Who makes Kirkland Signature Ice Cream Bars (Vanilla Dipped in Chocolate with Roasted Almonds), 3.1 fl oz, 18-count?

Query for product_description containing 'Kirkland' + 'ice cream' returns zero records ever — no recall has named a co-packer for any Kirkland ice cream product. The route works when there is an event (the October 2024 Kirkland butter recall named its maker outright), so this is a genuine absence, not a dead route.

The largest recent US frozen-novelty co-packer event — Fieldbrook Foods' (Dunkirk, NY; acquired by Wells Enterprises 2019) Listeria recall of chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream bars across ~20 store brands — contains zero mentions of Costco or Kirkland in the archived FDA notice (https://web.archive.org/web/20251214071124/https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/fieldbrook-foods-corporation-announces-extension-voluntary-recall-orange-cream-bars-and-chocolate). No recall-route link between the big novelty co-packers and the Kirkland bars.

RECAP search for "Kirkland Signature" + "ice cream bars" surfaces consumer mislabeling suits over the bars' chocolate coating — Karlinski v. Costco Wholesale Corp. (N.D. Ill., 1:21-cv-03813, 2021) and Puri v. Costco Wholesale Corp. (N.D. Cal., 5:21-cv-01202, 2021) — but both name Costco alone; no filing found names the bars' co-packer.

Archived costcobusinessdelivery.com listing for the 18-count bars (snapshot 2023-09-20, https://web.archive.org/web/20230920152653/https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kirkland-signature-ice-cream-bars%2C-3.1-fl-oz%2C-18-ct.product.100336553.html) discloses no manufacturer — distributed-by-Costco labeling only. No Costco FAQ naming the maker found.

No article or executive statement names the maker of the retail freezer-case bars. The only executive statement about any Costco ice cream bar is Humboldt Creamery CEO Rich Ghilarducci's 2006 North Coast Journal interview about the (since-discontinued) food-court bars: Humboldt supplied 'all the ice cream mix: the milk and the sugar,' but the bars themselves were 'made at another company' he did not name (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20061115141952/http://www.northcoastjournal.com/110206/food1102.html). That is a different, discontinued product — and even it had a separate, unnamed co-packer. Fan press (costco97.com) states outright that the makers of Kirkland ice cream SKUs other than the vanilla tub have not been revealed.

Tier-6 claims are contradictory: content mills assert Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream (Froneri) without evidence; others extend the vanilla tub's Humboldt Creamery attribution to the bars without any source covering the bars; and the widespread 'Häagen-Dazs copycat' framing (Taste of Home, Tasting Table, Daily Meal, 2024–25) is about resemblance, not manufacture — Daily Meal's side-by-side comparison concluded the two do not appear to share a maker. No consistent name emerges.

The deterministic dairy check that resolves the Kirkland vanilla tub (plant code 06-1187 → Humboldt Creamery) has no documented equivalent for the bars: none of the reviewed sources shows a plant code from the bars' box. Highest-value missing evidence: a photographed two-part plant code from a current box, resolved through the IMS list.