Tag: Unilever

In addition, there will be sales on the company's products in preparation for Purim, Passover and Independence Day, the company said.

"Reducing the package sizes and increasing the prices follows an increase in production inputs in recent years, including a substantial rise in wages."

A Michigan pension fund sued for compensation for a drop in shares' value.

The latest price hike follows a wave of other initiated by Tnuva, Osem, Strauss, Diplomat, Terra, Wili Food, and more.

“Any products sold by Blue & White Ice Cream Ltd are uniquely its own and should not be confused with products produced and distributed by Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc."

Shufersal is the only supermarket chain in Israel to completely refuse to comply with supplier price hikes.

It's not yet clear whether consumers will allow the price hikes to pass quietly, or boycott the companies behind the move.

The mediation between the two companies collapsed in mid-July.

The woke ice cream company sued parent company Unilever for transferring production rights to Israeli company.

In the end, Unilever announced on Wednesday that it had sold its Ben & Jerry’s business interests in Israel to Zinger.

Trian Fund Management LP, an investment firm of billionaire Nelson Peltz, acquired a 1.5% stake in the company for $1.6 billion this year.

The injunction request shows that the boycott harms not only AQP but also PA Arabs.

Unilever is seeking a “new arrangement” for sales in (parts of) Israel before the end of the year.

The unanimous vote by the 7-member Illinois Investment Policy Board followed a 90-day review.

The global conglomerate continues to come under fire after ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s boycott decision.

The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 2021 Federalist Society conference and included remarks by Richard Goldberg, who drafted one of the first anti-BDS laws in 2015.

In the end, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are giving hypocrisy a bad name.

Arizona's state Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced on Tuesday that the state of Arizona is completely divesting from Ben & Jerry's.

As part of Unilever's acquisition of Strauss Ice Cream, Unilever is allowed no say in the marketing of Ben & Jerry's in Israel, to avoid reducing competition.

"The Ben & Jerry's Foundation steered over $170,000 in grants to an anti-Israel nonprofit group run by one of its board directors."

"Anyone who stops selling their products in Israel will find that we have taken over his trademarks and rights."

Franchisees operating 30 stores across the country, generating $23.3 million in combined annual revenue, say the company’s stance on Israel has damaged their bottom line.

“The second Ben & Jerry’s decided to discriminate against Israel, it affected Florida’s ability to make investments with its parent company,” said Jimmy Patronis, CFO of the State Board of Administration.

“Please continue to be assured that Maryland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and ardently opposes any form of discrimination based on religion, national origin, place of residence or ethnicity,” stated a letter by Maryland Secretary of State John C. Wobensmith.

If Unilever is found non-compliant, the state would have to divest from it and any of its subsidiaries.

Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, picked by Meretz for a committee, signed a pro-BDS letter from leftist Israelis to Ben & Jerry's.

Town Supervisor Donald Clavin said the ice-cream maker’s statement “showcases the company’s anti-Israeli stance” and is supported by the “BDS movement—a movement I consider anti-Semitic.”

“By virtue of its wayward subsidiary, Unilever—a massive international conglomerate—risks potentially crushing financial consequences in terms of its ability to receive investments from, or do business with, the majority of U.S. states,” said Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project.

Israel’s ambassador to the US asked 35 US governors to enforce their states' laws which make it a crime to support the BDS.

"We do not accept the demand of Unilever and Ben & Jerry's Global."