The founders of Ben & Jerry’s have called on parent company Unilever to allow the ice-cream brand to operate as an “independently owned company”. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who set up Vermont-headquartered Ben & Jerry’s in 1978 before Unilever’s acquisition in 2000, have penned a letter to Unilever ahead of the targeted separation of ice cream in mid-November. The planned spin-off was first announced early in 2024 and the entity then proclaimed as The Magnum Ice Cream Company (TMICC), which will be ...