Jerry Greenfield a co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s visits Dublin (Sept 2007) to launch the search for the 2008 Irish Ben & Jerry’s Climate Change Ambassador.
One of the world’s favourite, unconventional business men Jerry, who set up Ben & Jerry’s with his friend Ben Cohen after completing a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making)in 1978 in an old gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. The company has since opened almost 200 franchised shops and reports earnings of $237 million annually.
I had the pleasusre of meeting the Jerry and got him to pose for afew pictures, on the roof garden of the Fitzwilliam Hotel (St. Stephens Green, Dublin)
