Melbourne ice-cream maker Dairy Bell finds new owner

By Madeleine Heffernan
Updated March 10 2015 - 10:13am, first published February 26 2015 - 2:30pm
Dairy Bell is set to open a new store near its East Malvern manufacturing plant after being bought by Bon Appetit Australia. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Dairy Bell is set to open a new store near its East Malvern manufacturing plant after being bought by Bon Appetit Australia. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Long-time customers Lorraine and Graham Browne will be among those relieved to hear the ice-cream maker has been saved. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Long-time customers Lorraine and Graham Browne will be among those relieved to hear the ice-cream maker has been saved. Photo: Paul Jeffers

Forty-five-year-old Melbourne ice-cream maker Dairy Bell has been saved from closure and will open a new store near its old East Malvern manufacturing plant.