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1. James Lewis Kraft ( / ˈkræft /; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902. He developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, allowing it to be shipped long distances, making him the first ...
Born in Stevensville, Ontario, Canada, in 1874, James L. Kraft immigrated to the United States in 1903 and started a wholesale door-to-door cheese business in Chicago; its first year of operations was "dismal", losing US$3,000 and a horse. It then took hold and Kraft was joined by his four brothers to form J.L. Kraft and Bros. Company in 1909 ...
The company has its origins as Kraft Foods Inc., which was founded in Chicago in 1923. The present enterprise was established in 2012 when Kraft Foods was renamed Mondelez and retained its snack food business, while its grocery business was spun off to a new company called Kraft Foods Group.
The Kraft Heinz Company ( KHC ), commonly known as Kraft Heinz ( / ˈkræft ˈhaɪnz / ), is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz Company co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. [ 3][ 4] Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America and the fifth-largest in ...
Cracker Barrel was founded in 1969 by Dan Evins, a representative for Shell Oil, who developed the restaurant and gift store concept initially as a plan to improve gasoline sales. [7] Designed to resemble the traditional country store that he remembered from his childhood, with a name chosen to give it a Southern country theme, [ 8 ] Cracker ...
Previous logo of the Canadian version [17]. Kraft Dinner has been called a de facto national dish of Canada. [18] Packaged in Quebec with Canadian wheat and milk, and other ingredients from Canada and the US, [19] Canadians purchase 1.7 million of the 7 million boxes sold globally each week [2] and eat an average of 3.2 boxes of Kraft Dinner each year, 55% more than Americans.
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Kraft Foods Group, Inc. ( doing business as Kraft Foods Group) was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, [ 2] split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July 2, 2015.
When Canada was founded, women could not vote in federal elections. Women did have a local vote in some provinces, as in Canada West from 1850, where women owning land could vote for school trustees. By 1900 other provinces adopted similar provisions, and in 1916 Manitoba took the lead in extending full women's suffrage. [158]