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Ben & Jerry’s says that his parent company CEO illegally licensed David Stever On its social and political activism, violating its merger agreement.
The ice manufacturer based in Vermont, known for its social activism, said on Tuesday in the court documents deposited in New York that Unilever informed its board of directors that it replaced Stever for “its commitment to the social mission of Ben & Jerry and the integrity of the essential brand and its desire to collaborate in good faith by the independent council, rather than real concerns of the brand concerning its performance history”.
The company said that this decision stressed that “non-compliance with Unilever to comply with its contractual obligations” under the merger agreement concluded when Unilever acquired the ice manufacturer in 2000 for $ 326 million. He said the CEO could only be deleted after consulting the board of directors’ advisory committee.
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“Unilever has announced its decision even before the committee was appointed and tried to force the independent council in the ruby of the decision by unilaterally dictating the artificial and hasty deadlines,” said court documents.
Fox Business contacted Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever to comment.
Ben and Jerry’s ice cream is stored in a cooler at an event where the founders Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen gave ice cream to draw attention to the police reform to the United States Supreme Court on May 20, 2021. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)
Ben and Jerry’s said that the merger agreement “also protects the social mission and the integrity of the Ben & Jerry’s brand, positions the independent council as” guards “of the same thing, and forces Unilever to work with the independent council in good faith”.
However, the company argued that Unilever “failed to recognize and respect the main responsibility of the Independent Council on Ben & Jerry Social mission and integrity of the brandincluding threatening Ben and Jerry staff if the company is expressed about the problems that Unilever prefers to censor. “”
Since its foundation in 1978, Ben & Jerry’s has been known for its left -wing plea, and the ice manufacturer based in Vermont has been able to maintain an independent board of directors to continue its progressive activism even after having sold in Unilever in 2000.
But in recent years, the unique structure of the agreement that has enabled Ben & Jerry’s to move on to controversial problems without interference has also attracted Unilever in the fray.
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The biggest lightning rod began in July 2021, when Ben & Jerry announced that he would no longer sell his products to the Israelis in the West Bank, which the company calls “a occupied Palestinian territory”.
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In 2023, Ben & Jerry’s said that Unilever announced that he had sold the intellectual property of Ben & Jerry in Israel and the Palestinian territory occupied to a distributor who would pursue sales in the colonies – a move that the ice manufacturer said he had violated his merger agreement.
In March 2024, Unilever, the owner of some 400 brands, announced his intention to rotit his ice Business – including Ben & Jerry’s – After more than a century.
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Ben & Jerry’s declared in court documents Tuesday that Unileur “had failed to engage with the independent council of good faith concerning the way in which restructuring will preserve the rights, duties and obligations specified in the agreements of the parties, in particular the social mission and the integrity of the brand of Ben & Jerry and the authority of the independent council on this subject.”
