• Concentrate on products that represent superior value to consumer and constantly strive to improve those values.
• Development products that help build markets.
• Development products that yield a fair profit to Campbell.
In pursuing these guidelines, Campbell adopted several operating practices:
• Using ongoing consumer research to determine eating habits; this included checking home menus, recipes, and food preparation techniques to learn which food items were served together.
• Studying meal and snack eating occasions to learn which household members participated so that preliminary estimates of volume potential could be made for possible new products and product improvement ideas.
• Testing new or improved products in enough households across the United States to allow reliable national sales projections to be made. Once a product met pretest standards, testing in a simple of supermarkets and sales outlets was conducted.