Unilever stock loses $2.5B amid calls to boycott Ben & Jerry’s over tweet
Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational firm, slid 0.8% Thursday after closing down 0.5% the previous day.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,” the brand’s official Twitter account and a statement on Ben & Jerry’s website trumpeted.Shares of Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational firm, fell by as much as 0.63% during trading on Wall Street on Wednesday.
Ben & Jerry’s landed in hot water over the Independence Day holiday weekend when it posted a tweet that read: “This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”
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