Ben & Jerry's facts for kids

Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings, Inc.
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Food Processing
Founded	Burlington, Vermont (1978)
Founder	Ben Cohen; Jerry Greenfield
Headquarters	South Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Key people	Jostein Solheim CEO; Ben Cohen co-founder; Jerry Greenfield co-founder
Products	Ice cream
Parent	Unilever NV

Ben and Jerry’s is an American ice cream company. It sells different kinds of ice creams. It was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. In 2000, Ben and Jerry's was sold to Unilever, a British-Dutch company.

History

In 1977, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield completed a course on ice cream making at Pennsylvania State University. On May 5, 1978, they opened a first ice cream shop in a gas station in Burlington, Vermont. In 1979, on the first anniversary they had the first free cone day. This is now a celebration all over the world. In 1980, Ben and Jerry got space in a building in South Champlain Street in Burlington and started packing their ice cream in pint containers. In 1981, the first Ben & Jerry’s official shop opened on Route 7 in Shelburne, Vermont. In 1983, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream was used to build “the world’s largest ice cream sundae” in St. Albans, Vermont. The sundae weighed 27,102 pounds. In 1986, Ben & Jerry’s made its “Cowmobile”. This was a Ben and Jerry’s van to pass out free ice cream. The Cowmobile was driven by Ben and Jerry themselves. Four months later the “Cowmobile” burned down outside Cleveland. Ben said it looked like “the world’s biggest baked Alaska.” In 1988, Ben and Jerry’s won the title of U.S Small Business Persons Of The Year awarded by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Flavors and Sizes

Ben & Jerry's display freezer at a local Dominos.

You can get Ben and Jerry's ice cream in pints, pint slices, non-dairy pints, scoop shop flavors, frozen yogurt pints, mini cups and quarts. Top ten flavors:

Half Baked
Cherry Garcia
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Chocolate Fudge Brownie
The Tonight Dough
Americone Dream
Phish Food
Chunky Monkey
Strawberry Cheesecake
Salted Caramel

Flavor Graveyard

Schweedy balls
Wavy Gravvy
Fossil Fuel
Turtle Soup
This is Nuts
Aloha Macademia
Chocolate chip cookie dough frozen yogurt
Sugar Plum
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Urban Jumble
Créme Brulee
Devil's Food Chocolate
Cow Powder
Dublin Mudslide
Tennessee Mud
Coconutterly Fair
Chocolate Macadamia
Holy Cannoli
Wild Maine Blueberry
Purple Passion Fruit
Economic crunch
White Russion
Peanuts! Popcorn!
Rainforest Crunch
magic brownie
and many more

REST IN PEACE MY FRIENDS :)

Locations

Ben & Jerry’s has their shops all over the world, in places like Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom,and the United States.

Resources

"Ben & Jerry’s" Ben & Jerry’s. Ben & Jerry’s. <http://www.benjerry.co.uk/ourflavours/ >. (2010)

Images for kids

Jerry Greenfield (left) and Ben Cohen (right) in 2010
A pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
Ben & Jerry's Puerto Rico, U.S. sidewalk café
Ben & Jerry's ice-cream branch at the United Square Shopping Mall in Singapore
Woman in cow costume promoting Free Cone Day outside a Ben & Jerry's shop in Stockholm, Sweden