Campbell Soup Company (CPB)
Soup and snack plants, split by segment. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 2, 2026, filed September 24, 2026. Ranked 51 of the 62 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
22%
Employees, annual report
13,500
Leading staffing pattern
Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202720%
- End of 202822%
- End of 203022%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states 13,500 full-time and part-time employees making soups, meals and baked snacks, with no count by segment, so the split follows segment revenue.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 14% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 22% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 9% people work and 69% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
13,500 employees as of August 2, 2026 (stated). Not stated; the data service's geography table is from fiscal 2021 and was not used.
The filing: “On August 2, 2026, we had approximately 13,500 full-time and part-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing | 50% | The soups (27% of revenue) and the other meals, sauces and beverages (30%) are canned and specialty foods, which NAICS counts with canned specialties and sauces (311422, 311421), read by segment revenue (c) since the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing | 30% | The baked snacks segment (43% of revenue) includes the Pepperidge Farm bakeries' breads, cookies and crackers, which NAICS counts with commercial bakeries and cookie and cracker manufacturing (3118), read by description (c) as the larger part of the snacks workforce. |
| Other Food Manufacturing | 20% | The pretzel, chip and other snack plants inside the baked snacks segment are snack food manufacturing (311919), read by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 13,500 full-time and part-time, down from 14,700 in 2022 as the filing's history shows; a hybrid work policy for office employees; no hourly, part-time or union figure stated.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC, 35,000 employees)14% now, 21% by 2028
- Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG, 17,400 employees)14% now, 22% by 2028
- Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. (LW, 10,000 employees)14% now, 21% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
8 sentences in the filing name AI. Eight sentences, risk factors: AI technologies and intellectual property protection, AI-generated content and AI shopping agents changing how consumers find brands, and negative AI-generated posts.
- “Our failure to obtain or adequately protect our intellectual property, including in response to developing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, or any change in law that lessens or removes the current legal protections of our intellectual property may diminish our competitiveness and adversely affect our business and financial results.”
- “Negative posts or comments about us, our brands, products or packaging on social or digital media, including AI-generated content, could seriously damage our brands and reputation.”
- “In addition, an increase in data analytics, automation, AI-generated content across digital platforms, and AI shopping agents is changing how consumers discover and engage with our brands and products.”
- “New and emerging technologies, including AI and future advances in computing capabilities, that could result in greater operational efficiency may further expose our computer systems to the risk of cyberattacks.”
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 20254median 10
- Fiscal 20268
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-02 | 13,500 | 2026-09-24 | 10-K |
| 2025-08-03 | 13,700 | 2025-09-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-07-28 | 14,400 | 2024-09-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-07-30 | 14,500 | 2023-09-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-07-31 | 14,700 | 2022-09-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-01 | 14,100 | 2021-09-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-02 | 14,500 | 2020-09-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-07-28 | 19,000 | 2019-09-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-07-29 | 23,000 | 2018-09-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-07-30 | 18,000 | 2017-09-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-07-31 | 16,500 | 2016-09-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-08-02 | 18,600 | 2015-09-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-03 | 19,400 | 2014-09-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-07-28 | 20,000 | 2013-09-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-07-29 | 17,700 | 2012-09-27 | 10-K |
| 2011-07-31 | 17,500 | 2011-09-28 | 10-K |
| 2010-08-01 | 18,400 | 2010-09-29 | 10-K |
| 2009-08-02 | 18,700 | 2009-09-30 | 10-K |
| 2008-08-03 | 19,400 | 2008-10-01 | 10-K |
| 2007-07-29 | 22,500 | 2007-09-26 | 10-K |
| 2006-07-30 | 23,000 | 2006-10-11 | 10-K |
| 2005-07-31 | 24,000 | 2005-10-11 | 10-K |
| 2004-08-01 | 24,000 | 2004-10-12 | 10-K |
| 2003-08-03 | 25,000 | 2003-10-09 | 10-K |
| 2002-07-28 | 25,000 | 2002-10-11 | 10-K |
| 2001-07-29 | 24,000 | 2001-10-10 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-07-30 | 22,000 | 2000-10-19 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-08-01 | 24,500 | 1999-10-12 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-08-02 | 24,250 | 1998-10-09 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-08-03 | 37,000 | 1997-10-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-07-28 | 40,650 | 1996-10-15 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-07-30 | 43,781 | 1995-10-06 | 10-K |
| 1994-07-31 | 44,378 | 1994-10-07 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the split between the soup and meals plants and the snack bakeries follows segment revenue and description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000016732-26-000026, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Campbell Soup Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 22% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Campbell Soup Company's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Campbell Soup Company employ?
- 13,500 as of August 2, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending August 2, 2026 states.
- What kinds of work make up Campbell Soup Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 22% desk work, 9% people work and 69% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Campbell Soup Company's annual report say about AI?
- 8 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 1, 3, 4 and 8 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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