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In 1978, with a total investment of $12,000, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened a homemade ice cream parlor in an abandoned gas station in Burlington, Vermont, and set out to serve the best ice cream they could make. Less than fifteen years later, Ben & Jerry's has grown into a national phenomenon, with annual sales of over $100 million.
But Ben & Jerry's wasn't just another success story, it was a whole new kind of company. First, the founders believed that work should be rewarding in itself. Their unofficial motto was, "If it's not fun, why do it?" Second, they believed that business should give something back to the community that supports it.
They started by giving away free ice cream and sponsoring local festivals, but as the company grew, their efforts became more ambitious, and Ben & Jerry's was soon recognized as one of the most progressive, socially active corporations in America.
Chico Lager, former CEO of Ben & Jerry's, has truly given the inside scoop on the company's remarkable history. Filled with funny and surprising anecdotes of Ben and Jerry's offbeat schemes and the obstacles they faced in putting their business philosophy into practice, this is one of the most inspiring - and certainly one of the most entertaining - business books of our time.
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Ben & Jerry's (Firm), Biography, Businesspeople, History, Ice cream industry, Social responsibility of business, Businessmen, Desserts, Business enterprisesPeople
Ben Cohen, Jerry GreenfieldPlaces
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Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop: How Two Real Guys Built a Business with a Social Conscience and a Sense of Humor
May 16, 1995, Three Rivers Press
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0517883708 9780517883709
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Ben & Jerry's, the inside scoop: how two real guys built a business with social conscience and a sense of humor
1994, Crown Publishers
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0517597160 9780517597163
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"Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were the two slowest, chubbiest kids in their seventh-grade gym class, and they were lagging far behind the pack of runners up ahead on the gravelly oval track out behind Merrick Avenue Junior High School."
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