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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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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and become more market-oriented. She is going to announce the changes at an upcoming meeting. She has asked you to prepare a short speech outlining the general reasons for the new company orientation. What key topics should you be sure to include in the speech? Marketing orientation is a business model that focuses on delivering products designed according to customer desires‚ needs‚ and requirements‚ in addition to product functionality and production efficiency to drive the business forward. We want
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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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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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Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever: The Bohemian and the Behemoth FACTS: Ben & Jerry’s success is a direct result of transitioning form a local Vermont-based ice-cream producer into a large multinational corporation as part of an acquisition initiated by Unilever. The company’s three interrelated mission statements stand to complement each other and through history and culture have successfully turned Ben & Jerry’s into a social behemoth. Following a merger with the multinational juggernaut
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade – The Unilever Scoop Case With four offers on the table‚ Ben & Jerry’s had quite the decision to make. When it came down to it‚ they chose the most attractive offer which turned out to be with Unilever. As time passed‚ this was shown to ultimately be a very wise choice as the financial results would later show impressive results. These impressive results could be seen by looking at how the operating margins tripled and were able to maintain a 700M operating profit in succeeding
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Vermont’s famous ice cream markers‚ Ben & Jerry’s‚ started the City Churned campaign summer of 2013; where five major cities voted in traditional and non-traditional ways to create a unique flavor that capture elements of the city. The five major cities were Seattle‚ Portland‚ San Francisco‚ Washington DC and New York City. Ben & Jerry’s also teamed up with local favorites to make the flavor even more represent the city it is for. At the end of the summer‚ Ben and Jerry’s served the final product
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