Ben & Jerry's

Ben and Jerry’s is an American ice cream company. It sells different kinds of ice creams. The company was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. In 2000, Ben and Jerry's was sold to Unilever, a British-Dutch company.

 History 
In 1977, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield took a course on ice cream making at Pennsylvania State University. On May 5, 1978, they opened a first ice cream shop. It was in a gas station in Burlington, Vermont. One year later,  they had the first free cone day. This is now a celebration all over the world.
In 1980, Ben and Jerry got space in a building in South Champlain Street in Burlington. They started packing their ice cream in pint containers. This is still the most common size of container. In 1981, the first Ben & Jerry’s store opened in Shelburne, Vermont. In 1983, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was used to make“the world’s largest ice cream sundae” in St. Albans, Vermont. The sundae weighed 27,102 pounds. In 1986, Ben & Jerry’s made its “Cowmobile”. This was a Ben and Jerry’s van. It was used to pass out free ice cream. The Cowmobile was driven by Ben and Jerry themselves. Four months later, the “Cowmobile” caught fire near Cleveland. Ben said it looked like “the world’s biggest baked Alaska.” In 1988, Ben and Jerry’s won the title of U.S Small Business Persons Of The Year awarded by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

 Flavors and Sizes 
Ben and Jerry's ice cream are sold in pints, pint slices, non-dairy pints, scoop shop flavors, frozen yogurt pints, mini cups and quarts. Top ten flavors:

Half Baked
Cherry Garcia
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Chocolate Fudge Brownie
The Tonight Dough

Americone Dream
Phish Food
Chunky Monkey
Strawberry Cheesecake
Salted Caramel

 Former flavors 
 Schweedy Balls
 Wavy Gravvy
 Fossil Fuel
 Turtle Soup
 This is Nuts
 Aloha Macademia
 Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Frozen Yogurt
 Sugar Plum
 Peanut Butter and Jelly
 Urban Jumble
 Créme Brulee
 Devil's Food Chocolate
 Cow Powder
 Dublin Mudslide
 Tennessee Mud
 Coconutterly Fair
 Chocolate Macadamia
 Holy Cannoli
 Wild Maine Blueberry
 Purple Passion Fruit
 Economic crunch
 White Russion
 Peanuts! Popcorn!
 Rainforest Crunch
 Magic Brownie

 Locations 
Ben & Jerry’s has stores all over the world. There are stores in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States.

 Resources 
"Ben & Jerry’s" Ben & Jerry’s. Ben & Jerry’s. <http://www.benjerry.co.uk/ourflavours/ >. (2010)

Sources

Category:1978 establishments in the United States
Category:American food companies
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