Tag: cofounder
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns over dispute with owner Unilever
By Joe Hernandez Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the beloved ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, announced this week that he’s resigned from the company he helped create in the late 1970s over an ongoing dispute with its parent company, Unilever. The Vermont-based ice cream maker, with its zany packaging and inventive flavors, has long been…
‘Sounds like censorship to me.’ O cinema co-founder slams proposed eviction over film
Mandalit del Barco O Cinema South Beach, an independent, non-profit movie theater, has been showing sold-out screenings of the controversial, Oscar-winning film No Other Land. But the Miami Beach’s mayor calls the documentary “anti-semitic” and is now trying to cut off the city’s funding and lease to the cinema, which is operating on city property.…