UV0273 BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE Jerry: What’s interesting about me and my role in the company is I’m just this guy on the street. A person who’s fairly conventional, mainstream, accepting of life as it is. Ben: Salt of the earth. A man of the people. Jerry: But then I’ve got this friend, Ben, who challenges everything. It’s against his nature to do anything the same way anyone’s ever done it before. To which my response is always, “I don’t think that’ll work.” Ben: To which my
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. – B: Facing Acquisition Abstract In December 1999 Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenberg confronted three offers for their 17-year-old firm. Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. had grown from $2M in 1983 to $237M as the year ended. Growth rates had significantly dampened, however, a result of changing U.S. consumer preferences for lower cholesterol foods and competition. Jerry Greenberg had stepped out of day-to-day management of the firm some years before. Ben Cohen stepped
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Ben and Jerry’s company I. Background Ben and Jerry’s company was established in 1978 that renovated from gas station in Burlington, Vermont. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends from New York who created the band name. It is well known as a globally premium ice cream. In 2000, the company became a subsidiary of Unilever Company, which is a big change and more challenging of company faced. At the same year, the company was expanding their social mission, brand integrity, and product
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Press Release For Immediate Release ChunkFest is back with a dollop of Fairness Singapore, 19 September 2011 – Ben & Jerry’s ChunkFest, indubitably Singapore’s best loved ice cream extravaganza, returns this October 15th 2011, from 2pm till 10pm at the Promontory @ Marina Bay. Ice cream moo-niacs will be delighted to learn that this year’s ChunkFest, we’ve packed in a record-breaking 32 extraordin-dairy flavours – including crowd pleasers not currently available in Singapore – and heaps of
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Ben and Jerry’s Ben and Jerry’s Homemade was founded in 1978 in an old gas station in Burlington, Vermont. The company was started due to the owners (Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield) willingness to make a business successful. By early 2000, the company itself had become bigger than they expected with over 170 stores (scoop shops) across the United States and with international ties with inside supermarkets. The annual sales themselves had grown by $77 million to the company’s new equity of $237
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Introduction • Founded by two Brooklyn school mates Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in Vermont, 1978. • Combination of high fat content, chunky ingredients and catchy flavor names helped to create its own demand. • Sales grew with time and the company went public in 1984. • Besides being a fun company, it was determined to be socially responsible with an objective of caring capitalism. • By 1994, sales exceeded $150million and the company had 600 employees with a global distribution
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Ben and Jerry’s is a reputable and well established company known for its high quality ice cream products and commitment to social responsibility. As the company continues to grow, an analysis of the external and internal forces shaping the ice cream industry and the company needs to be examined in order to prepare a feasible recommendation. Competition – Dreyers and Haagen-Dazs, intense, many numerous competitors, cost of switching brands is low, competitors use tactics to force rivals’ production
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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream began as a small “scoop shop” in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. From the company’s inception more than thirty years ago, their plan was to provide quality ice cream while also creating a company that was socially conscious about the world and its environment. Within only a few years of opening, the demand for their ice cream grew and the company started making deliveries to local grocery stores and restaurants. In 1983, their first out-of-state franchise opened in Portland
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