Daily Dish (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Crustmaster uses pies to lure Michelle Obama to the dark side. The original recipe for Worcestershire sauce is discovered (we assume it's the British equivalent of the original top-secret formula for Coca-Cola, but without cocaine). And the most practical...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAMDEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) North America Foodservice executive chefs will present delicious “grown-up kids' food,” including Mac & Cheese with Lobster & Truffle Crumbs and the World's Best Tomato Basil Bisque with Petite Grilled Fontina & Herb Panini. Campbell also will offer an exclusive culinary package for a busy mom who wants to focus...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that consumers are really spooked by the 10.2% unemployment rate and are continuing to hold back spending to only essential items. And bargains are key. Many brands are having to change marketing and production strategies in order to hand on to their customers. The recession may be over but companies that cater to consumers believe people are digging in for a long,...
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Jesse Jones of King5 News tests Campbell Soup’s claim that there is 32′ of noodles in every can. He lays out a can’s worth of noodles on a football field. Slow news day? If you want to kill some time at work, watch it here. Way to embarrass us on Consumerist Jesse.
Scrap Bitz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Happy Friday & Helloooooooo Weekend!! I'm still on my mini vacay, but needed to post a couple of things for ya today! Have a fabulous weekend & I'll see ya back here on Monday! NewsBitz: - Susana's Custom Art & Card Design Store is back in business today, after being closed this week for vacation time! She has lots of NEW yummy goodies in store too-- Smooch Spritz , Glittered Buttons ,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Does the Pop Art movement of the 1960s represent a battle between the Unserious and the Overserious? It can look that way. Nothing is more shockingly dissimilar to a silkscreen of a Campbell's soup can by Warhol from the 1960s than a giant work of monochromatic abstraction by Robert Motherwell from the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism seems to have almost no common ground with Pop. One seems to smile...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) Wallstsense.com is an online community with a dedicated team of analysts who are providing free in-depth research on North American equities. Our analysts have issued complimentary analysis on the following six companies: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (NYSE: IVN), Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB), Mobile Telesystems OJSC (NYSE: MBT), ACE Limited (NYSE:...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
CAMDEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Campbell Soup Company (NYSE:CPB) has debuted the first-ever Times Square billboard in the company’s 140-year history. Commuters emerging from the 7th Avenue Subway station at 53rd Street in New York are asking themselves how a young boy could be slurping a giant noodle from a bowl of soup in a billboard below his New York apartment. The noodle and child are actually...
chromat process (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
hey friends! im copying and pasting a speech i made at work yesterday for toastmasters (my boss told me i speak too 'off the cuff' and need to sign up for this). its great because in speeches, you don't have to reference or cite anything like you normally would in a research paper or academic essay! so here it is, straight from my mouth to your eyes! THE COMMODITIZATION OF CELEBRITY: WARHOL TO GAGA...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
SAN JOSE, Calif. & NEW YORK & LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveWorld, Inc. (Pink Sheets:LVWD), a leading online social media agency, today announced it is hosting a free webinar on November 10, 2009 focused on how brands can successfully evolve their corporate web strategies at a time when new social media tools have enabled customer conversations to take place all over the web. WHAT: Featuring...
The Marketing Minute (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
So simple...and yet so smart. Check out where BBDO got grocery stores to stock Campbell Soup's Chicken Noodle soup. Sometimes you don't have to spend millions on a campaign. You just have to ask a different question. In this case: "Would you be willing to stock some soup in your cold meds aisle?" Smart, smart, smart. Related articles by Zemanta 30 Rock 's Emphatically Branded Windows Computer...
ShoppingBlog.com (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Campbell's is running a contest for designers called the AdDress Your Heart design contest. ince the classic red and white paper dress design from the 1960s, Campbell Soup Company has a rich history of stylish, creative couture. Today, the Campbell red dress has evolved to be a symbol for heart health that inspires women to live longer, healthier lives. Now, it's your turn to help make heart health...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
BARCELONA.- “People Call it Noise - But he Calls it Music”; that was how the Chicago Daily News described the work of a young composer, John Cage (1912-1992) in a review published on 19 March 1942. That “noise”, “played” on wood blocks, water containers, tin cans, iron tubes, whistles and other percussion objects, soon gave way to “silence”, culminating in the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
CHICAGO - Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead. Key Points from Van Dijk's Latest Ear
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead. Key Points from Van Dijk's Latest Earnings Assessment Earnings surprise ratio (#beat / #miss) at 5.56 Median Earnings Surprise 7.90% Year-over-year earnings...
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