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On April 2, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. announced that it had filed a Form 10 Registration Statement to the SEC to split the company into two companies to serve the "North American grocery business". [71] The split was structured so that the old Kraft Foods changed its name to Mondelez International and spun off Kraft Foods Group as a new publicly ...
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 ...
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.
Kraft Foods Group is a $19 billion North American food and beverage company whose leading brand portfolio includes Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Planters, and many others.
In 1981, Oscar Mayer stockholders elected to sell the company to General Foods. [5] Four years later, Philip Morris acquired General Foods, and in 1989 merged General Foods with the newly acquired Kraft Foods transforming it into Kraft General foods. Shares of Kraft Foods were first offered to the public via an initial public offering in 2001.
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.
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 ...
The H. J. Heinz Company (/ h aɪ n z /) was an American food processing company headquartered at One PPG Place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] The company was founded by Henry J. Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures a couple thousand food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories.