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Help Ben save Ben & Jerry's Social Mission! Free Print At Home Flyers

Follow the link to find a PDF of a two-sided flier that you can print at home -- hang them up on community bulletin boards or hand them out at fairs, farmers markets, anywhere people are. This explains what's happening to Ben & Jerry's social mission and actions people can take to make their voice heard. The reality is, it's working. If we keep up the pressure, Magnum will see the light and sell Ben & Jerry's to a group of socially aligned investors.

freebenandjerrys.com
u/ege3 — 3 days ago
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Magnum Ice Cream Stock Jumps 12% On Take Private Reports

Positive development as a private equity firm looks to buy the troubled Magnum Ice Cream company and would likely be much more willing to sell Ben & Jerry's to a group of socially aligned investors and save the social mission.

tradingview.com
u/ege3 — 7 days ago
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Magnum owns Ben & Jerry's. Now it's destroying what made the brand worth buying

CEO of Patagonia and CEO of Dr. Bronner's make the case for why Magnum should sell Ben & Jerry's to values-aligned investors.

fortune.com
u/ege3 — 11 days ago
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Ben & Jerry's sold for $326 million with 1 condition. The new owner broke it

When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield sold Ben & Jerry's to Unilever in 2000 for a reported $326 million (1), they also extracted a promise that turned out to be the most consequential clause in the deal: The brand would retain an independent board of directors whose job was to protect its social mission, no matter who owned the company. (2)

For more than two decades, that arrangement held. Until it didn't.

ca.finance.yahoo.com
u/ege3 — 11 days ago
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Free Ben & Jerry's crashes Magnum's first shareholder meeting, 17 U.S. institutional investors representing over $43 billion in assets under management and Dutch association VBDO asked for a review of Magnum's governance of Ben & Jerry's

"Now is the time to choose. Do you support companies that openly admit they violate contracts, hide information from investors, and ban their employees from speaking out against President Trump? Or do you support businesses that treat people fairly and fight for justice?” said Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's. “Shareholders asked directly for brand-level financial figures. Magnum refused. They parade Ben & Jerry's in their marketing and tell investors it's a high-growth asset, but when asked to show the numbers, they go quiet. That tells you everything you need to know about the health of a brand they've spent years undermining, and it should ring serious alarm bells for investors. We’ve made clear the high cost of keeping Ben & Jerry's part of Magnum, and a group of values-aligned investors is ready to buy Ben & Jerry's today. For everyone else, we have a choice in the freezer case. If Magnum won't listen to its investors, it's only a matter of time before their customers vote with their wallets.” 
 
Ahead of the meeting, Magnum received a formal investor letter signed by 17 institutions managing over $43 billion in assets, including NorthStar Asset Management, Trillium Asset Management, Domini Impact Investments, Mercy Investment Services, Adasina Social Capital, and the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development, representing approximately $10 trillion. The letter asked five direct questions: how Magnum intends to honor its legally binding independent board agreement; why it refuses to disclose Ben & Jerry's standalone financial performance; what brand health metrics show about consumer sentiment since the governance changes began; what the full litigation liability picture looks like; and what internal KPIs Magnum uses to evaluate Ben & Jerry's. Magnum provided no satisfactory answers.

u/ege3 — 15 days ago
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u/KarishmaforSenate — 15 days ago
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Exclusive: Magnum investor group knocks ice cream maker over Ben & Jerry's handling, letter shows

"This is a significant governance failure that ​erodes shareholder trust and sets a deeply concerning precedent for every brand within the Magnum and Unilever portfolio."

reuters.com
u/ege3 — 17 days ago