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Kraft Foods Inc.
Defunct American food and beverage company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kraft Foods Inc. (/ˈkræft/) was a multinational confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate.[4] It marketed many brands in more than 170 countries. Twelve of its brands annually earned more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, and Tang.[5] Forty of its brands were at least a century old.[6]
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Company type | Public |
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NYSE: KFT | |
Industry | Food |
Founded | December 10, 1923; 100 years ago (1923-12-10) |
Defunct | October 1, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-10-01) |
Fate | Assets divided[1][2][3] |
Headquarters | Northfield, Illinois, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Irene Rosenfeld (chairman & CEO) |
Products | Ultra-processed food |
The company was headquartered in Northfield, Illinois, near Chicago.
Kraft was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and became a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average on September 22, 2008, replacing the American International Group.[7] 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]