Two Scoops isn’t going to like this.

“Ben & Jerry's infamously woke CEO has been fired by the ice cream company's fed-up parent company Unilever.

David Stever was booted on March 3 after Unilever bosses grew tired of Ben & Jerry's advocating for divisive progressive causes like Black Lives Matters, DEI, defunding the police and Palestinian rights.

Ben & Jerry's remaining bosses have now filed a lawsuit accusing the parent company of firing Stever for his political activism. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/14516317

Sell it back to investors and let it sink on its own. I can't remember ever going to one of their stores or getting any of their overpriced ice cream in a supermarket.

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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Sell it back to investors and let it sink on its own. I can't remember ever going to one of their stores or getting any of their overpriced ice cream in a supermarket.

Same here, I never bought their over priced shit before I knew how woke they were. Once I found out what libtards they are no way, no matter how cheap they make it.

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Same here, I never bought their over priced shit before I knew how woke they were. Once I found out what libtards they are no way, no matter how cheap they make it.

The tie-dye aesthetic and Vermont HQ wasn't a clue as to their political leanings? The annual Earth Day events and product launches, names like Cherry Garcia, Stephen Colbert-colab, Yes Pecan flavor after Obama's victory and Pecan Resist after DJT victory all should've been clues as to where they stood politically and their efforts to use their company and position.

Wasn't there some to-do a few years ago about their factory being discovered to have been built on Indian land?

Yeah,

Never wanted to know what they put in their Hubby-Hubby flavor or why it was only available in limited quantities.

I have tried their overpriced, overrated Ice Cream. Not something I would spend my money on.

The parent company, Unilever, bought B&J years ago and has been butting heads with these motherfuckers because of their wokeness, and the latest firing of the CEO is no different. Why not dump the fucking company for a profit and be done with the headache? I can't imagine any conservatives supporting their products.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Why not dump the fucking company for a profit and be done with the headache?

Yep. Which seems to be what B&Js wants too. According to the article, they're trying to gather investors to attempt to purchase it back.

Sounds like a win-win scenario: Unilever makes a profit and doesn't have to deal with their woke BS or bad publicity any more, and B&Js is then free to resume wasting their money on social justice causes even though it means alienating more than half of their potential customers and cutting into their financial bottom line.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
...B&Js is then free to resume wasting their money on social justice causes even though it means alienating more than half of their potential customers and cutting into their financial bottom line.

And another Penzey's Spices is born.

I don't eat ice cream any more, but back in the day, I was quite fond of Cherry Garcia.

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And another Penzey's Spices is born.

As a large user of spices, I doubt my going elsewhere bothered them, but WTF!

Tillman

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Originally posted by 12131:
The parent company, Unilever, bought B&J years ago and has been butting heads with these motherfuckers because of their wokeness, and the latest firing of the CEO is no different. Why not dump the fucking company for a profit and be done with the headache? I can't imagine any conservatives supporting their products.

I've been involved in many acquisitions over the years. What I don't get is Unilever not following Corp acquisition 101 by filling the B&J leadership with Unilever people. They want the sales from the brand name not the headaches.

EDIT: Unilever has been owners since 2000 and it looks like Unilever did put their executives in as CEO at least twice. Unilever needs to look in the mirror to see who is responsible for their problems.

Probably because Unilever is a British conglomerate and Ben and Jerry's is not a big enough business for anyone from Britain to want to come over and manage it.

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Originally posted by Paten:
Probably because Unilever is a British conglomerate and Ben and Jerry's is not a big enough business for anyone from Britain to want to come over and manage it.

See the edit. They installed Unilever executives as CEO at least twice.

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“Ben & Jerry's infamously woke CEO has been fired by the ice cream company's fed-up parent company Unilever.

David Stever was booted on March 3 after Unilever bosses grew tired of Ben & Jerry's advocating for divisive progressive causes like Black Lives Matters, DEI, defunding the police and Palestinian rights.

Did Unilever not know what it was buying?
I can't feel sorry for them. They weren't just buying an ice cream, they were buying a woke culture.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Why not dump the fucking company for a profit and be done with the headache?

I agree. Sell it. Let them fail on their own.

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Did Unilever not know what it was buying?
I can't feel sorry for them. They weren't just buying an ice cream, they were buying a woke culture.

When they bought it, the political landscape in the US wasn't as divided as it is now, it was just a couple of kookie hippies with a successful ice cream business. Nobody really cared about someones political leanings when buying a product.

Times change, B&J's founders have gone even farther off the reservation in the lunatic political hate here in the USA.

They sold it for hundreds of millions, and today it's market value is so much higher the original hippies don't have enough cash to buy it.

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When they bought it, the political landscape in the US wasn't as divided as it is now, it was just a couple of kookie hippies with a successful ice cream business. Nobody really cared about someones political leanings when buying a product.

... and that's the way it should be.
Except, in this case, the woke culture kind of defines the product. You can't really get rid of the woke culture without pissing off the customers who buy it for that reason.

I never tried them and never would when I found out that they supported the Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal who murdered Officer Danny Faulkner.

In August, 1995, Ben Cohen, the co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, paid for a full-page ad in the New York Times which included the names of numerous celebrities who offered their support for Abu-Jamal. That letter, signed by many activists from the Hollywood entertainment industry, including the actor Alec Baldwin and Director Oliver Stone, inexplicably took the position that Mumia Abu-Jamal was not the murderer of Officer Faulkner, despite incontrovertible evidence entered into evidence during his trial.