Farewell Ben and Jerry

Howard Lake | 12 April 2000 | News

Philanthropic ice-cream makers Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have sold their company to Unilever. It appears that the deal involves Unilever committing to maintain some of the charitable and social provisions that made Ben & Jerry’s Homemade such an icon in the corporate giving field. For example, they are reported to be committed to continue paying 7.5% of pre-tax profits to the company’s charity, according to The Guardian.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.