Campbells is a newly established company that specializes in preparing healthy but tasty food for children under the age of 5. It is incurring huge production costs, nonexistent profits, and slow sales growth. The company is in the phase of its life cycle.

Introduction phase.

Explanation:

Campbell's company is going through the introduction phase of it's development cycle. In the introduction phase, a business; builds it's customer base, makes very little or no profit, observes slow growth rate and the running cost is usually high, but the business tends to stabilize as it enters the growth phase.

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