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Ben & Jerry’s

1 March 2013 01:21, by Carlos Perez

I think that every company, but especially big companies as Ben & Jerry’s, have to be conscious of their acts because could have a lot of concequences.
As I read before, this company takes care of the world and spend money to improve the environment.
That is so good, but I don’t know anything that they do for the people. Could be that this actions are focused only at their country or state, but they are selling products arround the world. With that I’m not saying that they are bad, what I want to say is that in the text that I read before, they say that they are traing to help the (...)

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Location: Burlington (United States of America, Vermont)

Sector: ice-cream

Official website: http://www.benjerry.com

Key figures:

Founded: 1978
Headquarters: South Burlington, Vermont
Country: U.S.
Main factory: Waterbury

Parent company worldwide: Unilever NV

Key people: - Jostein Solheim (CEO)
- Ben Cohen (co-founder)
- Jerry Greenfield (co-founder)

Employees: 500 (2007)

Products & Services: Ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, smoothies

Incomes: $3.750.000 (2005)
Sales: $97.000.000 (2005)
Assets: $43.120.000 (2005)

Began Franchising: 1981
Total Investment (per franchise): $175.25K - 451.25K

Franchise Units

YEAR U.S. CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL COMPANY OWNED
2011 299 5 487 5
2010 340 5 464 6
2009 383 6 456 6
2008 417 19 380 8
2007 425 21 236 11

Number of Locations: Over 800 units worldwide.

Nbr. visits: 7144

Nbr. inspires: 21