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...Unilever board member and activist investor Nelson Peltz stepped down last month as chair of Jewish human rights organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Center after it called for a boycott of Ben & Jerry’s, which...
...Schumacher took over last July and has a mandate from the board, including billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz, to shake up the company after years of lacklustre growth....
...At lunch as in business, Nelson Peltz makes his preferences known....
...Unilever was awarded $20.9mn to make lower-carbon ice cream for brands such as Talenti and Ben & Jerry’s....
...Please send me tips and story ideas, or just say hi, at lee.harris@ft.com. Could Big Tech drive a nuclear renaissance?...
...The company said that the ice cream division, home to brands including Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s, would fare better as a standalone business....
...May DD suggest a couple new flavours for Ben & Jerry’s: ‘Banana (corporate) split’ and ‘The full Nelson’....
...Setting out the measures on Tuesday, Unilever said that the ice cream division, home to brands including Wall’s, Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s and accounting for 16 per cent of overall sales, would be better...
...However, Schumacher has faced mounting challenges, including an investigation by the UK competition watchdog over Unilever’s green claims, tensions with its ice-cream brand Ben & Jerry’s over its political...
...The Magnum and Marmite maker has also reportedly considered the sale of some of its North American ice cream brands, excluding Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum....
...Unilever has begun a search to replace chair Nils Andersen in the latest stage of a leadership shake-up since the consumer goods giant became a target for activist investor Nelson Peltz....
...Unilever is also facing pressure from US activist investor Nelson Peltz, founder of Trian Partners, who joined its board a year ago and is a top-10 shareholder....
...In one high-profile case, a former CIA operative named Jerry Lee — who was sentenced to prison for conspiring to spy for China — handed China’s Ministry for State Security the names of Chinese nationals...
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...Kevin Feige, the architect of Marvel’s cinematic universe strategy, remains in place, alongside Pixar’s Pete Docter, Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy and Jennifer Lee, chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation...
...The most prolific activist during the first quarter was Align Partners, a small South Korean firm founded by former private equity executive Changhwan Lee....
...“This Loving Light of Mine” is a retitled version of a gospel song with testifying vocals and Jerry Lee Lewis-style piano soloing....
...An internal fight with Ben & Jerry’s over the sale of products in the occupied Palestinian territories rumbles on....
...The same month it was revealed that the American investor Nelson Peltz’s activist Trian fund had taken a stake in Unilever. In May, Peltz joined the board....
...Unilever has turned to the head of a Dutch dairy co-operative tosucceed Alan Jope as chief executive, accelerating a change inleadership after the consumer goods group became a target for activist investor Nelson...
...The attempt by Ben & Jerry’s to pull out of Israeli settlements prompted a series of US pension funds to divest from Unilever in protest, while Nelson Peltz, the activist investor whose Trian fund now owns...
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...Marc FilippinoOne big investor who opposed Ben & Jerry’s move is the powerful financier Nelson Peltz....
...I mean, come on, John Lee Hooker…” Gore nods slowly. “Yep, John Lee Hooker, Tom Waits, Ian Curtis, John Lydon.” One image that stands out for Corbijn, however, is a portrait of Nelson Mandela....
...The maker of Knorr stock cubes, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and Domestos bleach raised prices 13.3 per cent in the final three months of 2022 and said they would continue rising as it faced pressure on margins...
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