27/01/2024
WARNING TRADER IN BRISTOL PLEASE SHARE. Hi Guys, I have had to issue this warning to businesses in Bristol that there is no connection between my factory Jam Inns Ice in Bristol in the top pictures & the... graffiti'd shed below branded Ice Mill that has copied an almost identical image of our logo with there 'company name'.
Background, Jam Inns Ice Delivery in Bristol I started back in 2011 the company has been running longer. We are a high volume ice manufacturing factory to supply the hospitalty industry, bars, restaurants, festivals & events. We have built up over the years a huge following of fantastic corporate clients & as a snapshot of a typical weekend in the summer up to 250,000 people could be partying with a drink in hand with our ice. We supply from small coffee shops, up to the global chains in the South West & South Wales & of course the biggest UK festivals. Our facility is powered over summer mostly by solar energy & we have spent years developing & building our company & brand & are the largest ice manufacturer in the South West of the UK.
Bottom Picture.... This is a back alley shed in Bristol where a company called Ice Mill started making ice back in 2021. A man called Jayanti Patel started it with a man Karman Ahmad. They copy & pasted text & pictures from other ice businesses around the world & word for word at the time copied the intro text from our website just change the name 'Jam Inns Ice' to 'Ice Mill' & made ice inside that garage. I went to see Jayanti at the time & got him to remove some of the text. I had some customers say to me some guy came round & said 'where do you get ice from' & they said 'Jam Inns Ice' & the guy said... 'yes,, that's us, we've rebranded'. Shocking the customer said they laughed it off but had to tell me. At the time I believe this is just an issue thats going to go away because I don't think customers would actually believe the website was real. Jayanti Patel has now left & Karman Ahmed is just doing this on his own. I had a few businesses in Bristol contact me before Christmas telling me they ordered from a guy & he has disappeared. I obviously knew who they were talking about & it certainly wasn't a surprise.
A couple of days ago I saw him back driving around Bristol in his dented up unbranded van & so I popped on to the website to find quite shockingly he's now copied almost identically my company logo just with his company name rather than mine but formatted identically. This is genuinely quite shocking the guy seems to have absolutely no shame whatsoever but it does present me an issue now where, they have been in the past going round telling customers they are Jam Inns Ice but rebranded & now he's copied the logo it's certainly concerning that customers could definitely be duped into believing this story.
So I feel I have no option but to publically confirm my company Jam Inns Ice has absolutely no connection to Ice Mill in Bristol which makes ice in the garage pictured below. Please be aware if you run a food business in Bristol or surrounding area & this man comes into your business saying he is Jam Inns Ice 'rebranded' this is not true & the ice is NOT made in our factory or any factory for that matter it is coming from the shed in the bottom right picture.
I have reported this to Bristol City Council & to Bristol Trading Standards & I have contacted & spoken to Karman & told him to remove the branding image but his response was just 'I not know what your talking about' 'no problem my friend' 'no problem for me'. So I have given him 14 days to remove this & then I will have to take court action against the business.
Please share if you run a hospitality business in Bristol & are buying in food products like ice that Ice Mill in the bottom picture is not clearly as described on the website but also of absolutely no association to my Bristol factory & Bristol City Council, Environmental Health & Trading Standards have all been informed so please consider the implications of getting ice from a trader like this.
Jam Inns Ice is the largest ice supplier in South West England & South Wales. We manufacture ice ons
