Give a warm welcome to: Ben & Jerry’s Sunny Honey Home – A NEW flavour co-created with refugee entrepreneurs

Ice cream fans will be buzzing about Ben & Jerry’s latest never-before-seen flavour that hits freezers in time for Refugee Week; introducing Sunny Honey Home. Featuring creamy lemon flavour ice cream, gooey & sweet honey caramel swirls and lemon flavour cookies, it’s co-created with people from refugee backgrounds, and brings the home tastes of Morocco, Afghanistan, and Syria to our spoons. What makes the flavour so special is the people who created it and their passion for the ingredients inside. Eight entrepreneurs with refugee backgrounds, together with their allies from TERN (The Entrepreneurial…

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Ben & Jerry’s joins forces with tony’s chocolonely to make chocolate 100% slave free

Two companies known for their passion for social justice have fallen bar over spoon for each other into a Chocolate Love A-Fair. Ben & Jerry’s has joined Tony’s Chocolonely’s mission to end modern slavery and child labour in the chocolate industry. It’s a match made in changemaker heaven. To celebrate their commitment, the ice cream and chocolate makers’ Flavour Gurus got busy making delicious desserts inspired by each other. Introducing, Chocolatey Love A-Fair, a new flavour from Ben & Jerry’s based on Tony’s popular milk caramel sea salt bar; and Tony’s…

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Ben & Jerry’s Takes a Stand Against the Administration’s Agenda & Peacefully Resists Attacks on Company Values

Ben & Jerry’s has launched Pecan Resist, a campaign to lick injustice and champion those fighting to create a more just and equitable nation for us all. To lift up those who are leading the resistance to the current administration’s regressive agenda, Ben & Jerry’s is introducing Pecan Resist, a Limited Batch ice cream flavor celebrating the activists who are continuing to resist oppression, harmful environmental practices and injustice. Pecan Resist will highlight four groups and movements focused on freedom, belonging, community, and justice. Color Of Change designs campaigns powerful…

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1968 Civil Rights Movement Comes To Ben & Jerry’s Vermont Factory

Ben & Jerry’s factory in Waterbury, VT is marking the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign with a special display from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The ice cream factory is Vermont’s largest, single tourist attraction, receiving almost 400,000 people a year. On Friday, June 22, Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Jerry Greenfield dropped the curtain on a new display depicting Dr. King’s 1968 Poor People’s Campaign against racism, poverty, and militarism. “These issues are as pressing today as they were 50 years ago,”…

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UK consumers continue to embrace Fairtrade as market grows

UK shoppers continue to show their support for Fairtrade, with new independent sales figures revealing that retail sales for Fairtrade grew by 7% in 2017, alongside increased business engagement. The independent data from Kantar Worldpanel underline the extent to which the UK public continue to support Fairtrade. Volumes were also up, with a 2.5% growth in the 52 weeks ending 31 December 2017. The figures back up the findings of the Fairtrade Foundation, which show public support for Fairtrade at an all-time high. New data shows that 93% of people…

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