He thought he could have his ice cream and eat it too.

Ben & Jerry opposed selling to Unilever. That is an issue when a company takes outside shareholders. Steve Jobs got kicked out of Apple in the 1980s.

He's doesn't hold anywhere near a majority of shares.

And they are all just as bad as he is. Not an ounce of principles on the entire board.

You have plenty of cash for several lifetimes. Spend some on activism if you like. It’s not your company anymore.

rational, IMO.

I am an ice cream addict but I go for flavor and good quality. I "pair" it with pie, for instance, kinda like pairing a wine with a specific dish. I eat it once a day and it's a treat!

In Edgewater, FL we have the brand Mayfield Creamery available and my fat ass wishes we didn't. (I've been able to restrain myself for 6 months. So far.)

Cherries Garcia was once a thing. Cherry and chocolate go well together. Sometimes Strawberry. Black Cherry is good!

Don't get me started....

With a bit of whipped cream so my kitty can share (the whipped cream only!!!).

I buy it way too often. Yum!

Kroger Death By Chocolate

Talenti Gelato has a double dark chocolate with vermouth and dark chocolate chip shards.
Plus they also have w/o the vermouth a blackraspberry with the dark chocolate chip shards.
While I prefer chocolate, the black raspberry is very good!

Don't really like the vermouth much, but it's not overwhelming, so I sort of ignore it. Luckily the other flavors are stronger.

I don't think there's a Kroger's near me.
Enjoy!

kroger, king soopers, city market, fry's, etc.

There was a sale on it at my supermarket (Acme) and yum! I tried their gelato. The Vanilla Caramel Swirl.

I have watched how the cherries are prepared for cherry ice cream. Soaked in brine, bleached, then artificially colored and flavored. Get real cherries - fresh, frozen, canned or dried - and add them to the cream. Those processed fake cherries are the worst part of the cherry industry here.

Brined cherries are properly matured whole cherries of similar varietal characteristics packed in a solution of sulfur dioxide of sufficient strength to preserve the cherries. Hardening agents usually are added to the solution.

After four to six weeks of storage, brined cherries are ready for finishing. They are removed from the brine and rinsed in water and graded. The cherries are then pitted and stemmed, although in some instances stems are left on the cherries intentionally, to make the cocktail style. The pitted fruit is leached in running water to remove most of the sulfur dioxide.

The cherries are then dyed, preferably with an insoluble food dye such as erythrosine (known as FD&C Red No. 3). Other dyes approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can also be used. Erythrosine is soluble at a pH of 4.5 or higher and precipitates in the tissue of fruit at lower pH so that the color will not leach out or "bleed" to color other fruits with which the cherries may be used, as in the case of canned fruit salad. The pH adjustment can be made with sodium bicarbonate to increase and with citric acid to decrease the pH. The cherries are boiled for about 20 minutes in a 0. 025% to 0.050% erythrosine solution of pH 4.5 or higher. Use enough solution to cover all the cherries.

After cherries and dye solution have cooled and have stood together for 24 hours, 0.25% to 0.50% citric acid by weight is added to bring the pH of the solution to 4.2, and the boiling and standing procedures are repeated in order to set the dye. The cherries are then rinsed in water to remove all dye particles from the surface and pit cavities. The dyed cherries are now boiled in a 30° Brix sirup for 5 to 10 minutes and then are left to stand for 24 hours, during which time the syrup is absorbed. The syrup is removed by draining and sugar is added to it to increase the Brix reading to 40°. Repeat the boiling and standing procedures to build up the sugar content in the cherries. The syrup is drained again, sufficient sugar is added to restore the syrup concentration back to 40° Brix, and imitation cherry flavor is added.

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/t435gd24k

... they sold out because the brand was losing money.

To me, it's just another scam so I have always avoided buying their product.

It's one thing to have your prices in line with everyone else and offer to donate a "portion" to charity (provided that "portion" is clearly stated and is honest. After all, if it's a portion of income, that is good. If it is a portion of profits, that is a number easily manipulated. One can always pay out tons in executive salaries and bonuses to insure minuscule profits to share. A real donation is a good thing.

On the other hand, to price your product at the top and then "donate" money is, IMHO, just a fake. B&J makes good ice cream but their prices are far more than many others so they are just using the donation thing to generate buzz and make even bigger profits than others. I can sell my $1 item for $2, tell everyone I donate 25% to charity, and make $,.50 more than everyone else. The best part is that I also get the credit for being a big donor when in fact, it's my customers who are doing the donating and they don't even get the tax write-off or the credit for what they do. Save your money. Buy the less expensive product and do your own donating to the charity of YOUR choice. Let the execs donate THEIR money, not yours.

IMHO, this scam is one step from the "philanthropists" who live like royalty their whole lives, then "donate" money on their death or old age instead of sharing some of what they make with their customers, employees and the needy as they "earn" it.

They claim to donate to charitable groups but they collect those donations from their customers and their rank and file employees. People who can little afford to be donating to huge charities.

It never comes from their corporate earnings.

however the idea that B&J ice cream is over-priced is not factual. Although I'm not a huge fan of all kinds of things added to my ice cream if you compare them to Haagen-Dazs or any other premium ice cream their prices are in line if not a bit lower given the quality and quantity of the things added to the ice cream. It's kind of the same thing with Newman's Own salad dressings. Kraft or Wishbone may be slightly lower in price but from a taste and quality perspective Kraft is more like motor oil with flavorings while Wishbone is a bit better than Kraft.

Some people in fact claim that B&J pack too much of added things into a container and the ice cream feels secondary. In any event they are very high premium on the ice cream portion itself and the quality/quantity of their added things is high as well. Priced in my local grocers they are about $1.00 higher than HD or less regular price and there are smaller brands that are even higher than B&J but have lower quality/quantity factors for added ingredients as well as the ice cream itself. Local convenience stores do rip off their customers for B&J pints because they charge nearly double the grocery store price. My local chains usually run sales like BOGO etc. on B&J pints about every 6 weeks or so.

like when the CEO couldn't make more than 5x the lowest paid worker. It changed to 17x by the time it sold to Unilever, but still...

I won't be buying Ben and Jerry's any more. The brand is not just ice cream, it's who they were. I can find other good tasting ice cream. I don't need to support a company who censors the people who made it all happen. If they just wanted the money, they shouldn't have bought a socially responsible company and made promises.