Campbell Soup Company

By Elizabeth Lee ATLANTA—Maybe it's snob appeal. Maybe it's a longing for something more sophisticated than a can of watery chicken noodle soup. Whatever the reason, shoppers are increasingly likely to think inside the box when buying soup. Sales...

The giant strawberry fields outside the towns of Salinas and Watsonville, Calif., south of San Jose, seem to stretch on forever. In Merced County, east of Santa Cruz, the tomato fields roll on and on for miles. For some old-timers in our area, these...

Campbell Soup Co.'s higher soup sales were watered down by commodity hedging losses in its first fiscal quarter, as the soupmaker said Monday that profits fell 3.7 percent even as more cash-strapped consumers reached for its brands. Shares of the Camden,...

Hewlett-Packard Co. edged past Wall Street's forecast for the latest quarter, showing some resilience in troubled times, as strong laptop sales helped offset falling printer orders and weakness in some server lines. Profit slipped 2 percent while revenue...

The week ahead Thanksgiving brings a short week with a heavy diet of economic reports. Monday Existing home sales (October). Earnings: Campbell Soup, Hewlett-Packard Tuesday Consumer confidence (November). Earnings: Borders, D.R. Horton...

Monday •October existing-home sales •Earnings: Campbell Soup Co.; Donaldson Co.; Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday •Third-quarter gross domestic product •November consumer confidence •September Case-Shiller home price index...

Campbell Soup Co. is swearing off MSG. Or so it says in a new advertising campaign. But as with all things MSG, the full story is hard to pin down. About the only thing everyone can agree on when it comes to monosodium glutamate is that it makes food...

++++++++++++++++++++ || || PE- || STK || OF || PAY- || || || RIOD || RATE || RECD || ABLE || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ INCREASED ++++++++++++++++++++ || || || Brown Forman || Q || .28 || 12-8 || 1-2 || || Nstar || Q || .375 || 1-9 || 2-2 || +++++++...

Products marketed for infants or billed as "microwave safe" release toxic doses of the chemical bisphenol A when heated, an analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found. The newspaper had the containers of 10 items tested in a lab -- products...

Q: Does it look like my good fortune with my H.J. Heinz Co. shares will continue? F.C., via the Internet A: Frozen potatoes and soy sauce have never looked so good. The global producer and marketer of packaged foods, led by strong gains of those two...

Susan 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...

By Eamonn Brennan Cars.com As gas prices soar, drivers are thinking green and car companies are struggling to adapt to a future of diesels, hybrids, fuel cells and beyond. Not all companies are reacting the same way. Some are standing......