Top Entrepreneurs: Ice cream company owner scoops out winning formula

Matt Eastman is building off sweet success to gain big time clients and expand Lickity Splits Ice Cream across Florida. One key: relentless determination.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 11:00 a.m. May 23, 2019
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Lori Sax. Matt Eastman, proprietor and president of Lickity Splits Ice Cream, says the company has broken into the Orlando and Fort Myers markets and is getting ready to head to the east coast of Florida.
Lori Sax. Matt Eastman, proprietor and president of Lickity Splits Ice Cream, says the company has broken into the Orlando and Fort Myers markets and is getting ready to head to the east coast of Florida.
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Matt Eastman and his wife, Jessica Eastman, went out on a recent Saturday night to make ice cream deliveries to clients.

“We were in a couple of the scoop shops, and you see people lined up out the door,” Eastman says. “They say, ‘This is great ice cream. Have you tried this? This is amazing.’”

 

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