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The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz (/ ˈkræftˈhaɪnz /), is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz Company co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and beverage company in North America and the fifth-largest in the ...
In August 2011, the company announced plans to split into a North American grocery products business and a faster-growing global snacks company. [8] The snack company, Mondelez International Inc. is recognized as the old Kraft Foods Inc.'s legal successor, while the grocery company was named Kraft Foods, [9] [10] now a part of Kraft Heinz. [11]
heinz.com. The H. J. Heinz Company (/ haɪnz /) is 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 food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in more than 200 countries and territories.
Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris) spun off remaining shares of Kraft Foods to Altria shareholders in 2007. On November 4, 2015, owner Kraft Heinz announced it would move the Oscar Mayer headquarters and the company's U.S. meats business from Madison to Chicago.
It was structured so that Kraft Foods changed its name to Mondelez International and spun off Kraft Foods Group as a new publicly traded company. [25] Kraft Foods Group later merged with Heinz to become Kraft Heinz. [24] In 2014, the company announced a merger of its coffee business with the Dutch firm Douwe Egberts. [26]
CHICAGO -- Packaged foods giant Kraft Heinz said Carlos Abrams-Rivera, the company’s executive vice president and president of its North American business, will take over as chief executive Jan. 1.
22,500 (2015) Parent. Kraft Heinz. Website. kraftheinzcompany.com. Kraft Foods Group, Inc. 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.
Since the 1880s, Chicago has also been home to firms in other areas of the food processing industry, including cereals, baked goods, and candy. [2] In the twenty-first century, companies such as The Kraft Heinz Company, Wrigley, Sara Lee, and Tootsie Roll Industries, all maintain operations within the Chicago metropolitan area.