Jul 15, 2005 9:55 AM, from staff and wire reports

Campbell Soup Co plans to build a new $80 million, 220,000-square-foot culinary campus in Everett WA for its refrigerated soup business. The new facility will enable the company’s StockPot business to increase its production capacity by 50% when it relocates from its present campus in Woodinville WA. The new StockPot facility is expected to start up in summer 2006.

StockPot Inc, which makes restaurant-quality, fresh-refrigerated soups and sauces for the foodservice industry, was acquired by Campbell in 1998. StockPot’s products are sold across the United States as part of Campbell’s Away From Home division.