THE former owners of Greenock’s Funworld could face legal action over the branding for the new ice cream parlour they have set up in the wake of the soft play centre’s collapse.

Chris and Tom Glancey, from Saltcoats, have been accused of ‘completely ripping off’ an established brand name for their latest venture.

The pair shut the Fort Matilda facility last month after racking up nearly £100,000 worth of debt — then opened an ice cream shop in Glasgow called Minted.

But the move has been slammed on social media by a clothing business of the same name — and its bosses are now threatening legal action against the brothers.

The owners of the original Minted said in a public Facebook post: “It transpires that our brand name, logo and identity has been completely ripped off by a new startup business.

“To the casual consumer, it is very clear that everything from our name, stylised font and colour scheme has been almost carbon copied from the brand that we have carefully and painstakingly taken seven years to build.”

“They have even ripped off our ‘3 letters & 3 letters’ styling of our logo in other marketing material, which we have had in our branding going way back to 2013.”

Our sister paper, the Greenock Telegraph, recently revealed how the Glanceys received a £25,000 coronavirus business support grant from the Scottish Government before collapsing Funworld and blaming the pandemic.

It then emerged that they were already in £98,000 worth of debt to landlord Golden Casket (Greenock) Ltd for rent and service charges stretching back to last summer when they took the decision not to reopen just as as lockdown restrictions were being eased.

The closure of Funworld and its associated Laser Matrix facility has resulted in the loss of 24 jobs.

Chris Glancey, 31, told the Telegraph that the £25,000 business support grant went to paying off suppliers — but Golden Casket owner Crawford Rae says his business didn’t receive a penny of it.

Mr Glancey has categorically refuted any suggestion that government money was used in any way to help set up Minted, adding: “We’re not trying to shaft anyone.”

Now he and younger sibling Tom’s ice cream shop in the West End of Glasgow is under fire from the original Minted.

In their Facebook post, bosses said: “We have contacted the new shop several times and after their short and brief first response, they are not responding to us whatsoever.

Minted – a clothes retailer – say they will take legal action against the Glanceys if required.

They said: “There is a clear attempt to either clone our brand, or to associate themselves with us, neither of which we will stand for.”

The Greenock Telegraph contacted Chris Glancey for comment.

He did not respond.