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Newman's Own is a food company founded by actor Paul Newman and his friend, author A. E. Hotchner, in 1982. The company is a for-profit corporation, and Paul Newman receives all the proceeds.^[1] Newman then donates 100% of those proceeds, after taxes, to educational and charitable purposes.^[2] The charities, and their nature, to which the proceeds are given remain mostly undisclosed.^{[citation needed]} According to the Newman's Own website, the franchise has resulted in over $200 million in donations as of April 2006. The company co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, which is presented annually to a United States resident who has fought courageously, despite adversity, to safeguard the First Amendment right to freedom of expression as it applies to the written word.

The brand started with salad dressing, and has expanded to include pasta sauce, iced tea, lemonade, limeade, fruit cocktail juices, popcorn, salsa, cookies, coffee, dog food, cat food, and other offerings. Newman's Own Limeade (shown at right) was introduced in 2004.

One beneficiary of his charity is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for seriously ill children he co-founded in 1986, located between Ashford and Eastford, Connecticut. While proceeds from Newman's Own financed the startup of the camp, it now receives funding from many additional sources.

Newman and Hotchner co-wrote a memoir about their company and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (ISBN 0-385-50802-6). It was published in 2003.

In The Simpsons episode "King-Size Homer," Homer vents gas from a nuclear reactor. The gas destroys crops of corn. A farmer looks and says, "Oh no, the corn! Paul Newman's gonna have ma' legs broke!" This is in reference to the legend on Newman's Own popcorn products, in which Newman threatens anyone who might try to steal his popcorn.^[3]

He has also made a cameo in The Simpsons episode "The Blunder Years," as Homer is jealous that Marge likes the Burley brand of paper towels, he fantasizes about Newman's Own Dressing with the picture of Newman speaking "Homer, I'll tell you what I told Redford: It ain't gonna happen."

• Newman's Own, official website
• The Hole in the Wall Gang