Company Profile - Campbell Soup Company

Overview

Campbell Soup Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of convenience food products. It operates in four segments: U.S. Soup, Sauces, and Beverages; Baking and Snacking; International Soup and Sauces; and Other. The U.S. Soup, Sauces, and Beverages segment primarily offers condensed and ready-to-serve soups; broth and canned poultry; pasta sauce; Mexican sauce; canned pasta, gravies, and beans; meal kits; vegetable juice; juice beverages; and tomato juice. The Baking and Snacking segment provides cookies, crackers, and bakery and frozen products in the United States; biscuits in Australia and Asia Pacific; and salty snacks in Australia. The International Soup and Sauces segment offers soup, sauce, broths, and beverages in Europe, Mexico, Latin America, the Asia Pacific region, and Canada. The Other segment distributes products, such as soup, specialty entrees, beverage products, and other prepared foods and products through various food service channels in the United States and Canada. The company?s products are resold to consumers in retail food chains, mass discounters, mass merchandisers, club stores, convenience stores, drug stores, and other retail establishments. Campbell Soup Company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

Culture

As a leading international developer and marketer of many of the world's best known consumer products, Campbell's offers an astounding range of potential-filled career opportunities. We're always looking for dynamic people to join our growing and success-driven team. We encourage you to find out about current openings in any of the following career categories. Qualified candidates will receive full consideration.

Benefits

In 1869, Ulysses S. Grant was sworn into the Presidency and the last stake was driven into the transcontinental railroad. That same year, two men — a fruit merchant named Joseph Campbell and an icebox manufacturer named Abraham Anderson — shook hands in Camden, New Jersey, to form a business that would one day become one of the most recognized in the world and serve as a symbol of Americana: Campbell Soup Company. Originally called the Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company, the business produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments, and minced meats. In 1897, a major milestone occurred when Arthur Dorrance, the general manager of the company, reluctantly hired his 24-year-old nephew to join the company. Dr. John T. Dorrance, a chemist who had trained in Europe, was so determined to join Campbell that he agreed to pay for laboratory equipment out of his own pocket and accept a token salary of just $7.50 per week. Dr. Dorrance quickly made his mark on history with the invention of condensed soup in 1897. By eliminating the water in canned soup, he lowered the costs for packaging, shipping, and storage. This made it possible to offer a 10-ounce can of Campbell’s condensed soup for a dime, versus more than 30 cents for a typical 32-ounce can of soup. The idea became so hot with Americans that in 1922, the company formally adopted "Soup" as its middle name. Advertising helped trumpet the benefits of soup to consumers and contributed to the success. In 1904, the cherubic Campbell Kids were introduced in a series of trolley car advertisements, as a way to appeal to working mothers. Around this same time, the first magazine print ad boasted 21 varieties, each selling for a dime. In the 1930’s, Campbell entered into radio sponsorship, using the familiar "M’m! M’m! Good!" jingle to captivate listeners. When television made its way to American homes in the 1950’s, Campbell introduced TV commercials, and some 40 years later, the Campbell Kids were found dancing to rap songs on the small screen. Today, Campbell remains one of the leading advertisers in the US. Many familiar aspects of the Campbell’s brand are rooted in history. In 1898, a company executive named Herberton Williams attended the traditional football game between rivals Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania. For Williams, the game was nearly as exciting as Cornell’s brilliant new red and white uniforms. Unable to shake the striking image they made on the football field that day, he convinced the company to adopt the colors as their own by changing the labels on cans of Campbell’s Soups. The idea to use condensed soup in recipes originated in a cookbook entitled "Helps for the Hostess" that was published in 1916. After the Second World War, Campbell’s home economists cooked up recipes like "Green Bean Casserole" and "Glorified Chicken" that fed scores of baby boomers and became classic dishes that live on today. In fact, cooking with soup remains so popular that Americans use more than 440 million cans each year in a variety of easy-to-prepare recipes. Campbell’s Soup ranks behind only meat/poultry, pasta, and seasonings/spices as the ingredient most often used to prepare dinner each evening. Some of the most popular varieties of Campbell’s Soups have been enjoyed by generations of soup lovers: Tomato was introduced in 1897, while Cream of Mushroom and Chicken Noodle first appeared in 1934. Combined, Americans consume approximately 2.5 billion bowls of these three soups alone each year. But the company has evolved to fit a changing marketplace also. The condensed line has been expanded to include contemporary varieties like Cream of Broccoli, Double Noodle, and Creamy Chicken Noodle. And the company now offers a line of Healthy Request Soups that combines great taste with less sodium, cholesterol, fat, and calories. Today, Campbell markets almost every type of soup imaginable, from "Chunky" to "Home Cookin’” to “Simply Home” Ready-to-Serve Soups. The number of brand names under the Campbell banner has also grown, and now includes such well-known products as "Pepperidge Farm" breads, cookies, and crackers, "Franco-American" gravies and pastas, "V8" vegetable juices, "Swanson" broths, and Godiva Chocolates. The way those products have been marketed also goes deep into American history. Celebrities from Ronald Reagan and Johnny Carson to Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, Donna Reed, Robin Leach, George Burns, and Gracie Allen have served as spokespeople for various Campbell products. Generations of Americans have grown up on Campbell-sponsored programming including Lassie, Peter Pan, and the famous Campbell Playhouse radio series. In addition to "M’m! M’m! Good!", other Campbell taglines have found their way into popular culture including: "Wow! I could’ve had a V8!" "Uh-oh SpaghettiOs" and "Pepperidge Farm Remembers.” Today, the Campbell name stretches to China, Australia, Argentina, and beyond. Campbell products are available in practically every country in the world. While many of the products Americans know are offered internationally, regional varieties like Watercress and Duck-Gizzard Soup in China and a Cream of Chili Poblano soup in Mexico, have been introduced to respond to cultural differences. Even though the Company’s foods have found their way into homes thousands of miles from the Camden, New Jersey headquarters, they still bear the name of the man who made his mark selling soup from a horse-drawn wagon -- Joseph Campbell.

