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Joseph Albert Campbell (May 15, 1817 – March 27, 1900) was an American businessman who is best known for founding Campbell Soup Company in 1869 when he partnered with Abraham Anderson. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
A nephew of the general manager of the Joseph Campbell Preserve Company, he went to work there in 1897 and invented condensed soup. [1] [2] Dorrance went on to become the president of Campbell Soup Company from 1914 to 1930, eventually buying out the Campbell family. [citation needed] He turned the business into one of America's longest-lasting ...
America's Favorite Food: The Story of Campbell Soup Company. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-2592-3. Shea, Martha Esposito, and Mathis, Mike (2002). Images of America: Campbell Soup Company. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1058-0. Sidorick, Daniel (2009). Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth ...
On her father's death, she inherited a significant interest in the company. George Strawbridge Jr. was a member of the board of directors of the Campbell Soup Company from 1988 to 2009, [1] filling the vacancy left by his ailing father, who died in 1990. He served as a member of the company's audit committee and a member of the finance ...
Dorrance "Dodo" [1] Hill Hamilton (August 16, 1928 – April 18, 2017) [2] was an American heiress of the Campbell Soup fortune and philanthropist who founded the SVF Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island and preserved Hammersmith Farm.
William Beverly Murphy (June 17, 1907 – May 29, 1994) was an American food businessman. He was the president and CEO of Campbell Soup Company between 1953 and 1972. From 1942 to 1945 he was on leave from Campbell's Soup to the War Production Board.
Margaret Loreta Rudkin (née Fogarty; September 14, 1897 – June 1, 1967 [1]) was an American businesswoman who founded Pepperidge Farm and was the first female member of the board at the Campbell Soup Company.
Betty Cronin (July 12, 1928–December 11, 2016) was an American bacteriologist and co-author of Campbell’s Great American Cookbook.Some call her "the mother of TV dinners", [1] though the development of the idea has several claimants. [2]