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Kraft Foods Group

Logo: Kraft Foods, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

American food and beverage company

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, 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. The merger was arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, and was completed on July 2, 2015, forming Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.3 It was founded by James L. Kraft.1 It employed about 22,500 people in 2015.1 Its shares trade on NASDAQ under the symbol KRFT.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2012Founded1

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  • TickerKRFT on NASDAQ1
  • Industryfast-moving consumer goods, food industry1
  • HeadquartersNorthfield1
  • Founded inChicago1
  • Websitewww.kraftheinzcompany.com
  • Legal formDelaware corporation1
  • Business addressThree Lakes Drive, Northfield, Il 600936
  • Filer categoryLarge accelerated filer6
  • LEIV1BYR0MM295ZFWYYS3674
  • StatusInactive4
  • LEI statusRetired4
  • Registered addressC/O CT Corporation System, 23060 Glen Allen, United States4

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Kraft Foods HQ Northfield IL
Photo: Kraft Foods Incorporated, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons8

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, 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. The merger was arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital, and was completed on July 2, 2015, forming Kraft Heinz, the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.3

Corporate structure

Kraft Foods Group is part of a group headed by Kraft Heinz. 199 entities, 40 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Kraft Heinz Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
    • Kraft Foods Group Northfield, Illinois, United States
      • Biscuiterie Belin Subsidiary
      • Café HAG Subsidiary · Bremen
      • Chocolat Poulain Subsidiary · Villebarou
      • Chocolat Suchard Subsidiary · Neuchâtel
      • General Foods Subsidiary · New York City
      • Győri Keksz Subsidiary · Székesfehérvár
      • Heudebert Subsidiary
      • Kraft (Canada) Subsidiary · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      • Maxwell House Subsidiary · Tarrytown
      • Borio Subsidiary
      • Cachou Lajaunie Subsidiary
      • Cadbury France Subsidiary · France
      • Cadbury Mr. Big Subsidiary
      • Carambar Subsidiary
      • Chat Noir Subsidiary · Belgium
      • Cheez Whiz Subsidiary
      • Chokotoff Subsidiary · Belgium
      • Figolu Subsidiary
      • Grany Subsidiary
      • Grey Poupon Subsidiary
      • Hollywood Subsidiary
      • Jell-O Subsidiary
      • Kraft Dinner Subsidiary
      • Malabar Subsidiary · France
      • Miracle Whip Subsidiary
      • and 8 more
    • ABC Heinz Indonesia Subsidiary
    • Polly-O Subsidiary
    • H.J. HEINZ FINANCE UK PLC Subsidiary · 100% · London, United Kingdom
    • KRAFT HEINZ CANADA ULC Subsidiary · 100% · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Kraft Heinz Foods Company Subsidiary · 100% · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
      • 주식회사 크래프트하인즈코리아 Subsidiary · 100% · Seoul, South Korea
    • Alimentos Heinz de Costa Rica S.A. Subsidiary · Costa Rica
    • Alimentos Heinz, C.A. Subsidiary · Venezuela
    • Asian Restaurants Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Battery Properties, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Boca Foods Company Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • BR Spices Industria e Comercio de Alimentos S.A Subsidiary · Brazil
    • Bridgetown KHC SRL Subsidiary · Barbados
    • Cairo Food Industries, S.A.E. Subsidiary · Egypt
    • Capri Sun, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Carlton Bridge Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Cerebos (Australia) Limited Subsidiary · Australia
    • Cerebos Gregg’s Ltd. Subsidiary · New Zealand
    • Cerebos Skellerup Ltd. Subsidiary · New Zealand
    • Churny Company, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Delimex de Mexico S.A. de C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
    • Devour Foods LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Distribuidora Heinz Caracas, C.A. Subsidiary · Venezuela
    • Ethical Bean LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • evolv group llc Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • and 141 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Kraft Foods Group reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Land$79.0M9 Dec 27, 2014$72.0M9 Dec 28, 2013+9.7%
Buildings and improvements$1.9B9 Dec 27, 2014$1.8B9 Dec 28, 2013+4.2%
Machinery and equipment$5.6B9 Dec 27, 2014$5.6B9 Dec 28, 2013+0.6%
Construction in progress$464.0M9 Dec 27, 2014$360.0M9 Dec 28, 2013+28.9%
Property and equipment, before depreciation$8.0B9 Dec 27, 2014$7.8B9 Dec 28, 2013+2.8%
Accumulated depreciation$3.9B9 Dec 27, 2014$3.7B9 Dec 28, 2013+3.9%
Property and equipment, net$4.2B9 Dec 27, 2014$4.1B9 Dec 28, 2013+1.9%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$1.3B9 Dec 27, 2014$1.7B9 Dec 28, 2013−23.3%

