Blue Bell Creameries
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Oct 9, 2026
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Under Delaware corporate law, directors must make a good-faith effort to put in place and then monitor a board-level system for overseeing the compliance matters most central to the business.
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The Delaware Supreme Court underlined that duty in Marchand v. Barnhill in June 2019, allowing claims to proceed against directors of Blue Bell Creameries.
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Food safety was the company's defining compliance issue, yet the board had no committee or board level process for it, and no protocol for hearing about food safety reports.
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For a manufacturer or a utility, environmental permits and emissions limits can be just as central.
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Now play.
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Time and temperature are brought to you by Blue Bell Ice Cream.
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Oh, my gosh.
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It's live with Regis and Kelly.
Concerned CitizenHOST
The widespread adoption of refrigeration had yet to happen, and Listeria monocytogenes had not even been discovered.
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Things sure have changed since then, but Blue Bell Ice Cream has survived and thrived, partly thanks to the ice cream, which is delicious, and partly thanks to the steady hand of a former school teacher named E.F. Kruse.
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Under Mr. Kruse's leadership, the company navigated great depressions and world wars without laying off a soul.
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The little creamery company was beloved in Brenham.
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In 1930, E.F. Kruse officially changed the name to Blue Bell in honor of his favorite Texas wildflower.
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When E.F. Kruse suddenly died in 1951, his son Ed took over.
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Under Ed Kruse and his brother Howard, Blue Bell switched its production focus to ice cream instead of butter.
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Soon after, the company expanded carefully across the southern United States, one small territory at a time.
Brian IbbottHOST
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Brian IbbottHOST
some of the other ones on the list, uh, Black Flag, Blue Man Group, Cream-
Scott JohnsonHOST
Blue Man Group
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JohnnyAUDIENCE
Now, I didn't click on it because I was in a hurry, but then I got to thinking, you know, given all we know about Donald Trump's deregulation, massive deregulation, and how all these companies, they just cut corners or they just get slack.
JohnnyAUDIENCE
I've decided to look up the recalls for ice cream, and, uh, to my dismay and fright, I found not only was it Breyers, it was Blue Bell, and it was one or two other brands.
JohnnyAUDIENCE
And guess what the recalls were for? For one brand, it was glass particles.
Egberto WilliesHOST
Oh.
Ben RogersHOST
Something...
Ben RogersHOST
That was the Blue Bell thing from back in the, way back in the past.
Ben RogersHOST
Yeah.
Krystina RayPANELIST
Okay.
Alex JonesHOST
How do I know when Coke's got a new flavor? I see TV ads for it.
Alex JonesHOST
How do I know when Blue Bell Ice Cream's got a new flavor coming out? I see ads for it in the newspaper.
Alex JonesHOST
And I see ads everywhere about Israel's gonna get nuked and yadi-ya.
Alex JonesHOST
Oh, and they're g- s- the white supremacists are gonna kill Black people.