle. DATASOURCE: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. CONTACT: Dori Sera Bailey of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., +1-510 601-4241 Web site: http://www.dreyersinc.com/

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