The only trade magazine for the UK ice cream industry.
Four editions a year, around nine hundred subscribers and more than eighty years as the voice of the alliance. Now available as a digital edition alongside print.
Eighty years as the mouthpiece of the trade.
Ice Cream magazine has been published by the alliance for over eighty years. It is the only trade magazine serving the United Kingdom's £1.4 billion ice cream industry, and it goes to around nine hundred subscribers four times a year.
Every edition carries technical guidance, market data, member news, competition results and features from across the sector. Editorials and press releases from members are published free of charge as a membership benefit, subject to fair use.
The digital edition is now available, so members can read on any device and search back through the archive.
What is inside.
Legislation and compliance
What has changed, what it means in practice and what you need to do about it before it applies.
Market and category data
How the season performed, where the growth is and what consumers are buying.
Member news and spotlights
Free editorials and press releases from members, plus profiles of businesses across the trade.
Competition results
Golden Scoop classes, star ratings and Parlour of the Year finalists.
Products and services
The full supplier listing, the first place buyers and the head office team look.
Classified advertising
Equipment for sale, vehicles, recruitment and business opportunities. Free for members.
Back editions, member access.
Winter 2025
Season review, the run up to the first Golden Scoop Awards and allergen guidance.
Autumn 2025
Seasonal trends, flavour innovation and the curse of the seasonal business.
Summer 2025
Healthy work and life balance in the workplace, plus the full products and services listing.
Spring 2025
Ice cream against lollies, the great debate, and gelato technique from two makers head to head.
Members publish editorials free.
Full page editorials of five hundred to six hundred words and half page pieces of two hundred and fifty to three hundred words are free of charge to members, subject to fair use. Non members pay £300 and £150 plus VAT.
Get the magazine every quarter.
Included with every membership, in print and digital, alongside advice, the handbook and free competition entries.