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1970s
Ben & Jerry's started with a $12,000 investment by opening a shop in Vermont and soon celebrated their one-year anniversary -
1980s
- They start supplying ice-cream to grocery stores
- Another store opens in Vermont
- Start an organisation to fund community projects
- Ben and Jerry are named "U.S. Small Business Person Of The Year" at the White House
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1990s
- They start a campaign to support "Farm Aid"
- Joins a NGO to raise funds for children
- Opens a new store in UK
- Introduce "fat-free" ice-creams
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2000s
- Ben and Jerry's becomes a part of Unilever
- Help Greenpeace to protest against oil drilling in Alaska
- Protested against American govt's approval to eat meat from cloned animals
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2010s
- Fight against GMOs and start using all organic products in their icecream
