General Info

Ben & Jerry's produces a wide variety of ice-cream and ice-cream novelties, using dairy products from a Vermont dairy cooperative. The company uses milk and cream from cows that have not been treated with the synthetic hormone rBGH, and states its position on rBGH on its labels. Its range of ice-creams include chocolate fudge brownie, vanilla caramel fudge, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate chip cookie dough, and oatmeal cookie chunk. The company s pint flavors are packaged in unbleached paperboard containers, using brown-kraft unbleached paperboard. Ben & Jerry's is a wholly owned autonomous subsidiary of Unilever, and contributes more than $1 million annually for community groups and nonprofit organizations through Ben & Jerry's Foundation. Its store offers children and adults clothing, hats, toys, mugs and ceramics, and read and writables. Ben & Jerry s is headquartered in South Burlington, Vt.