S w 999A37 BEN & JERRY’S — JAPAN James M. Hagen prepared this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The author does not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The author may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered
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at Ice Cream Shops: Baskin-Robbins, Ben & Jerry’s and Cold Stone Creamery Introduction This purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast services marketing at three ice cream scoop shop companies: Baskin-Robbins, Ben & Jerry’s, and Cold Stone Creamery. In a Mintel report on ice cream shops published in 2009, “roughly seven out of 10 respondents say that ice cream is the first thing that they think about when wanting a tasty treat” (Ice Cream). Given that consumers are easily drawn to ice cream
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Differential voting rights Ben & Jerry’s had three equity classes: class A common, class B common, and class A preferred. The holders of class A common were entitled to one vote for each share held. The holders of class B common, reserved primarily for insiders, were entitled to 10 votes for each share held. Class B common was not transferable, but could be converted into class A common stock on a share-for-share basis and was transferable thereafter. The company’s principals—Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield
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AUSTIN JAMES QUINN Ben & Jerry’s: Preserving Mission and Brand within Unilever op yo In December 2004, Ben & Jerry’s head of Social Mission, Yola Carlough, sat in her office in South Burlington, Vermont, talking with the company’s “social auditor,” an external consultant hired to generate an independent perspective on the company’s performance. Together, the two were compiling data for a forthcoming report, Social and Environmental Assessment 2004, in which Ben & Jerry’s social and environmental
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Motivations for forging strategic alliance Despite the inherent risks, it is often necessary for firms, because of their lack of necessary resources, to forge strategic alliances with other firms for acquiring complementary skills. Before establishing a formal relationship with other enterprises, an enterprise must realize its motivations and priorities. four motivations with different orientations: 1. Strategy-oriented. Enterprises forge alliance for strategic objectives such as maximizing
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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream began as a small “scoop shop” in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. From the company’s inception more than thirty years ago, their plan was to provide quality ice cream while also creating a company that was socially conscious about the world and its environment. Within only a few years of opening, the demand for their ice cream grew and the company started making deliveries to local grocery stores and restaurants. In 1983, their first out-of-state franchise opened in Portland
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FREEZING OUT BEN & JERRY: CORPORATE LAW AND THE SALE OF A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ICON Antony Page* & Robert A. Katz**† INTRODUCTION The perfect duo. Ice cream and chunks. Business and social change. Ben and Jerry.1 Nobody wants to end up like Ben and Jerry’s, where soon after a multinational acquired it, key facets of its social mission were cut from the company.2 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. was once the darling of proponents of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.3 It was a for-profit
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Jer ry: Ben: Jerry: Ben: Jerry : Ben: What's interest ing abo ut me a nd my role in the company is, I'm j ust this guy on the street. A pe rson who 's fai rly conventional , mainstream. accepting of life as it is. Salt ofthe earth. A man of the pe opl e. But then I'v e go t this friend , B en, who challenges everything. It' s against his nature to do anything the same wa y any one 's ever do ne it befo re. To which my response is always , " I don 't think that'll wo rk." To which my response is
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EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 439 Part 3 Closing Cases Ben & Jerry’s—Japan On an autumn evening in Tokyo in 1997, Perry Odak, Angelo Pezzani, Bruce Bowman, and Riv Hight gratefully accepted the hot steaming oshibori towels their kimonobedecked waitress quietly offered. It had been just over nine months since Odak had committed to resolving the conundrum of whether to introduce Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to the Japanese market and, if so, how. The next morning would be their last
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Unit 3 P5 Marketing Segmentation Introduction In this assignment I will be discussing different types of marketing segmentations, so what is segmentation? Segmentation is used by businesses to help target their products at the right customers. It is about recognising the specific needs and wants of customer groups and then using this information into providing products and services which meet customer needs. Geographic Companies segment the market by attacking a restricted geographic
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