little jimmy s italian ice type private founded 1957 headquarters iselin new jersey usa products italian ice and push carts website http italianice.net little jimmy s italian ices is an italian ice manufacturing firm headquartered in iselin new jersey . pushcart owners around the country purchase little jimmy s italian ices from the ten employee firm running their carts as independent businesses . 1 history edit soon after emigrating from sicily in 1932 albert mauro began making granita in his new home of elizabeth new jersey . 2 working with one machine in his home mauro made the dessert from his family recipe and loaded up his truck . he drove the streets of elizabeth and linden new jersey and parked outside the general motors plant at the beginning and end of every shift . eventually mauro added three more trucks and two more machines . 3 2 in 2005 little jimmy s began offering its products nationwide as an italian ice concession business . it offers entrepreneur packages ranging from italian ice to pushcarts and trucks . 2 in 2014 little jimmy s was purchased by maglione s italian ice of iselin new jersey . citation needed see also edit list of frozen dessert brands references edit klein karen e. businessweek.com 13 march 2009 . the entrepreneurs born of recession . accessed 26 august 2010 . a b c kolman david a. 1 december 2007 . refrigeratedtrans.com local to national distribution . accessed 13 september 2010 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name trans defined multiple times with different content see the help page . little jimmy s italian ices official site . accessed 26 august 2010 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title little jimmy % 27s italian ices & oldid 742059600 categories brand name frozen dessertsitalian american culture in new jerseycompanies established in 1957companies disestablished in 2014food and drink companies established in 1957hidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference namesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2015use dmy dates from september 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 october 2016 at 12 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view