U.S. stocks were headed for a flat open Friday, after finishing the previous session at multi-year highs, as investors hesitated to make big bets before a key vote on a second bailout for Greece.
Rest easy, Twinkie lovers: Hostess Brands, the storied American manufacturer of snack cakes, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday, but said it will continue to churn out Ho Hos, Ding Dongs and other iconic products.
With the season of backyard barbecues upon us, we thought you could use a history lesson on everyone's favorite lawn ornament. From the plastic bird's birth to its modern perch atop the pyramid of campy Americana, here's the quick-and-dirty on the hot pink queen of kitsch.
Since he took the helm in 2001, Campbell Soup chief executive officer Doug Conant has had a great run turning around the once ailing food manufacturer. But now he's facing a challenge no Campbell investor ever wanted to hear: America's growing disinterest in soup.
Campbell Soup Co. is recalling nearly 15 million pounds of canned SpaghettiOs with meatballs because of possible under-processing, the U.S. agriculture department said.
Marketers want to get inside your brain. Literally.
U.S. stocks fell at the start of trading Monday as new concerns about oil and the credit crisis spooked investors.
The Campbell Soup Co. on Thursday said its earnings rose 39 percent for the fourth quarter versus results a year ago that reflected costs related to sales of some European operations.
CNNMoney: Stocks meander higherupdated: Wed Sep 05 2007 21:32:00
U.S. stocks eased higher at the start of trading Thursday as investors considered some economic reports and generally stronger-than-expected retail sales.
Remember when it was all the rage to screen socially and environmentally irresponsible stocks, like sweatshop employers or polluters, from your portfolio? Now a new class of niche investment products has emerged to weed out what some see as even worse: the hoi polloi.
Campbell Soup Co. said Thursday that it is exploring strategic alternatives for Godiva Chocolatier, including a possible sale of the luxury chocolate business.
U.S. stocks skidded at the start of trading Thursday as the credit crisis continued to bother investors.
Campbell Soup Monday laid out plans to sell soup in Russia and China as it tries to capture sales in those fast-growing markets.
Globalization and technology are forcing artists, curators and museum directors to rethink the world of American art.
CNNMoney: Mixed after GMupdated: Mon Nov 21 2005 09:24:00
Stocks were mixed early Monday, as investors welcomed General Motors' restructuring plan but cast a wary eye on rising oil prices.
Like many on Wall Street, the bull will likely be taking a vacation for at least some of the week ahead.
CNNMoney: Weirdest workwearupdated: Fri Oct 21 2005 12:20:00
What's the strangest outfit or article of clothing you have ever seen anyone wear at work?
Fortune: In Living Colorupdated: Mon Sep 19 2005 00:01:00
Call up a mental image of bygone America--men in fedoras, women in stoles--and chances are it will be in black and white. We tend to see the past in monochrome, which is why color photographs from ...
Stocks edged higher early Monday, as lower oil prices gave otherwise reluctant investors a reason to keep last week's rally going.
CNNMoney: After the fireworks?updated: Fri May 20 2005 13:54:00
After driving 2005's biggest week of stock gains, investors return to work next Monday facing a key question -- now what?
Major food manufacturers are pulling back on new products aimed at children, according to a published report, as companies may be getting gun-shy about criticism about unhealthy snacks.
Can't bear the thought of looking at those sad eyes when leaving your pet at the kennel during vacation? You may not have to leave your four-legged friend behind.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - After investors sent stocks tumbling on Friday, will they be ready for some holiday cheer next week?
Waiter, there's a fly in my shares of Campbell Soup.
Reluctant investors will likely keep volume subdued Thursday, unwilling to make big moves ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting next week and the June 30 handover of power in Iraq.
Unless you've been shopping on another planet, you know chocolate is no longer a simple matter of dark or milk, with or without interesting lumps. Supermarkets sell Lindt and Perugina. Godiva, a pi...
Unless you've been shopping on another planet, you know chocolate is no longer a simple matter of dark or milk, with or without interesting lumps.
