Company Overview Ben and Jerry’s is a leader in the super-premium ice cream category where it competes primarily with Nestle’s Haagen-Dazs (Hoovers, 2017). Headquartered in Vermont, it is a subsidiary and brand of Unilever (Hoovers, 2017). Ben and Jerry’s was founded in 1978 in Vermont in a renovated gas station (Murray, 2015). The founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield made a commitment to social responsibility a part of the company’s mission statement and values (Murray, 2015). The…
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