Campbell gets souped up

Manufacturing News, Source : TheManufacturer.com
Published : 15 Jul 2005 20:22

Campbell Soup Company has announced plans to build a new $80 million, 220,000-square-foot culinary campus in Everett, WA.

The new facility will support Campell’s fast-growing premium refrigerated soup business. The company's StockPot business will be able to increase its production capacity by 50 percent when it relocates from its present facility in Woodinville, WA.

Campbell acquired StockPot Inc., which makes restaurant-quality, fresh-refrigerated soups and sauces for the food service industry, in 1998. StockPot's products, which have achieved double-digit growth over the past four years, are sold across the US as part of Campbell's Away From Home division.

"Demand for StockPot soups is increasing dramatically through ongoing taste innovations and an absolute dedication to quality,” said Archie van Beuren, Campbell's President - Away From Home, Canada, Latin America and Mexico Division. “Our new culinary campus will enable StockPot to continue to grow in the food service market, as well as with many leading food retailers who are increasingly recognizing that StockPot's line of high-quality refrigerated soup is a tremendous complement to their prepared foods offerings."

The new StockPot facility is expected to start up in the summer of 2006.

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