How Van Leeuwen Ice Cream's Laura O'Neill and Other Growth-Minded Entrepreneurs Keep Their North Star Growth at all costs is for tech bros. The Brooklyn-based ice cream maven and other founders are charting a more sustainable course. 04/8/2024 - 11:08 am | View Link
Ben & Jerry’s is set to be spun off from Unilever. Here’s how the company’s founding duo built an ice cream empire from an old gas station. The company's decision to take a stance on social justice issues has helped build its brand, a former CEO told BI. Matthew McCarthy said in 2020 that Ben & Jerry's takes its social mission ... 03/22/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum will form the core of an $8 billion ice cream company more focused company," it said in a statement.The newly minted firm will boast five of the 10 best-selling ice cream brands worldwide, namely Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Walls and Cornetto. 03/20/2024 - 10:01 am | View Link
Why Ben & Jerry’s Will Keep Its Progressive Politics After Unilever Divorce When Unilever won a bidding war for Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 ... struggled to mesh its social mission with shareholder interests. For example, in the mid-1990s its CEO—a former McKinsey ... 03/20/2024 - 4:19 am | View Link
Unilever to cut 7,500 jobs and spin off its ice cream business, which includes Ben & Jerry’s Some analysts pointed out that splitting from Ben & Jerry’s, which is known for social activism that has put it at odds at times with its corporate owner, could have an added upside for Unilever. 03/19/2024 - 8:37 am | View Link
Author and Modern Elder Academy founder Chip Conley shares four pathways to discover your purpose and the statement that helps him fulfill his.
Early in my research about Chip Conley, I heard him share a perspective that stopped me in my tracks. Invoking Father Richard Rohr’s insight, he shared that we spend the first half of our lives serving our ego and the second half serving our soul.
With $290 million in funding and a team of industry veterans, the new company hopes to enter a category of obesity treatments that has taken the country by storm.
Metsera, a clinical-stage biotechnology startup that develops drugs for obesity and metabolic diseases, launched on Thursday with what it described as a “broad portfolio” of weight-loss treatments that it hopes to bring to market.
The Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market is planned to be redeveloped as part of an affordable housing development in Manhattan's Central Harlem neighborhood.