Executive Summary Ben and Jerrys is a successful ice cream company with many strengths and weaknesses. The company faces serious competition‚ financial struggles‚ economic and social influences‚ all of which are covered in my paper. I also discussed some recommendations I have for the companies success. Ben and Jerry ’s is one of the top ice cream companies around. They have had many ups and downs throughout the history of the company‚ but overall‚ they have overcome most of their hardships
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Executive Summary Increasing competitive pressure and Ben & Jerry’s declining financial performance has brought a number of takeover offers. Henry Morgan is a member of the board of directors of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade and was elected to represent the interests of the shareholders. Morgan will attend the board meeting for considering the pending offers. If the firm takes the offer‚ the firm will lose control of its assets and social orientation; however‚ Ben & Jerry’s shareholders
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Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream 1997 Ben and Jerry’s Perry Odak 1997 Background Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends born four days apart in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ in 1951. You could say that ice cream runs in their veins. During his senior year of high school‚ Ben drove an ice cream truck. After high school‚ he attended and dropped out of various colleges in the Northeast‚ eventually leaving his studies altogether to teach pottery
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Ben and Jerry’s Introduction: Overview of the Case The corporation of Ben and Jerry’s first began on May 5‚ 1978 in a small town called Burlington located in Virginia. The founders of this ice cream parlor were Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield with only limited funds of $8‚000‚ they produced a famous nationwide parlor that caters to millions of people. Specialty flavors of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough‚ Cherry Garcia‚ Rain Forest Crunch‚ and frozen yogurt are attractions and symbols to the corporation
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Case Study: Ben & Jerry’s Homemade (Case 3) This case focuses on the issues of asset control of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade‚ Inc with the four outstanding takeover offers by Dreyer’s Grand‚ Unilever‚ Meadowbrook Lane Capital and Chartwell Investment in 2001. Through the analysis of the four offers‚ I suggest the Board accept the Unilever’s offer. The advantage and disadvantage of each offer is discussed following. Dreyer’s Grand The offer does not maximize the shareholders wealth but retain
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Course: Organizational Development (MGMT 3022) Group Project: Ben and Jerry’s (A): Team Development Intervention THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE‚ TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO‚ WEST INDIES FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES MGMT 3022 – ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (EVENING UNIVERSITY) COURSE CODE: Mgmt. 3022 COURSE
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Strategic Analysis of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade‚ Inc. Can B&J Serve a Double Scoop of Being Green and Making Green? ESM 210 Professor Delmas Final Paper November 21‚ 2000 Alex Tuttle Vicky Krikelas 1 BEN & JERRY’S ICE CREAM Table of Contents INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………. MARKET DESCRIPTION………………………………………………………………….. FIRM DESCRIPTION………………………………………………………………………. THE MISSION STATEMENT……………………………………………………………… 1 1 1 2 GENERAL CORPORATE STRATEGY…………………………………………………… 2 CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL
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Model and Strategic Plan Part III: Balanced Scorecard and Communication Plan Many who admire Ben & Jerry’s iconic status as a socially responsible company began to worry about the organizations standards once it was sold in 2000 to Unilever. From its beginning Ben & Jerry’s brand just like its mission stood for both the pursuit of values and making an excellent product. Most people knew one thing about Ben & Jerry’s brand it’s that the mission and the company were not only about crazily named ice
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Culture Ben and Jerry’s corporate culture is one that focuses on the environment‚ its products‚ and people. The corporate culture of “Doing Good by Doing Good” and “Peace‚ Love and Ice cream” establish the guideposts for how employees behave in the business. Ben and Jerry’s hold a deep respect for people both inside and outside the company. Ben believes that “Businesses have a responsibility to give back to the community‚” while Jerry believes that “If it’s not fun‚ why do it?” Both Ben and Jerry
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“Being Green At Ben & Jerry’s” author George F. Will informs his readers on the questionable relationship between environmentalism and politics. He provides us examples to illustrate the contradictions in environmental policies. Will tries to show us how opponents of increased energy production are not necessary looking out for our country’s general interest‚ or at least many times they tend to ignore facts when they are reasoning. He starts out making his point by talking about how the Senate overruled
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