Cookie Puss heads west as ice cream chain targets L.A.(Marketplace) From: Los Angeles Business Journal | Date: April 19, 2004| Author: Fixmer, Andy | COPYRIGHT 2004 CBJ, L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

COOKIE Puss and Fudgie the Whale, names familiar to East Coast transplants, may soon be moving to town.

Carvel Corp., founded in 1934 by the late Tom Carvel as a single ice cream shop in New York, plans a large Southern California push that will involve issuing franchise licenses within the next three years for as many as 40 stores in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura counties, according to Geoff Hill, the company's senior vice president of franc...