Ice cream
Frozen dessert
Follow Ice cream on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on Butterfinger, Grimace Shake, Baby Ruth, Affogato, Gelato, Häagen-Dazs, Ben & Jerry's, Amul, Baked Alaska, Baskin-Robbins, Kulfi, Milkshake, Spumoni, Tartufo, Tutti frutti, Bananas Foster ... and more.
| March 2025 | Ben & Jerry's filed a federal court complaint against Unilever, alleging they were fired for expressing sociopolitical beliefs, including calling for a Gaza ceasefire and supporting student protests. |
| 2025 | Unilever expects to complete the divestment of its ice cream brands, including Ben & Jerry's, by the end of the year. |
| March 18 2025 | Ben & Jerry's filed a court document claiming Unilever unlawfully removed Dave Stever as CEO in retaliation for social and political activism. |
| March 2025 | Mixue Group goes public through an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, raising several billion US dollars. |
| 2024 | A report was produced detailing the UK ice cream market, which is worth £1.8 billion, with 14 million adults buying ice cream as a treat. |
| 2024 | A market report highlighted that 14 million adults in the United Kingdom buy ice cream as a treat, with the market valued at £1.8 billion. |
| November 2024 | Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever, claiming the parent company interfered with its attempts to support Palestinian refugees and threatened to replace and sue its board members. |
| July 2024 | Ben and Jerry's launched the 'Progress Comes in Many Flavors' advertising campaign, which promoted progressive social actions including establishing libraries for banned books and organizing nude bicycle rides. |
| July 2024 | Amul featured Maya Neelakantan, a ten-year-old guitar prodigy who auditioned for America's Got Talent season 19 in June 2024. |
| March 2024 | Mixue achieved a significant milestone by ranking first among fresh beverage makers in China and second globally in terms of store outlets and cup delivery, demonstrating its rapid expansion and market dominance. |
| March 19 2024 | Unilever announced it would divest its ice cream brands, including Ben & Jerry's, as part of a strategic restructuring to create a more focused company. The divestment plan includes cutting 7,500 jobs and spinning off brands like Cornetto, Magnum, Talenti, and Wall's. |
| January 2024 | The chair of the Ben & Jerry's board called for a 'permanent and immediate ceasefire' in the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. |
| August 2023 |
Shinkansen too hard ice cream
Announcement made that onboard sales on Tokaido Shinkansen trains will be discontinued on October 31 due to labor shortages and declining demand.
|
| July 4 2023 | Ben & Jerry's posted a controversial Independence Day tweet claiming the United States was founded on 'stolen Indigenous land' and suggesting Mount Rushmore should be returned to the Lakota people. The Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation subsequently expressed interest in acquiring Ben & Jerry's Vermont headquarters, which is located on historical Abenaki territory. |
| May 15 2023 | Dave Stever was announced as the new CEO after Matthew McCarthy's retirement. |
| April 30 2023 | Mixue hosts an Ice Cream Festival at Mayan Beach Water Park in Wuhan, Hubei Province. |
| March 2023 | The investigative report by The Beijing News was published, leading to 4,435 complaints on the Black Cat Complaint Platform, primarily focused on food safety concerns at Mixue Ice Cream & Tea stores. |
| February 2023 | Mixue products in Indonesia received official Halal certification from the Institute for Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Assessment of the Indonesian Ulema Council (LPPOM MUI), addressing previous concerns about the halal status of their ingredients. |
| February 2023 | Mixue opens its first store in Sydney, Australia, with additional stores later opening in Melbourne and Brisbane. |
| January 2023 | The New York Times revealed that Ben & Jerry's suppliers were employing illegal migrant children, which occurred shortly after the company had partnered with Tony's Chocolonely to raise awareness about ending child labor in the chocolate industry. |
| 2022 | Mixue purchases over 9,000 tons of tea, supports 50,000 tea farmers, provides a platform for 11,000 franchisees, and creates over 500,000 jobs. Launches a 6.5 million yuan scholarship in five Henan Province universities. |
| 2022 | Implemented a one-year reduction of RMB200 million for franchisees in operation since December 31, 2021, introducing a 'more than 50% material reduction' policy for ingredients, packaging materials, consumables, and machinery. |
| 2022 | Mixue expands into multiple Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, The Philippines, Laos, and Myanmar, and also opens branches in South Korea and Japan. |
| December 2022 | Journalists from The Beijing News investigated Mixue Ice Cream & Tea stores in Nanjing, uncovering issues with labor practices and food safety, including lack of labor contracts and use of 'discarded' ingredients. |
| September 2022 | Ben & Jerry's rebranded its cold brew coffee flavor to 'Change is Brewing' to highlight Black voter participation and support Black Voters Matter activities. |
| July 2022 |
Shinkansen too hard ice cream
Shinkansen ice cream began being sold in vending machines at Tokyo Station, expanding its distribution across multiple train lines and stations.
