Discovery Ice Cream Franchise News

April 01, 2008 // Franchising.com // (Boston, MA) - The Robotic Industries Association has announced that Allan Jones, CEO of Puffin Innovations, headquartered in Kingsport, TN will be providing the keynote address at this year's "Robots 2008: What's Next" conference. Taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA June 10-12, Jones will be speaking on Discovery Ice Cream's recent groundbreaking innovations. "One of the things that has given us the greatest satisfaction is watching a child – a child who, like many, has never seen a robot before – interact and have fun with an accessible robot," says Jones. The Puffin Innovations CEO will tell the story – for the first time publicly – about the insights that led to their revolutionary innovation of a robotic ice cream machine that allows customers to design their own 6-layer ice cream and candy treat and watch a robot prepare it...

April 01, 2008 // Franchising.com // (Tokyo, Japan) - Puffin Innovations, the robotics innovation company and parent company of Discovery Ice Cream (both headquartered in Kingsport, TN), is heading to Japan. Japan is where the majority of robotics companies are headquartered and always an early adopter of technologies. Puffin Innovations and Discovery Ice Cream plan to utilize Japan as a jumping-off point for the rest of Asia as well. "We are working to finalize all of the details in the upcoming weeks. This will give us a local presence in a very important market. This also puts us closer to key innovators and suppliers" says Allan Jones, CEO of Puffin Innovations.

Puffin Innovations is a robotics technology company headquartered in Kingsport, TN...