Klondike

Commitment to quality - for 80 plus years 

Millions of Americans have come to love the Klondike Bar’s delicious variety of frozen novelty products with the distinctive "polar bear" logo and foil wrapper. 

History – "What would you do for a Klondike bar?"

The origins of the Klondike Bar can be traced back to Switzerland and the Isaly family - a family known for fine dairy products. William Isaly founded the Isaly Dairy Company around the beginning of the 1900s. William had four sons: Chester, Samuel, Charles and Henry and all had a hand in the family business.

The company history credits the invention of the Klondike Bar to Chester but his brother Sam claims it was their father’s invention. According to a 1922 article in the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator, Chester gave the newspaper staff several dozen Klondike bars to try. 

It is believed that the Klondike Bar was named after the Klondike River in Canada’s west central Yukon Territory. The Klondike River was the site of the 1890s Gold Rush.

The original Klondike Bar was handmade by dipping square slices of ice cream into pans of rich, delicious Swiss milk chocolate. The family produced the bars in Ohio just outside of Youngstown and in Pittsburgh. There also were Isaly Dairy Stores - where the bars and other dairy products were sold. By the 1940s, the Isaly family had seven dairy plants that supplied more than 300 Isaly dairy stores. Klondike Bars were sold in all of these stores.

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