Thursday Night Write: Ben Cohen in Conversation with TNM Founder Shari Foos
Thu, Jan 18
|Zoom
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Time & Location
Jan 18, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PST
Zoom
About the Event
About Guest Ben Cohen:
Ben Cohen was born in Brooklyn in 1951 and brought up in Merrick, NY. In 1978, he and his longtime friend, Jerry Greenfield, started a homemade ice cream parlor in an old gas station in Burlington, Vermont. The ice cream was well received and after a few years, Ben & Jerry’s started to distribute pints to grocery stores in New England and eventually nationally and internationally. Along the way, Ben held the positions of scooper, crepe maker, truck driver, Director of Marketing, Sales Director, CEO, and Chairman of what became a $300 Million-a- year public corporation.
In 2000, despite his efforts to keep the company independent, Ben & Jerry’s was sold to Unilever.
Ben and Jerry have received numerous awards and recognition, including the Corporate Giving award from the Council on Economic Priorities, the US Small Business of the Year Award from President Ronald…