Current Market Conditions Competitive Analysis Brian C. Cassidy, Jenna Tanner, Carla D’Amato, and Courtney Goddard ECO 365 April 13, 2015 David Copeland Norcross IV Introduction Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is a favorite and beloved American treat throughout the United States and 33 countries around the globe. Since Ben & Jerry’s are focused on providing a delicious and wide variety of flavors, they have recently decided to expand their products and develop and introduce a new product onto the
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BEN&JERRY’S HOMEMADE CASE SUMMARY Ben&Jerry’ Homemade company, which is a leading distributor of super-premium ice cream, frozen yogurts, and sorbets across the United States and overseas. It soon became popular for its innovative flavours, made from fresh Vermont milk and cream. The company have enjoyed long-term success as a result of their social responsibility and orientation, which was balanced with product and economic objectives. Since they are trying to enhance the social life for community
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FREEZING OUT BEN & JERRY: CORPORATE LAW AND THE SALE OF A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ICON Antony Page* & Robert A. Katz**† INTRODUCTION The perfect duo. Ice cream and chunks. Business and social change. Ben and Jerry.1 Nobody wants to end up like Ben and Jerry’s, where soon after a multinational acquired it, key facets of its social mission were cut from the company.2 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. was once the darling of proponents of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.3 It was a for-profit
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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 Ice Cream From a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont, to far-off places with names we sometimes mispronounce, the journey that began in 1978 with 2 guys and the ice cream business they built is as legendary as the ice cream is euphoric. In 1978 Ben and Jerry took a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State. After that they made a $12,000 investment and $4,000 of it was borrowed. When the 1 year anniversary came from their ice cream shop they decided
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Justin Sunwoong Choi BUSM 431 Brother Huff 10/18/2012 Ben & Jerry’s - Japan 1. Overview of the case * Perry Odak had meeting with Masahiko Iida who is the president of Seven-Eleven Japan to resolve conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the Japan market and, if so, how. Ben & Jerry’s was established by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who were school mates before, when they were in mid 20s. They were growing between 1982 and 1990 but they had suffered
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EDUCATOR INSIGHTS: BEN & JERRY'S -- JAPAN: STRATEGIC DECISION BY AN EMERGENT GLOBAL MARKETER By: Hagen, James M., Journal of International Marketing, ISSN 1069-031X, 2000, Vol. 8, Issue 2 THE JAPAN ENTRY DECISION It was fall of 1997, and Perry Odak was just entering his tenth month as chief executive officer (CEO) of the famous ice cream company named for its offbeat founders, Ben & Jerry's. Far from company headquarters in Vermont, he was setting down his chopsticks in a quiet Tokyo restaurant
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and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) was the major contributor of the visual and special effects for Pearl Harbor. ILM has made their mark in the movie industry with such films as: Jurassic Park, Artificial Intelligence: AI, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and The Mummy Returns [ (Wikipedia - Industrial Light and Magic) ]. Michael Bay has directed such movies as Coyote Ugly, Armageddon, and Bad Boys [ (Wikipedia - Michael Bay) ]. Jerry
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. Case Study Case Summary This case examines issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments, Dreyer‘s Grand, Unilever, and Meadowbrook Lane Capital in January 2000. The case requires a discussion of fundamental firm objectives and the implications of a non-traditional corporate orientation; one needs to review the development of Ben & Jerry's strong social consciousness and the takeover defence
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. Case Study Case Summary This case examines issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments, Dreyer‘s Grand, Unilever, and Meadowbrook Lane Capital in January 2000. The case requires a discussion of fundamental firm objectives and the implications of a non-traditional corporate orientation; one needs to review the development of Ben & Jerry's strong social consciousness and the
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