56 companies figure into making one can of chicken noodle soup. Wikipedia

Saw online that food marketers – you and I – are the largest non-government employee pool in the United States. The webfact above helps put that into focus. The 56 entities involved in that can of soup include not only the chicken wrangler, vegetable farmers and the Campbell’s conveyor belt operator, but everyone employed at the belt manufacturing plant, a couple processing companies, pasta makers, stainless steel and equipment producers, several truckers, food scientists, font designer, paper mill, label printer, a number of marketing departments, sales teams, purchasing agents – and even a copywriter and art director or two (gotta advertise).

Think of the diversity in this pool – talent, skills, life stories, sizes, shapes. It would make one whale of an employee picnic. Who wants to bring the soup?