United States | Southern living

From crop to pop

What the rise of a vertically integrated lolly-maker says about urban trends

Competition royally licked
|ATLANTA AND WINSTON, GEORGIA

WHEN Steven Carse began hawking ice lollies on a corner in Atlanta, one of his best customers was a lawyer representing Unilever. Mr Carse’s brand name was King of Pops, but his marketing used the word Popsicle—a trademark indirectly acquired by the conglomerate from a Californian who, as a child, accidentally invented the delicacy on a wintry night in 1905. The lawyer would serve him “cease and desist” notices, Mr Carse recalls. But she always bought some pops, too.

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