A nonprofit residential camp, The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp offered free lodging, medical care, counseling, and recreational activities for children with cancer and other serious diseases. The brainchild of Nell Newman, the third of Newman's five daughters, it was created to develop products using certified organic ingredients, marketed with the slogan: 'Great products that just happen to organic.
Newman convinced her father to start the division after impressing him with an all-organic Thanksgiving dinner she prepared. The division was based in Aptos, California, where Nell Newman lived, and was headed by herself and her business partner Peter Meehan. The first product, seven-grain organic pretzels, was followed by organic chocolate bars and fat-free Fig Newmans. Plans for a major marketing push of Newman's Own products were set in motion in the United Kingdom in It was hoped that the appeal of the famous actor combined with the company's policy of donating profits to children's charities would be a draw for consumers.
Fisher Quality Foods, Newman's Own's sole importer in the United Kingdom since the brand launched there in , was set to become the brand's sole manufacturer, in anticipation of the new marketing campaign. At the time of the reported expansion, Newman's Own pasta sauce had a two percent U.
Newman's Own's unorthodox success caught the attention of several business schools. In , Newman and Hotchner's offbeat company became the focus of a hands-on business course at Fairfield University's School of Business in Fairfield, Connecticut.
With the cooperation of a group of management, finance, and marketing professors, Newman's Own invited teams of students to run focus groups, brainstorm about new products, and plot marketing strategies for the Westport company.
Three years later, Newman addressed a group of students at the Harvard Business School, joking that he was planning a 'hostile takeover' of the H. Heinz Company, according to the student newspaper The Harbus. Newman mesmerized his audience with his unusual approach to business. James Austin, chairman of the schools Initiative on Social Enterprise, said, 'Newman's Own reveals the synergistic relationship between the social purpose and the commercial operations.
As the company continued to evolve, Newman's Own acknowledged the need for a more directed marketing approach. His first big change was to include a line of copy on the actual product packaging advertising the philanthropic mission of Newman's Own, since focus group research had determined that less than 25 percent of consumers knew that after-tax profits went to charity. Indoe also instituted the practice of using newspaper inserts to advertise Newman's Own products with a headline reading 'Over 90 Million Given to Charity by Paul Newman,' aimed at improving public awareness of the company's charitable goals.
Retail World noted plans to increase Newman's Own's range in Australia, with four new pasta sauces to be introduced in that country in the second half of the year, and new salad dressings to follow. Both well-received cookbooks contained recipes using Newman's Own products, as well as recipes contributed by such famous friends as Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman, and Julia Roberts.
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