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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.
Ben & Jerry’s initial lawsuit, filed in the US Southern District of New York, alleged Unilever silenced its attempts to publicly support Palestinian refugees and resolutions to end military aid ...
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 ...
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 ...
MoveOn, a progressive public policy advocacy group, is partnering with Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield to release a special Kamala Harris-inspired ice cream flavor.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen professed Graeter's was one of his favorite ice cream shops as well. [58] Other notable fans of the company include singer Harry Connick Jr, and food writer David Rosengarten of Rosengarten Report. [59] Graeter's ice cream won "Best Sweet" at the 2014 Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival. [60]
Ben & Jerry's has positioned itself as socially conscious since Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield founded the company in a renovated gas station in 1978. It kept that mission after Unilever acquired ...