Last year the second most popular museum exhibit in the world wasn't an Old Master but a young subject: "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," featuring dresses from the former First Lady's w...
Money Magazine: Winners & Losersupdated: Mon Apr 01 2002 00:01:00
An analysis of firms that report more than 40% of defined-contribution-plan assets in company stock shows that for every example of that stock enriching workers, there's an equally compelling examp...
A year and a half ago, the direction for top business school grads was clear: Forget about stodgy investment banks; forget about FORTUNE 500 companies. Head to a dot-com instead, strike it rich, an...
When Lucent Technologies' ex-CEO Henry Schacht took back his old job last month, he didn't ask how much he was getting paid. "I haven't a clue," says the 66-year-old CEO of Lucent. (We don't either...
Thomas O'Hara Chairman of the National Association of Investors Corporation
What do Matt Damon and Alanis Morissette have in common with Chase Manhattan Bank? Dana Giachetto. The money manager to Gen-X icons has recently been tapped by Chase to co-manage a $100 million ven...
As Washington continues to scramble for reasons why last November's elections didn't play out as forecast, a poll by a New York market researcher named Mark DiMassimo has a simple explanation: Not ...
In the good old days, advertisers wanted merely to make you self-conscious about your body. But what about those unsightly spiritual blemishes? That dull, lifeless psyche?
Money Magazine: 1996 Pros' Picks Updateupdated: Sat Aug 01 1998 00:01:00
In May 1996, MONEY asked each of 22 stellar money managers to name a top stock pick and provide a 12-to-18-month target price. How have their recommendations performed? Eighteen of the 22 stocks me...
Psychologists call it "stress eating syndrome." To Freud it was "oral fixation." Whatever it's called, though, you know the impulse: When life turns stressful, you instinctively reach for familiar ...
Interest rates, inflation, consumer confidence--all have long been used to predict stock market performance (with limited success). What about customer satisfaction? Well, study the chart above. Th...
The newspapers have been full of good tidings about the U.S. budget in recent weeks as we contemplate the happy prospect of surpluses--surpluses!--in the near future. But as countless economists an...
Changing jobs isn't as simple as it used to be, as Daniel O'Neill discovered recently. He had signed a noncompete agreement when he went to work as a top line manager for Campbell Soup; then Heinz ...
For more than a year, investors generally have been able to relax and watch stock prices climb steadily higher. Over the past 12 months, the Dow has gained nearly 40%. Recently, though, shareholder...
Can you do well by doing good? Meet Lorraine LoPresti. A lower-middle manager at Campbell Soup, she introduced the Philadelphia chapter of the "Christmas in April" charitable group to St. Joseph's ...
TALK ABOUT stretch targets: Could any corporation operate without working capital? The answer may surprise you. A fast-growing number of companies are setting that audacious goal because pursuing i...
Fortune: Nancy and Tonyaupdated: Mon Mar 21 1994 00:01:00
Neither Kerrigan nor Harding won the gold at Lillehammer -- but they sure spun gelt for themselves and others off the rink. Here's just a sampling of various prize monies:
One day soon you may have to work radical change in an organization -- but how? Four CEOs who have turned companies upside down recently told what they've learned at the FORTUNE 500 Forum in San An...
The pain was global in 1991. FORTUNE's unique list of the world's 500 largest industrial companies shows with few exceptions that the year was bad for business everywhere. Total sales, measured in ...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon May 04 1992 00:01:00
DIGITAL PHONE Tired of getting static from your cordless phone or losing contact when you wander out toward the hedges? The Tropez 900DX, by VTECH Communications of Beaverton, Oregon, uses a digiti...
Fortune: HOW THE 500 PERFORMED updated: Mon Apr 20 1992 00:01:00
The tables on this and the following pages show the biggest achievers by 12 measures, from sales increases to investment performance. We list the top 50 in each category -- beyond that, distinction...
Fortune: CORPORATE FREEBIESupdated: Mon Jan 27 1992 00:01:00
Stuck with out-of-town visitors and don't know what to do with them? How about taking them on a trip to the nearest corporate museum? Stifle that yawn. Such museums offer a lot. Visitors to AT&T's ...
