Executive Summary – Ben & Jerry’s Case Current Situation: Ben & Jerry’s Company is in the business of making different flavors of ice creams in USA with sales of $75 million in 1990. It is ranked # 2 in super-premium ice cream market and is 5th largest ice cream maker of any type nationwide. It has experienced explosive growth in the US market primarily through entry into new geographic markets and flavor differentiation. Ben Cohen‚ one of the founders is the majority shareholder. Chuck
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KEEPING THINGS ORGANIZED AT BEN & JERRY’S SUMMARY: This case is on an ice cream parlor which is Ben & Jerry’s and it was started by Ben and Jerry in 1978 at a small gas station in Burlington Vermont. The initial goal of the company was to sell ice cream just for fun‚ but just within no time they became so much popular that now they were a $45 million dollars company. The main reason for this was its unique culture which they followed and which was not moving on alone but to move
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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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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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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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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 cream‚ but the brand also stood for taking action to improve
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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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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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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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