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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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 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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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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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 & 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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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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For this task I have chosen to write about Ben and Jerrys and Haagen-Dazs ice cream. These are two rival brands at the top end of the market. I decided to write about ice cream because it is very popular and there is lots of information available about them. They also both have good marketing and promotional strategies. I chose to write about Haagen-Dazs‚ as it is the best known ice cream. It is the number one super premium ice cream with 43 % of the market share. It is quite expensive as it is
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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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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Inc: A period of Transition Despite making the first yearly loss in 1994‚ the company’s health cannot be written off. The loss in 1994 can mostly be attributed to some irregular factors like debt due to the asset write-down of $6.8 million resulting from abandonment of complex manufacturing system and incorrect assumption about the value at the St. Albans plant. The introduction of the "Smooth‚ No Chunks" line in the same year also resulted in some extra advertising
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