Campbell’s Fires Executive Behind Recording That Disparaged Its Food

Campbell’s CPB -0.12%decrease; red down pointing triangle said it fired the executive allegedly caught on audio disparaging the company’s products.

The food company has been at the center of a controversy in recent days after a former employee leaked a tape of the executive. In the recording, vice president of information technology Martin Bally allegedly made racist comments and said Campbell’s made “highly processed food” for “poor people.”