Kraft Foods

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Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate,<ref name="kficompany">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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 after merging with Heinz.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The merger was arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> was completed on July 2, 2015, forming Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.<ref name="time3757678">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

HistoryEdit

Spinoff of Kraft Foods Group from Kraft Foods Inc.Edit

In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies—a snack food company and a grocery company.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> 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".<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

On October 1, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. spun off its North American grocery business to a new company called Kraft Foods Group, Inc. The remainder of Kraft Foods Inc. was renamed Mondelēz International, Inc., and was refocused as an international snack and confection company.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group said the strategy "worked for Mondelez, but not for Kraft".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On November 19, 2013, an arbitration ruling ordered Starbucks to pay Kraft Foods Inc. $2.7 billion because of an early contract termination. The money would go to Mondelēz International, Inc.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In October 2013, Kraft announced that it would remove artificial dyes from three macaroni and cheese varieties made in kid-friendly shapes, but not its plain elbow-shaped Kraft Macaroni and Cheese product with "original flavor".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> This was in response to a petition by activist Vani Hari and blogger Lisa Leake who delivered a petition to the company to remove controversial synthetic dyes Yellow 5 (labeled as Tartrazine) and Yellow 6 from its signature macaroni and cheese products.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Kraft and Heinz mergerEdit

On March 25, 2015, Kraft Foods Group Inc. announced that it would merge with the H.J. Heinz Company, owned by 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> Kraft's shares rose about 17 percent in premarket trading after the announcement of the deal, which will bring Heinz back to the public market following its takeover over two years prior.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The companies completed the merger on July 2, 2015.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

Sponsorships and promotionsEdit

Kraft is an official partner and sponsor of both Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League. Since 2006, Kraft Foods has sponsored Kraft Hockeyville, a reality television series produced by CBC/SRC Sports, in which communities demonstrate their commitment to the sport of ice hockey in a contest revolving around the theme of community spirit. The winning community gets a cash prize dedicated to upgrading their hometown arena, as well as the opportunity to host an NHL preseason game. In 2007, it was then relegated to segments aired during Hockey Night in Canada. In 2015, Kraft Hockeyville was expanded to the United States with a separate competition for communities there.

From 2002 to 2014, Kraft sponsored the Kraft Nabisco Championship, one of the four "majors" on the LPGA tour. The company also sponsored the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, a post-season college football bowl game, from 2010 to 2012.

BrandsEdit

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File:Kraft logo.svg

The old Kraft logo still seen on some Kraft-branded products

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The new Kraft logo used since its soft-launch in April 2024 on few products

The company's core businesses are in beverage, cheese, dairy foods, snack foods, and convenience foods. Kraft's major brands include:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Div col