Campbell’s Fired Executive Made Racist Rant, Disparaged Soup

Campbell’s Co. said Wednesday it no longer employs an executive who was allegedly recorded criticizing the company’s food and making racist remarks.

Martin Bally, a vice president of information technology at Campbell’s, said the company’s products were highly processed food for “poor people” and referred to Indian co-workers as “idiots,” according to a lawsuit filed Nov. 20 by Robert Garza, a former Campbell’s employee, in Michigan’s Wayne County Circuit Court. The alleged comments were made during a meeting that Garza said he recorded.

“After a review, we believe the voice on the recording is in fact Martin Bally,” Campbell’s said ...