Posted on 11/05/2025 8:06:41 AM PST by Navy Patriot
The Magnum Ice Cream Company has concluded that the chair of its Ben & Jerry's brand no longer "meets the criteria" to serve as a board member after internal investigations, it said in an SEC filing, as an ongoing internal feud continues.
The Magnum-led ice cream venture, which also incorporates the Wall's and Cornetto brands, is being spun off from consumer goods conglomerate Unilever in an Amsterdam listing now planned for Dec. 8 after a delay of around one month due to the U.S. government shutdown.
Unilever and Ben & Jerry's have been at odds since at least 2021 when the Chubby Hubby ice cream maker said it would stop selling in the Israel-occupied West Bank. Ben & Jerry's has sued parent company Unilever over alleged attempts to silence it and called the conflict in Gaza a "genocide," highly unusual for a major U.S. brand.
Magnum did not name Ben & Jerry's board chair Anuradha Mittal in its SEC filing published late on Monday and provided no details on which criteria it deemed the chair of no longer meeting. Magnum did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mittal could not immediately be reached.
Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen warned last month that the corporate conflict with the parent company would become more pronounced once the spin-off is complete, as the brand will account for a larger percentage of Magnum's business than Unilever's.
Unilever expects Magnum, which reported year-on-year organic sales growth of 5.8% in the first half of 2025 and revenue of 4.5 billion euros ($5.25 billion), to command just over one-fifth of the around $88 billion global ice cream market and compete with rivals such as Nestle-backed Froneri.
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“Sanctimonious artery-cloggers Ben & Jerry.”
It’s difficult to market “Cheery Garcia” when most Americans were born after Jerry Garcia died.
So was this A. Mittal a policy spokesman for the actual Ben and Jerry? Was he then, continuing to push the hard liberal agenda on marketing, and consequently, let go by new corporate owner Magnum, b/c they have a newer sales pitch?
Is that what happened?
Regardless, both Ben & Jerry are worth about $150. Million each, so they won’t be lacking for dessert choices.
Seems to me, $150. Million is a surprisingly low net worth, considering they’ve been in this business for 47 years.
Maybe they’re more spenders vs savers.
there is, regrettably, no shortage of antiSemites with Jewish names and family heritages.
but when ANYONE (Jewish capo included) is a company officer s/he is supposed to be leading the firm and building a positive reputation for the brand.
Ben and Jerry (the BJ brothers) have done just the opposite -— besmirching both their ice cream rep AND, to a significant degree, the parent company Unilever’s.
They should be made to pay for the damage via a shareholders’ suit.
Agree!
a great band!
Jerry himself? very talented! but the drugs killed him..alas.
(he was in a drug rehab place when he died... so maybe he was trying to get off them...)
Today’s Acquisitions is tomorrow’s spin-offs!
>>>Jerry himself? very talented! but the drugs killed him.
Choices!! He made his!
Jerry himself? very talented! but the drugs killed him..alas.
Being fat didn’t help.
yes. fat is from overeating and/or metabolic. such as his diabetes may have played a part
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