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49 Below Ice Cream is a private, single-location artisan ice cream retailer based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The company produces and sells small-batch, house-made ice cream and related frozen desserts directly to walk-in customers at its Victoria storefront, operating under a direct-to-consumer retail model with no online ordering, delivery, or wholesale distribution channels. Its core product is in-house manufactured ice cream positioned as a premium, handcrafted alternative to mass-produced commercial ice cream, targeting local residents and visitors in Victoria BC who seek artisanal frozen desserts. The business has no disclosed technology platform, no app, no API integrations, and no modular product structure beyond the single retail offering. No management team, ownership structure, funding history, partnerships, or financial metrics are publicly available, and the company has no disclosed certifications, patents, or regulatory actions on record.

Name

ice cream

Website

https://49below.ca

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

49 Below Ice Cream is a single-location, privately held artisan ice cream shop in Victoria, British Columbia that produces and sells small-batch, house-made frozen desserts directly to walk-in retail customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisan Ice Cream

NAICS

Ice Cream and Frozen Dessert Manufacturing (31152)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Ice Cream & Gelato Shops (THAFAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ice Cream & Refrigerated Desserts (CRADACAE)

Keywords

• Small-batch ice cream
• Artisan ice cream
• House-made frozen desserts
• Retail ice cream shop
• Handcrafted ice cream

Headquarters

HQ city

Victoria

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Retail Ice Cream Sales: Retail ice cream sales directly to consumers at the Victoria BC location. Customers purchase ice cream products in-person at the shop for immediate consumption.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

49 Below Ice Cream operates a single retail storefront in Victoria, British Columbia, where it produces and sells small-batch, house-made ice cream and related frozen desserts. All ice cream is prepared in-house using traditional artisan methods rather than sourced pre-made. Products are sold directly to walk-in customers for on-site consumption, with no online ordering, delivery, or wholesale channels indicated.

Product overview

49 Below Ice Cream is a single-location artisan ice cream shop offering small-batch, house-made ice cream. The company operates as a single unified retail product offering with no modular product structure or technology platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• 49 Below Ice Cream (House-Made Ice Cream) Small-batch, house-made ice cream and related frozen desserts prepared on-site at the company's Victoria, BC retail location and sold directly to walk-in customers for immediate consumption.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Regional players

• Amy's Ice Creams: Artisan Texas-based ice cream chain with house-made small-batch production and a strong single-brand retail identity. Comparable craft positioning and retail scoop-shop model, though US-centric in footprint.
• Mitchell's Ice Cream: Long-established regional artisan ice cream maker and scoop shop with in-house small-batch production. Comparable craft-retail model with a strong local brand identity, operating in a different geography from 49 Below.

Direct peers

• Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams: Specialty ice cream scoop shop chain operating company-owned retail locations with small-batch, in-house produced ice cream. Highly comparable artisan-retail model with similar differentiation strategy.
• Baskin-Robbins: Global ice cream specialty chain with a large Canadian retail footprint. Operates in the same retail ice cream shop category, though with a mass-market rather than artisanal positioning.
• Cold Stone Creamery: Franchised ice cream scoop shop chain mixing ice cream on a frozen stone at point of sale. Comparable retail format and on-premise customization experience to 49 Below's in-house model.
• Menchie's Frozen Yogurt: Canadian-founded self-serve frozen dessert franchise. Operates the same small-footprint retail dessert shop format, competing for the same discretionary consumer spend in BC and across Canada.
• Marble Slab Creamery: Canadian-founded ice cream franchise chain with made-on-premises ice cream served in a retail scoop-shop format. Directly competes with 49 Below in the Canadian market on the made-in-shop experience.
• Salt & Straw: Multi-location artisanal ice cream maker with house-made small-batch production and a similar in-store retail model. Directly comparable on craft positioning, in-house production, and premium customer experience.

Emerging players

• Sweet Republic: Independent artisan ice cream scoop shop producing small-batch ice cream in-house. Comparable niche, single-brand positioning and craft production philosophy, though at a smaller scale than multi-region peers.

Broad incumbents

• Häagen-Dazs Shops: Brand-operated and licensed Häagen-Dazs scoop shops in Canada offering premium branded ice cream in a café setting. Competes on the premium retail ice cream experience, though powered by a global CPG brand rather than in-house production.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/49-below-ice-cream-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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