Layoffs by Campbell's Soup Corp

130 Campell's workers in Camden NJ being laid off.

190 additional positions in its national marketing office are being *outsourced* to as as-yet-unspecified nation.

Also a whole Campell's plant is being shut down in Marshall MI.

Altogether 770 positions are being cut.

http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2011/06/campbell_soup_to_lay_off_130_i.html

Campell's will also shut down a tiny operation in Russia.....but.....is SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDING operations & hiring in.....*drumroll please*.....you guessed it.....

CHINA

"We believe that opportunities currently under exploration in other emerging markets, notably China, offer stronger prospects for driving profitable growth." --Denise Morrison incoming CEO at Campell's

That explains the new Campbell's 'Won Ton Soup' cans we saw at the store.....

Hi phillymg,

Hearing Campbell's Soup laying off to outsource jobs to China just adds insult to injury to me.

Why don't we also outsource our overpaid-CEO positions? I'll bet that we can get a good CEO from Chilie or Iceland to work for 250k (and no gold parachute) instead of the 4-40M we're paying now?

For that matter, instead of our Dems/Repubs, why don't we do a search committee overseas for hiring offshore legislators? We won't need to pay them any wasteful benefits . . . just 60k per year and they can participate via skype, so that we don't incur travel expenses. I'll bet we actually get get quite a few very competent new senators. . . . we'll make them pass competency exams about our country - and the state that they are charged to represent - prior to their being able to be candidates.

Man, that Campbell's soup thing just leaves me feeling raw!

WW

worrywart wrote:Hi phillymg,

Hearing Campbell's Soup laying off to outsource jobs to China just adds insult to injury to me.

Why don't we also outsource our overpaid-CEO positions? I'll bet that we can get a good CEO from Chilie or Iceland to work for 250k (and no gold parachute) instead of the 4-40M we're paying now?

For that matter, instead of our Dems/Repubs, why don't we do a search committee overseas for hiring offshore legislators? We won't need to pay them any wasteful benefits . . . just 60k per year and they can participate via skype, so that we don't incur travel expenses. I'll bet we actually get get quite a few very competent new senators. . . . we'll make them pass competency exams about our country - and the state that they are charged to represent - prior to their being able to be candidates.

Man, that Campbell's soup thing just leaves me feeling raw!

WW

That is what happens when you use Walmarts' soup in soup kitchens! The Republicans sure want us to die.

TR11005 wrote: That is what happens when you use Walmarts' soup in soup kitchens! The Republicans sure want us to die.

Yes, they do but, unfortunately it's not just the Republicans. It's also all of the people that run all of the huge multinational corporations banks and also many Democrats that are beholden to them like the Republicans are.

This is bad. I caught something and this proved that no jobs are outsourcing proof:

190 additional positions in its national marketing office are being *outsourced* to as as-yet-unspecified nation.

Why did I quote that part? Because I have been looking for a marketing job (marketing btw often includes public relations, event planning, even now website design)and am sick of people telling me there are marketing jobs out there. Yes there are, in China and India. In this country? Forget it.

I am now boycotting Campbells Soup. Pretty disgusting that even food companies are outsourcing.

I blame both parties for this they both sold us out.

new_wave_princess wrote:This is bad. I caught something and this proved that no jobs are outsourcing proof:

190 additional positions in its national marketing office are being *outsourced* to as as-yet-unspecified nation.

Why did I quote that part? Because I have been looking for a marketing job (marketing btw often includes public relations, event planning, even now website design)and am sick of people telling me there are marketing jobs out there. Yes there are, in China and India. In this country? Forget it.

I am now boycotting Campbells Soup. Pretty disgusting that even food companies are outsourcing.

I blame both parties for this they both sold us out.

Hello new_wave_princess,

"Marketing" is a pretty broad description, like saying "healthcare" or "finance." I've done some time in the field of marketing, and also in fundraising (aka "Marketing" for charities). Sometimes, I have noticed that a position I found suitable was not classified as "marketing," but instead labeled by the industry for which the marketing would be performed. Sometimes, the language of the posting was such that the only way I found to identify suitable positions was to parse by-my-skills . . .


Have you been at all looking at the not-for-profits, or are you focused on the private sector?

I ask because my church's Music Director lost her "real job" of 16 years about a month ago, and, since then I have been working with her fairly intensively to help her land another FT gig. She is seeking work in not-for-profit Marketing for musical schools and ensembles, and has already gotten one interview with a hiring manager, and is now networking her way into an interview with a College.

Just a couple of off-the-cuff thoughts . . . I'm playing hookey for a few minutes before returning to writing up my series of presentations on Evangelism: They begin one week from today - so I'd better stop monkeying around and a-p-p-l-y myself (LOL)!

WW

I'm oddly mostly going with non profits now because that seems to be where I get hits. I have gotten two big interviews last year with two international social service agencies that everyone has heard of (one even had a famous song). My previous marketing was in various fields but in particular media and training.