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Campbell's soups to be mmm, mmm, more expensive
Campbell Soup Co. will raise prices on its condensed soups by 5% in June as the company tries to turn itself around amid sliding profits. Blame high production costs and continued inflation for the price increase, according to Campbell Senior Vice...
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Consumer Confidential: J. Crew purchased, Campbell Soup suffers, J&J's latest recall
Money & CompanyHere's your toast-of-the-town Tuesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- Clothing retailer J. Crew has new owners. The company is being acquired for about $3 billion by a pair of private-equity firms: TPG Capital, a former owner...... -
Consumer Confidential: More jobs, bad SpaghettiOs, dead letters
Money & CompanyHere's your fight-them-on-the-beaches Friday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --We're No. 3! California's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 12.4% in April, giving us the third-highest jobless rate in the country. Nevada's now No. 1, with... -
SpaghettiOs, Marie Callender frozen dinners yanked in food recalls, and an agency brawl over beef
Money & CompanyTime to go check your kitchen cabinets and freezers, folks. Late Thursday night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a pair of recalls of two beloved grocery products after red flags were raised over processing problems and food safety concerns..... -
Apple iAd partners say they're happy with early results
L.A. Times Tech BlogApple's iAd mobile advertising platform is getting favorable reviews from the companies whose advertisements were the first to run on the new system, including Dove soap-maker Unilever and Nissan. App makers like Dictionary.com and CBS Mobile have said... -
Parents seek ways to make kids eat vegetables
Special to The TimesSusan Phillips' 4-year-old son Alex eats vegetables every day -- he just doesn't know it. Phillips purées his servings of green beans, spinach, sweet potatoes and squash and hides them in a peanut butter and brown sugar-sweetened porridge that she makes...Tags: Education, University of California, Berkeley, Potatoes, Foods and Beverages, Science and Technology
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Donald E. Goerke, creator of SpaghettiO's, dies at 83
Daily DishDonald E. Goerke, the Campbell Soup Co. executive who hit the bull's-eye of prepared foods by overseeing the creation of the kid-friendly circular pasta called SpaghettiOs, has died. He was 83. Gorke died Sunday of heart failure at his home...... -
Arthur E. Bartlett dies at 76; co-founder of Century 21
Arthur E. Bartlett, a consummate salesman and co-founder of the real estate behemoth Century 21, died New Year's Eve at his Coronado home after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease and other sicknesses, his daughter Stacy Bartlett Renshaw said. He was 76....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Death, Sales, Business, Family
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Donald E. Goerke dies at 83; 'the Daddy-O of SpaghettiOs'
Donald E. Goerke, the Campbell Soup Co. executive who hit the bull's-eye of prepared foods by overseeing the creation of the kid-friendly circular pasta called SpaghettiOs, has died. He was 83.
Gorke died Sunday of heart failure at his home in Delran, N....Tags: U.S. Army, Companies and Corporations, Death, Armed Forces, Defense
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Michelle Obama's foray into food politics sparks industry debate over future of agribusiness
Top of the TicketThis week, a coalition of food and beverage manufacturers -- including Campbell Soup, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft Foods and PepsiCo -- signed up for First Lady Michelle Obama's campaign to reduce childhood obesity within a generation.... -
To sell stuff, companies want to read your brain -- but are they even close?
Booster ShotsI just finished reading an article recently published online in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience about "neuromarketing" -- the idea that brain scans might better reveal our propensity to buy something than do focus groups, surveys or pre-market... -
Joel Stein: Finally, Some Prime-Time Racism
I'VE NEVER BEEN interested in "Survivor," but the new, racist "Survivor" — that, I was psyched about. If "Battle of the Network Stars" made good TV, weekly competitions between poorly fed "tribes" of African Americans, whites, Asians and Latinos...Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, New York City Council, Civil Rights, Football, Coca-Cola Co.
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