ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

ECONOMICS

ENTREPRENEURS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who started Ben & Jerry’s?
A
Ben Cohen & Jerry Seinfeld
B
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenwald
C
Ben Cohen & Jerry Glenburg
D
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -But Cohen wasn’t having much luck selling his pottery and Greenfield had been rejected by medical schools, so they agreed to open some kind of store together. They incorporated their business in 1977, initially thinking of opening a bagel shop.

Detailed explanation-2: -Founders Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield met in 7th grade gym class in Long Island in 1963. They were the two slowest kids in class. Ben and Jerry moved to Vermont and completed a $5 correspondence course in ice cream-making from Penn State University. They got a perfect score because the test was open book.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ice Cream Biz Cohen and Greenfield sold Ben & Jerry’s in 2000 to Unilever, a giant Dutch-British corporation. As of 2002, Cohen remained on the Ben & Jerry’s corporate board of directors, a subsidiary of Unilever. Cohen and his wife, Cynthia, a psychologist, have a daughter, Aretha, and live in Jericho, Vermont.

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