I am sad for the employees that worked hard for the company. I am not sad for Christina or any of the Yarnells. They deserve what they get by the way they treated their employees, with no respect or regards to the hard work. I worked for a company that shut their doors and they had the respect for their employees to give notice. Yarnells didnt even give them notice and they are not even honoring the vacation time that the people earned. Wrong, so wrong!!!

I worked there for 16 years only to have the next generation come in with out a clue as to how to run a company, It was like handing the keys to your classic car to a 5 year old and expecting everything to work out. The only reason this company failed was due to greed and spending more than you make mentality, Luckily I had the sense to see this comming and got out last August but I still had many friends there that stayed so for them I wish them all the best, and for Christina Yarnell you got what you wanted Ceo of a company with absolutely no experience New BMW's every year a desk you could put your feet up on and watch all the little people try to try to keep it all together,So way to go may you never be in control of any other peoples lives again.

the best ever is the banana split,can't beat it... gosh i will miss it... need to go get some before it's all gone...

Blame the President, Blame Walmart, why not blame the people that didn't make the right decisions. Remember riding in on 36 for years and seeing the factory. All the way back in the 60's. I sure will miss that great product. As for the down size it didn't bother me. I'll always pat more for the best.

that just sucks for them folks that lost theyre jobs. But u can thank our pres for that.

I know for a fact that they had a deal with Wal-Mart and had a bunch of boxes produced and then Walmart didn't hold up their end of the deal leaving them and the producers with many many many boxes.Not to mention their regular inventory they had produced. It's amazing how people can run a privately owned business in the ground that had been in business for so many years. They tried to come up with too many flavors and screwed that up. If it ain't broke then don't try to fix it. They broke it now it sits broken.

Ya can't blame the Obama Administration for this!! But you can blame POOR MANAGEMENT!! I worked for the company a number of years and seen it coming: How can you keep a company afloat when your raw inventory was never correct, had extra product in warehouse and continue to pile more of the same product, waste wasn't managed correctly (we threw entirely to much product away) and don't mention DOWN TIME!! How in the world can you be down for 2-5 hours (per day) on something as simple as a printer!! Get people off the clock!! Man made footbaths (Chemical Waste) chemical stayed on even when the plant was down!! The list goes on and on So don't blame Obama this BLAME POOR MANAGEMENT!!

@jmscho: How is Yarnell business closing Obama's fault? Here I'll copy/paste this snip directly from the article: Sales of ice cream and related products have steadily declined over the past five years across the United States according to those at Yarnell's. Aggressive pricing from larger companies has made it more difficult for smaller companies to compete. I'm not pro Obama or anything but this is clearly not his fault.

Tim stand that ground!!!! We all can see how the Obama did his part, his administration is the cause and we are all feeling its effect. Sad to see a 75 year old American company close its doors. How American is good old fashion ice cream, guess if Washington had it there way it would be imported from Mexico, China, our anywhere else but in America.

Wow, the HomeStyle Vanilla will no longer be available. Believe it or not this is actually the only ice cream I really like. Ahh look like I'll be eating healthier sooner than expected. Hope the employees are not out of work for long and can recover soon. I agree w/ the other poster that it's ashame that large companies can get nearly a trillion dollars in bailout funds, but they can't help the smaller companies keep afloat?