BILLIONAIRES/COVER STORIES 42 MORE THAN EVER IN 1991 There are more people in the ten digits this year than ever before, as the extremely rich get a little richer. by Jennifer Reese
SELLING to customers in the Nineties is like running a hurdle race. In the Eighties, Americans wanted quality, paid up for it, and -- lucky for marketers -- even flaunted it. Now consumer-products ...
''Wacky'' isn't exactly the word that leaps to mind when you think of Price Waterhouse, Clorox, Philip Morris's Kraft General Foods Group, Citicorp, or Adolph Coors. But perhaps it should. These co...
Barbara Burner, a Miami accountant, decided she had to start her own practice to make sure her day would include plenty of time with her children. Lawyer Shaun McElhatton searched long and hard for...
Fortune: OUT OF THE KITCHENupdated: Mon Dec 04 1989 00:01:00
When faced with the prospect of major cost cutting, the CEO may choose to retire early and let someone else do the dirty work. Or, if he doesn't move efficiently enough, perhaps he'll be pushed out...
THE JAPANESE are coming . . . again. The first time they relied on cheap labor and sophisticated manufacturing to sell us cars, VCRs, microchips, and the like. Now, in what could become a second gr...
Fortune: NAME THAT BRANDupdated: Mon Jul 04 1988 00:01:00
Quick, what is the most powerful brand name in America? If you said, ''Coke is it,'' you're right, according to Landor Associates, a San Francisco design and image-consulting firm. Landor queried m...
Most investors expected last year's frenzied takeover activity -- deals totaling more than $164 billion -- to die down after the October crash. Instead, the value of acquisitions is running 50% ahe...
Fortune: Chinese bandstandupdated: Mon Mar 28 1988 00:01:00
A billion Chinese are about to get their first blast of American rock on the radio. Jeff Barry, composer of such bubble gum classics as Leader of the Pack and Da Do Ron Ron, and Donald Altfeld, a p...
If you inherited as much as John T. Dorrance Jr., you'd probably head to Aruba and spend the rest of your days basking in the sun, pina colada in hand. ''That never once crossed my mind,'' insists ...
One of the hottest growth industries in the U.S. is also one of the oldest. Farmers' markets are proliferating like zucchini. Californians can buy fresh fruit and vegetables directly from growers a...
Everything about the latest Supreme Court decision on affirmative action -- lumpily labeled Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County, California, et al. -- seems totally unastonishing. ...
In Search of Excellence unwittingly cast me into the role of an arbiter of corporate performance, one who is routinely asked, ''How excellent is thus and such company?'' Of late, I've been hearing ...
Fortune: NOW HEAR THISupdated: Mon Jul 21 1986 00:01:00
R. GORDON McGOVERN, 59, C.E.O. of Campbell Soup Co., on Japan's small but growing share of the soup market: ''I think people didn't worry enough when the Japanese companies started competing with t...
SOPHISTICATED new techniques of market research are yielding fascinating and sometimes startling facts about how consumers behave and how advertising works -- or doesn't. The new methods, introduce...
Buying habits in Los Angeles differ from those in Des Moines, so consumer products companies like Campbell Soup have gained share in mature markets by catering to local tastes (FORTUNE, September 1...
What one Blue Ridge Farms executive calls ''an invisible industry'' lurks ^ behind the fresh chicken salad, cole slaw, potato salad, and scores of pastas offered these days by supermarkets to healt...
Investors nervous about the sluggishness of the economy normally turn to recession-resistant, ''defensive'' stocks like those of food companies. But a good defense is getting costly: prices of food...
WHEN a National Institutes of Health panel recently recommended that Americans lower their blood cholesterol by reducing fat intake, some food marketers took heart. Fresh fruit and vegetables--$20 ...
TIMES HAVE BEEN cruel for professional stock pickers. The investment advisers who play the stock market with $215 billion in corporate and union pension funds collect cushy fees--as much as 1% of a...
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