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Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet.Founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, the company went from a single ice cream parlor to a multinational brand over the course of a few decades.
Jerry Greenfield grew up on Long Island, to a family of Jewish roots. [4] He attended Merrick Avenue Junior High School, where he met Ben Cohen in 1963. [5] Greenfield and Cohen both attended Calhoun High School and remained friends until they both graduated and left Long Island to attend college.
Cohen in 2012 with business partner Jerry Greenfield. In 1977, Cohen decided to go into business with his old friend Jerry Greenfield, and in May of the next year, the two men opened Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Parlor in Burlington, Vermont. They initially intended to start a bagel business, but found the equipment costs prohibitive and ...
Ben & Jerry's and Unilever are no longer the perfect match they seemed to be 20 years ago. In 2000, Unilever bought the progressive ice cream company, hoping to bottle some of its feel-good vibes ...
The spinoff would end an unusual corporate partnership that began in 2000 when Unilever bought Ben & Jerry's for $326 million. At the time of the purchase, Ben & Jerry's stipulated that it would ...
While grassroots demonstrations were growing, Garret John LoPorto, directed protesters to engage what he said was the source of the problem - Wall Street.He began a shareholder petition on the web site, www.savebenjerry.com, urging people to buy shares in Ben & Jerry's so they could use their shareholder status to vote against the Unilever acquisition.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, are unveiling a new ice cream flavor, “Kamala’s Coconut Jubilee,” as part of a get-out-the-vote initiative to elect Vice ...
Currently, other varieties of Heath bar-based confections include Archway Cookies' Heath Cookie, Heath Bar Klondike bars, Baskin-Robbins' Heath Bar Shake, Dairy Queen's Heath Bar Blizzard and Heath Bar flavored varieties of ice cream with a coffee or vanilla ice cream base. [17] Ben and Jerry's produced a Heath Bar Crunch ice cream, which was ...