Diversity

DIVERSITY -- PASSION -- INNOVATION -- GROWTH

Campbell Soup CEO, Doug Conant, says it best, "Only by creating a culture of inclusion ...can we make good on our Campbell Promise---Campbell Valuing People, People Valuing Campbell."

At Campbell Soup Company, creating a thriving environment for our employees is critical to achieving our business goals. We believe that people are the source of all competitive advantage. Therefore, we trust in the strength, diversity and creativity of our people, and understand that viewing the world through many lenses creates a challenging work environment. Our goal as a company is to cultivate a diverse employee population that brings new and richer perspectives to their jobs and enables us to better understand, anticipate and respond to the changed marketplace.

As our markets become increasingly complex, diversity establishes the platform that is essential to unravel that complexity. Through diversity, ideas are shared by many generations of people with different lifestyles from various places. Today's standards and expectations for our workforce are higher-we need to get the best performance from all of our employees. We can't go a good job in the marketplace with diversity if we are not doing a good job inside our company. To ensure our success, we must be the best place to work for everyone. To the extent that we are successful, Campbell Soup Company will continue to develop and thrive in this diverse, multicultural economy.

As part of our Campbell's Vision, "Together We Will Do Extraordinary Things in the Workplace and Marketplace," our commitment to building and strengthening teams has the greatest focus of our leadership. We must have diverse perspectives, talents and teams to meet this business challenge. You won't find a better place for your talent, ideas and experience than at Campbell Soup Company.

People

At Campbell's, we've made a career of searching for the best, the brightest, and the most aggressive professionals — at every level and in every specialty. Powered by ambition, our team members are able to hit the ground running, devouring new challenges, new tasks and new ideas with all the enthusiasm it takes to succeed and to grow.

Beyond their strong academic backgrounds, Team Campbell members share several other key traits. They take an entrepreneurial view of their assignments, focusing on how to develop the best solutions, rather than on how things have "always" been done. Within the context of accomplishing stated goals, they are risk takers, able to effectively weigh advantages against uncertainties. And most importantly, they know how to work within a team — getting the best out of co-workers, and giving their best in every situation.

Benefits

At Campbell’s, we believe that exceptional people who work for us deserve competitive benefits. We offer a comprehensive assortment of benefit programs as varied and satisfying as our globally recognized brands!

Health and Protection

Medical

Dental

Life Insurance and Accident

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Health Care and Dependent Care Spending Accounts

Retirement

Portable Pension Plan

401(k) Plan with Company Match

Retiree Health Care Access

HealthWorks

Employee Assistance/Work Life Program

Disease and Lifestyle Management Services

24/7 NurseLine

Smoking Cessation Program

Health and Wellness News/Website

Group Fitness Discounts

Your Benefits Advocate – Health/Disability Plan Assistance

LifeWorks

Scholarship Program

Tuition Reimbursement Program

Adoption Assistance Program

Credit Union

Group Auto and Home Insurance

Matching Charitable Gifts Program

“Dollars for Doers” Community Service Program

For Non-Union Regular full time and part time employees at most US locations