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...made a decision last week in which they came off as the good guys. Faced with a growing consumer boycott of their product, the companies said they would no longer sell tuna caught by methods harmful to dolphins. Star-Kist Seafood, the world's largest tuna canner, led the way last week. "Star-Kist will not purchase any tuna caught in association with dolphins," said Anthony O'Reilly, chairman of H.J. Heinz, which owns Star-Kist...
...better for Del Monte," runs the commercial of one of the nation's largest canning companies. Now Del Monte will tell U.S. consumers a good deal more than simply how it picks its beans and minds its peas and cucumbers. The company has become the first commercial canner to adopt the Food and Drug Administration's proposed voluntary guidelines for listing on a can's label the nutritional value of its contents. Beginning next summer, Del Monte's 34 bestselling products will be labeled with, among other things, a calorie count and a profile of vitamins...
...peas' earthly journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants in eight states and two in Canada. In the last decade, it has raised its sales from $46 million to more than $75 million, increased earnings to $2,300,000, expanded to 38 products. It is also moving into frozen foods and embarking...
Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh track in cold." Says Producer Alex Gottlieb: "A good film editor can lay in a laugh track from the library that comes out sounding more authentic than live laughter. After all, people aren't expert laughers, but the sound effects man is an expert listener...
...Angeles' NORTON SIMON, 48, who built Hunt Foods into the country's fourth biggest canner of fruit and vegetables (1954 sales: $66 million), has used his profits to move into other fields. In 1946 Simon went into Ohio Match, whose stock was selling at some $2,500,000 below net worth. He had so many good ideas that the directors offered him a voice in company policy without a fight, saw their profits soar. Later, to get wood supplies for Ohio Match, he invested some of its cash in the Northern Pacific Railroad, which had big timber tracts...