Ben & Jerry’s said its parent, Unilever (ULVR.L), decided to oust the ice cream maker’s chief executive, Dave Stever, escalating a battle over the subsidiary’s independence on social policy issues.
In a Tuesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Ben & Jerry’s said Unilever advised on March 3 it was removing Stever without consulting directors because of his commitment to the ice cream maker’s social mission and brand integrity, not because of concerns about his job performance.
It said Unilever chastised Stever in a January performance review for “repeatedly acquiescing” to Ben & Jerry’s promotion of social goals, and has repeatedly warned personnel not to defy its efforts to “silence the social mission.”
Ben & Jerry’s also said Unilever’s attacks on its social mission have reached “new levels of oppressiveness.”
If you wanted to retain control, you should never have sold it to Unilever.
B&J’s enshitified a while ago. There are better ice creams.
They have some of the best vegan icecreams. I wish there were some good alternatives that I can get here.
They have some of the best vegan icecreams.
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So, you do realize that there are people who can’t have dairy, right? And those people might still want ice cream.
Yeah, that sucks. It doesn’t make vegan ice cream good though.
Then don’t eat it? What the fuck is your problem outside of “it’s vegan”?
I don’t?
It would be nice to understand what these social policies are otherwise this means nothing.
Well you’re supposed to just know that it means diversity, anti-war, societal health…anything that isn’t pushing towards total wealth concentration and power of the elite just be eliminated. It’s literally the machine from fern gully
If they’re against wealth consolidation, why did they willingly come under a larger corporation? Hypocrites and sellouts.
Tale as old as time. Money, lots of money, and promises about people not being affected, the company not changing, etc. 99% of the time it’s bs.
It might be higher than 99%. But not quite 100.
