Otto’s and Frosty Mango team up with Frosty’s Fruit Market and Frosty Mango Hut
Loved by generations of North Queenslanders, Frosty Mango’s iconic ice creams and sorbets are now available in a Townsville shopping centre. See where.
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Just in time for Summer, the delicious range of ice cream and sorbet normally reserved for road-trippers visiting the iconic Frosty Mango store north of Townsville, are now being sold from two locations in the same shopping centre.
After Frosty Mango Wholesale partnered with the Ottos Group to begin stocking 475ml retail tubs of mango-flavoured sorbet in Otto’s Markets and Pizza Riviera stores, the collaboration hit the next level over the past week.
Castletown Shopping Centre’s former Otto’s Harvest fruit store is awash with colour and deliciousness after being rebranded Frosty’s Fruit Market, while the former Good Morning Coffee Trader kiosk outside of Woolworths has become the Frosty Mango Hut.
Both stores will stock 16 of Frosty Mango’s core flavours, with elderly shoppers unable to make the journey to Frosty Mango, especially appreciative to revisit fond memories stretching back to the store’s opening in 1989.
Otto’s Group owner Don Peel said it was a joint idea between himself and Frosty Mango Wholesale chief executive Tom Freeland to co-operate with the new stores.
“The two sites work hand-in-hand together, delivering ice cream and coffee and treats. (In Frosty’s Fruit Market) we want to go into a good value bulk fresh fruit and vegetable offer, which we thought would suit the demographic much better,” Mr Peel said.
“And also have the offer of good quality local locally roasted coffee, the ice cream and sorbets from Frosty Mango, along with some cookie lines, retail ice cream and the fresh fruit and veg.”
Special promotions were planned leading into Christmas, and a prize wheel where shoppers could win free ice cream, a plush Frosty Mango man, or their shopping for free.
Mr Freeland said partnering with the satellite locations was a natural progression for the businesses.
“We’re really excited to bring a subset of the experience down to Townsville, and especially because it’s very challenging for somebody to drive round trip if they would like Frosty Mango for lunch,” Mr Freeland said.
“We just launched a cookie line … it’s called the Frosty Mango Treat House … we have three cookie flavours the moment, and we’ll be developing a mango cookie next.”
He said they would soon unveil their “character pops”, which were being developed locally in collaboration with Rising Sun FPV to create ice cream moulds of Frosty Mango’s mascot Mango Man, and his son Manny.
Castletown Centre Manager Kathy Langsford was pleased to welcome the new businesses into the fold, saying the collaboration “brings together two iconic brands that truly understand the heart and soul of North Queensland”.
For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/frostysfruitmarket.
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