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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....
...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....
...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...
...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...
...Marc FilippinoOne big investor who opposed Ben & Jerry’s move is the powerful financier Nelson Peltz....
...Unilever had also faced pressure from activist investor Nelson Peltz, who owns 1.5 per cent of the UK consumer goods group and is joining the board next month....
...His response to Ben & Jerry’s, however, might be summed up as “no, not like that”....
...Activist investor Nelson Peltz called on Washington to stem the crisis....
...The dispute between Ben & Jerry’s Homemade (BJH) and Unilever, via an intermediate holding company called Conopco, is unedifying (“Unilever stops paying board members at Ben & Jerry’s”, Report, August 4)...
...Activist Nelson Peltz, granted a board seat in May, will see to that. An unanswered question lingers as to whether investment can deliver growth....
...made it a target for activist investor Nelson Peltz....
...The consumer goods group has already faced pressure over Ben & Jerry’s: activist investor Nelson Peltz last year met chief executive Alan Jope at the request of several Jewish organisations and Israeli officials...
...business must avoid closed shop / From Jonathan Petrides, Founder and Chief Executive, allplants (Certified B Corporation), London N14, UK Let’s recognise business isn’t always the enemy / From Ciaran Nelson...
...Its failed attempts to buy UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer healthcare business, a politically fraught fight with Ben & Jerry’s and the arrival of the billionaire activist Nelson Peltz on Unilever...
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