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The Consumer Brands Association — which represents the $2.1 trillion food, beverage and consumer products industry that employs 2.1 million workers — urged federal agencies to "move quickly, anticipate challenges, promptly answer questions" and partner with businesses to implement the new plan. "The Consumer Brands Association and our member companies stand ready to partner with you in getting Americans vaccinated," Freeman wrote.

When the thing your company is named for is no longer selling all that well, that's a big problem. Just ask Campbell Soup, which reported lousy earnings Tuesday because of weak soup sales. Shares of Campbell Soup (CPB) plunged more than 7% after the food giant said that soup sales in the U.S. fell 9% from a year ago. The company also lowered its earnings outlook for fiscal 2018.

The stock of Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) is a huge mover today! About 2.02 million shares traded or 26.25% up from the average. Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) has declined 12.82% since August 31, 2016 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 29.52% the S&P500.The move comes after 7 months negative chart setup for the $14.49B company. It was reported on Aug, 31 by Barchart.com. We have $45.69 PT which if reached, will make NYSE:CPB worth $579.60 million less.

A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products. The group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx. Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her...

Campbell Soup is closing two U.S. plants and cutting more than 700 jobs as it looks to trim costs amid declining consumption of its canned soups. The world's largest soup maker said Thursday that it will close its plant in Sacramento that has about 700 full-time workers. The plant, which makes soups, sauces and beverages, was built in 1947 and is the company's oldest in the country. That also means it has the highest production costs of Campbell's four U.S. soup plants. Campbell also plans to shutter a spice plant in South Plainfield, N.J. that has 27 employees. Production will...

According to Democrats.com, Obama has pressured these companies into pulling their ads from FOXnews. Let's boycott these wimps and let them see that losing the mainstream dollar hurts more than losing the radical left dollar: Campbell Soup Chrysler General Motors Kellogg Kraft Foods Lawyers.com Nestle Pfizer Proctor & Gamble Progressive Insurance

According to an article by Erik Sass in the Dec. 24 edition of the Media Daily News, Campbell's Soup will not be neutral in the culture war. The Media Daily News reports that Campbell's will continue to use its advertising dollars to support homosexual publications pushing the homosexual agenda and same-sex marriage. AFA had asked the company to remain neutral in the culture war. The company sponsored two pages of ads in both the December 2008 and January 2009 issues of The Advocate, the nation’s largest homosexual magazine. The ads featured the company's Swanson line of broth. The Media Daily...

Campbell Soup is not backing down in the face of pressure from right-wing groups over an ad that recently appeared in The Advocate, which covers gay politics and culture, according to the Ad Age Web site. The two-page ad for Swanson's broth shows two female restaurant owners and a boy, identified as their son, enjoying soup made with the product. While tame by the standards of gay magazine advertising, the understated ad from Omnicom's BBDO, New York has gotten Campbell into hot water with the American Family Association, which assiduously tracks advertising by mainstream brands in search of evidence that...

Judging by Dayna Neumann's pantry, the latest U.S. recession may become a boon for the Campbell Soup Co., just as the last two economic contractions did. Neumann's family, in Louisville, Ky., is bracing "for a rough road ahead," says the 32-year-old working mother. After her 30-year-old husband, Nick, substituted $1.75 Campbell Chunky soup for restaurant lunches in September, she started buying as many as 15 cans at a time. The appeal of a cheap meal may be good news for sales at the world's largest soup maker, which says it sells to 85 percent of U.S. households. Its shares have...

ATLANTA April 20 (UPI) -- An Atlanta-area man who poisoned his children's soup to justify a lawsuit against the Campbell's Soup Co., was sentenced to five years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Julie Carnes sentenced William Cunningham, 41, on Thursday and also forbade him from having contact with his children for three years after his prison sentence ends, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Friday. Cunningham confessed in February to spiking his two children's soup with Prozac, lighter fluid and hot peppers as part of a scheme to collect cash from Campbell's. The normal maximum sentence for the federal charge...

ATLANTA (AP) - February 7, 2007 - A Georgia man has admitted forcing his young children to eat soup laced with hot peppers, lighter fluid and prescription drugs. Authorities say William Cunningham served the poisoned soup to his three-year-old son and 18-month-old daughter in an attempt to extort money from the Campbell Soup Company. The children recovered after being hospitalized twice last year. Under a plea deal, Cunningham faces up to five years in federal prison. According to prosecutors, Cunningham called Campbell and threatened to sue. (Copyright 2007 by the Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Can a dead avant-garde artist add cachet to an old comfy pair of jeans? Levi Strauss & Co. hopes so. The blue jeans giant is tapping Andy Warhol to sell $150 to $250 jeans and other sportswear embellished with dollar signs, Marilyn Monroe, Mao and other imagery. The "Warhol Factory X Levi's" are an attempt to lure away young consumers who think nothing of dropping a cool $200 on a pair of Diesel, Frankie B. and Joe's Jeans. Through its licensing agreement with the Andy Warhol Foundation, the status-symbol jeans and tops will be in high-end stores in the spring.

CAMDEN, N.J., Dec. 23 - If anybody was surprised that Camden was recently ranked America's most dangerous city, it wasn't the people who live here. In the past 12 months, there have been 53 homicides, including a 12-year-old shot to death on his porch for his radio, more than 800 aggravated assaults, including a toddler shot in the back of the head, at least 750 robberies and 150 acts of arson, more than 10,000 arrests and one glaring nonarrest - a serial rapist on the loose downtown. All in a city of 79,000, nine square miles small. For decades, Camden...