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...Unilever, which also owns brands from Dove soap and Cif cleaning products to Magnum ice creams and Marmite, said in December 2022 that the lawsuit had been resolved....
...Unilever cools on ice cream I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. Except, apparently, at the European consumer giant Unilever....
...Companies such as Unilever, which makes Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s ice creams and Hellmann’s mayonnaise, are conscious of changing consumer habits and regulatory pressures to provide a healthier offering....
...In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, ice cream vans also brought cold treats to labourers this summer, it added....
...There is definitely a demand for convenience: even in the densely packed Japanese market, konbini revenues rose by 4 per cent last year, with a hot summer increasing drink and ice-cream sales....
...The company spent billions of dollars acquiring truck-stop operator Pilot Flying J and insurance conglomerate Alleghany in recent years, adding them to a portfolio that includes ice cream purveyor Dairy...
...These include catering, alcoholic drinks, confectionery, crisps and savoury snacks, hot food, sports drinks, hot takeaways, ice cream, soft drinks and mineral water....
...cream time.”...
...The impact of higher interest rates and slower economic growth was evident across the businesses, which span the Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, aeroplane parts manufacturer Precision Castparts and the BNSF...
...Unilever on Thursday said it had resolved a lawsuit brought by the board of its ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s over sales in the occupied Palestinian territories, ending an 18-month dispute that laid bare...
...“Instead of peace pops, he could make tank pops,” Shahmeer Halepota, a lawyer for the ice cream maker, said during the hearing....
...In June, Unilever sold the Israeli business of the ice cream maker to a local licensee....
...As the company grew, it developed a three-part mission, encompassing ice-cream, sustainable economic growth and social improvements....
...The company’s underlying businesses, which include the BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, generated a $6.7bn profit in the final three months of the year, down 8 per cent from the prior year...
...Authenticity is the foundation of great marketing, in ice cream and politics....
...That prompted the ice cream brand to sue its parent company in a case that is continuing after attempts to reach a settlement through mediation failed....
...It is also the latest shift by the conglomerate, which spans the Geico insurer, BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, into blue-chip technology companies....
...Ben & Jerry’s had previously said it would not renew AQP’s licence to distribute the ice cream....
...Ben & Jerry’s is suing Unilever over a dispute about ice cream sales in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, further straining relations between the brand and its UK parent company....
...Unilever has sold its Israeli Ben & Jerry’s business to a local licensee in an attempt to draw a line under a bitter spat between the ice cream brand and the government....
...When he tweeted a frog emoji with a picture of an ice-cream cone in February 2021, Reddit posts launched into theories about what it meant for GameStop shares....
...Renew my licence and leave ice cream out of the political debate.”...
...cream sales in West Bank (FT) PwC sued by auditor after ‘pub golf’ brain injury (FT) Seized superyacht to be auctioned to pay JPMorgan loan (BBG) UK’s FCA fines Citigroup £12.5mn for trading oversight...
...Instead, Buffett directed Berkshire to pump much of the cash that the company’s various businesses — which span insurer Geico, BNSF Railway and the Dairy Queen ice cream chain — were generating in 2020 and...
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