Unilever isn’t displaying leadership by selling Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever isn’t displaying leadership by selling Ben & Jerry’s in Israel—just avoidance ...Middle East

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When Ben & Jerry’s announced in July 2021 that it would stop selling ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, it immediately created a problem for its parent company.Unilever, a huge corporation that owns a range of brands, some of which seek to have particularly “ethical” operations enshrined by the third-party B Corp certification, and many of which don’t, made an arrangement with Ben & Jerry’s when it bought the brand in 2000. The Vermont-based ice cream maker remained in charge of its own “social mission” and retained an independent board, while UK-based Unilever got decision-making powers over finance and operations.But financial and operational decisions don’t happen in a vac

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