Filed by Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc.
                           Pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
                                        and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
                                          of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

                                             Subject Company: New December, Inc.
                                              Commission File Number: 333-101052


On February 26, 2002, Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. made a recorded message
from its Chief Executive Officer, T. Gary Rogers, available to its employees,
excerpts of which follow:

...Speaking of historic years, let me now give you an update on the status of
our pending alliance with Nestle.

As I've explained in earlier messages, in order to get the deal with Nestle
closed, we have had to work with two Federal agencies, the SEC or Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) and the FTC or Federal Trade Commission.

The SEC has required us to complete a huge document called an S-4 Registration
Statement which gets mailed to our shareholders to explain the deal to them so
that they can vote intelligently on it. We have never had any doubt that our
shareholders would overwhelmingly approve this deal, but preparing this official
Registration Statement has been a huge undertaking. The SEC has finally given us
their approvals and we are proceeding to hold our shareholder vote on March 20,
so all of you that are shareholders will be getting this 340 page explanation of
the deal shortly.

The legal and accounting teams that have now finally completed this process
truly toiled mightily, worked weekends and pulled a number of all-nighters to
meet the SEC deadlines along the way and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude
for the work they have put in. This proved to be a much more complex and
difficult task than we anticipated at the outset and I want to extend my
heartfelt thanks to everyone who has helped get this part of the process across
the finish line.

The other part of the governmental review process involves the Federal Trade
Commission or FTC which is concerned about any potential anti-competitive
effects that may result from the deal. In a surprise to us the FTC has taken the
position that the market for superpremium ice cream has to be viewed separately
from the packaged ice cream market generally. If this position prevails, it may
become necessary to divest some of our current products to gain FTC clearance
for our deal. At this juncture we and our lawyers are discussing these issues
and the ramifications with the FTC on a daily basis.

In a related development, Unilever has announced that they may decide to sell
Ben & Jerry's through the grocer's warehouse once the Nestle alliance closes.
However under our contract with Unilever, they have to give us nine months
notice after the deal closes to take Ben & Jerry's back out of our distribution
system.

All of these considerations are inter-related and make it complicated and
really quite difficult to now to say exactly what will happen and when. However,
we are hopeful that these issues will be resolved over the next month or so.
But, at this point it is hard to see how our deal will get closed before the end
of March because it is possible that our negotiations with the FTC could drag on
until then. . .