Here we were thinking that the condiment war between Unilever and vegan spread maker Hampton Creek Inc. would linger into 2015, giving comedians and the business press lots more time to crack mayonnaise jokes.
But it was not to be. On Thursday, Unilever, the maker of Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise, abruptly dismissed its false advertising suit against eggless mayonnaise upstart Hampton Creek, which makes Just Mayo. Unilever’s attorneys at Debevoise & Plimpton filed a one-sentence notice of voluntary dismissal in federal court in Newark, handing what appears to be a speedy victory to Hampton Creek and its lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
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