|
| July 2022 | A Mixue drink shop in Liaocheng Chiping County was fined 5,000 yuan for illegal use of child labor. |
| July 15 2022 | Ben & Jerry's and Unilever agreed to pursue dispute resolution via mediation, just before a scheduled lawsuit hearing. |
| July 5 2022 | Ben & Jerry's sued Unilever to block the sale of its Israeli business, arguing it threatened the brand's integrity and values. |
| June 29 2022 | Unilever sold the Ben & Jerry's division in Israel to American Quality Products. Ben & Jerry's publicly disagreed with this decision, stating they would no longer profit from Ben & Jerry's sales in Israel and maintaining their stance against selling ice cream in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. |
| May 2022 | Ben & Jerry's launched 'Mootopia', a pilot project across 15 supplier farms in the US and Netherlands aimed at reducing farm emissions intensity to half the US industry average by the end of 2024, focusing on regenerative agriculture practices. |
| April 11 2022 | Debuted an updated logo and new tagline 'Seize the Yay'. |
| April 2 2022 | A Mixue drink shop in Tiantai County was fined 12,500 yuan by the local comprehensive administrative enforcement bureau for illegally employing a 15-year-old girl, violating China's child labor laws. |
| 2021 |
Shinkansen too hard ice cream
The nickname was officially adopted as the sales name for the ice cream product.
|
| 2021 | Mixue Indonesia began efforts to obtain halal certification, which was initially halted during the halal consultation stage due to multiple challenges including ingredient sourcing and COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. |
| 2021 | Mixue Ice Cream & Tea established a fruit supply base in Anyue County, employing over 6,500 fruit farmers to supply lemons annually. |
| September 30 2021 | Mixue makes an initial public offering and goes public on the stock market. |
| September 14 2021 | The State of New Jersey gave Unilever 90 days' notice of divestment action. |
| September 9 2021 | The State of Arizona committed to completely divest from Unilever by September 21. |
| August 3 2021 | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis placed Unilever on a list of 'Scrutinized Companies that Boycott Israel' in response to Ben & Jerry's decision regarding Palestinian territories. |
| July 2021 | During extreme rainfall and severe floods in Henan Province, Mixue launched extensive disaster relief operations, donating a total of 26 million yuan across multiple regions. The company set up a relief command center and mobilized warehouses to aid disaster-stricken areas. |
| July 19 2021 | Ben & Jerry's announced plans to end sales in Occupied Palestinian Territory, deciding not to renew the franchise with American Quality Products - Ben & Jerry's Israel in 2022 due to concerns about Israeli settlements in the territory. |
| March 2021 |
Shinkansen too hard ice cream
Shinkansen ice cream began online sales as a replacement for in-train sales, selling out immediately after launch.
|
| February 2021 |
Shinkansen too hard ice cream
In-car sales of Shinkansen ice cream were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
|
| January 7 2021 | Ben & Jerry's called for the resignation, impeachment, and invoking of the 25th Amendment against President Donald Trump following the January 6 United States Capitol attack. |
| 2020 | Ben & Jerry's joined the '#StopHateForProfit' campaign, halting paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram to protest racism and hate on the platform. |
| 2020 | Free Cone Day was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the beginning of a hiatus that would continue through 2023. |
| 2020 | During protests against racial prejudice following George Floyd's murder, Ben & Jerry's publicly called for Americans to 'dismantle white supremacy' and endorsed the 'Defund the Police' movement. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Ice cream, Amul, Ben & Jerry's, Mixue Ice Cream & Tea, Baskin-Robbins & Shinkansen too hard ice cream, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.