100+ years & counting.
1915, Pietro Equi left Coreglia Antelminelli in Tuscany to seek his fortune and got as far as Hamilton, where he started a cafe in 1922.
The rest, as they say, is history…
1915
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Pietro Equi arrived in Hamilton at the age of 15.
1922
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Pietro Equi opened his own cafe at 6/8 Burnbank Road, and began crafting his beautiful creamy Italian ice cream to warm the hearts of the Scots.
1958
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Robert Equi graduated from Glasgow University and joined the family business with his brother Vincent & father Pietro.
1965
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As the business continued to grow, Roberto took over and Equi’s moved across the road to 9-11 Burnbank Road knocking two shops into one making room for a new restaurant, takeaway and parlour.
1970
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Robert Equi bought some fancy new ice cream equipment to take our production up a notch.
1972
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We celebrated our 70th Birthday – Sophie Equi was born and to celebrate we launched Sophie’s Crunch (which is still one of our top flavours – now known as Honeycomb Crunch!)
1984
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Equi’s became Winners of the first Scottish National Ice Cream Competition.
1988
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David Equi graduated in Business from the University of Edinburgh, and joined the family firm working on new ideas with his dad.
2012
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David grew our wholesale business and we reached 250 customers, including Asda!
2018
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We secured our biggest retail contract to date with the Co-op! Double Cream Vanilla and Isle of Skye Sea Salt & Caramel listed across the whole of Scotland.
2021
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David’s daughter Alex graduated in Business from Glasgow University and joined the family business in sales & marketing.
2022
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We moved to our state of the art factory & head office, making our facility 45x the size of our previous factory!
2023
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We welcomed HRH The Princess Royal to celebrate our 101st birthday. We made a bespoke Salted Caramel Cookie Dough ice cream for her to trial.
2024
We launched our new iconic branding, reflecting the heart and soul of Equi’s – Italian craft with a Scottish accent