In a statement shared via his co-founder Ben Cohen’s social media, Jerry Greenfield announced he is resigning from Ben & Jerry’s, the ice cream company he helped create in 1978. Greenfield’s departure after 47 years is due to his concern that parent company Unilever (UL) has “silenced” the brand’s social activism, breaking promises made when it acquired Ben & Jerry’s in 2000.
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