Intangibles and goodwill

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Goodwill$11.4B9 Dec 27, 2014$11.5B9 Dec 28, 2013−0.9%
Intangible assets, net (excluding goodwill)$2.2B9 Dec 27, 2014$2.2B9 Dec 28, 2013+0.2%
Indefinite-lived intangibles (excluding goodwill)$2.2B10 Dec 28, 2013$2.2B10 Dec 29, 20120%

Inventory

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Inventory, total$1.8B9 Dec 27, 2014$1.6B9 Dec 28, 2013+9.8%
Raw materials$453.0M10 Dec 28, 2013$535.0M10 Dec 29, 2012−15.3%
Work in process$296.0M9 Dec 27, 2014$294.0M9 Dec 28, 2013+0.7%
Finished goods$998.0M9 Dec 27, 2014$869.0M9 Dec 28, 2013+14.8%

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by James L. Kraft in 2012, in Chicago.1

Spinoff of Kraft Foods Group from Kraft Foods Inc.

In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies—a snack food company and a grocery company. 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".

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. Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group said the strategy "worked for Mondelez, but not for Kraft".

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.

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". 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.

In August 2014, Kraft announced an agreement with McDonald's to sell its McCafé brand of coffee in grocery stores starting in 2015.

Kraft and Heinz merger

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. 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. The companies completed the merger on July 2, 2015.

In 2025, Kraft Heinz confirmed that they will be spending $3 billion on its U.S. manufacturing facilities, adding 3,500 employees to the Lunchables producer's workforce.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kraft Foods, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Leadership

Who has led Kraft Foods Group, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Irene Rosenfeld2012
  2. W. Anthony Vernon2012–2014
  3. John T. Cahill2015

Chair

  1. John T. Cahill2012–2015

President

  1. Irene Rosenfeld2012
  2. W. Anthony Vernon2012

Chief financial officer

  1. Timothy R. McLevish2012–2013
  2. Teri List2014–2015
  3. James Kehoe2015

Chief operating officer

  1. Georges El-Zoghbi2015
201520202025
Board members and other officers (36)

Products and brands

  • coffee
  • food product

Listed on Wikidata.1

The company's core businesses are in beverage, cheese, dairy foods, snack foods, and convenience foods. Kraft's major brands include:

From Wikipedia’s article on Kraft Foods, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

All 31 subsidiaries
  • Paille d'or
  • Pastador
  • Philadelphia Cream Cheese
  • Pépito
  • Tang
  • Tassimo
  • Victoria

Also owns

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Feb 2, 2010Acquired Cadbury1
  2. Succeeded Kraft Foods Inc.1

Employees over time

  • 201522,5001

Timeline

  1. Jan 6, 2015New chief executive John T. Cahill becomes CEO11
  2. Oct 4, 2012New chief executive W. Anthony Vernon becomes CEO13
  3. Aug 17, 2012New chief executive Irene Rosenfeld becomes CEO12
  4. 2012Founded Founded in Chicago1

SEC filer profile

How Kraft Foods Group is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARKraft Foods Group, Inc.2
  • CIK0001545158
  • Employer ID (EIN)36-30831352
  • Filer statusLarge accelerated filer2
  • Fiscal year endsDecember 282
  • Industry code (SIC)2000 Food and Kindred Products2
  • Business addressThree Lakes Drive, Northfield, IL 600932
  • Phone847-646-20002
  • Shares outstanding591,940,002 as of Apr 25, 201553
  • Public float$35.0B as of Jun 28, 20149
  • On EDGAR sinceApr 2, 20122
  • Filings436 in all: 4 (199), 8-K (60), 425 (47), 3 (40), CORRESP (9), 10-Q (8), 10-12B/A (6), 11-K (6)2
    All 34 form types

    S-8 (6), S-8 POS (6), UPLOAD (6), PX14A6G (4), SC 13G (4), SC 13G/A (4), 10-K (3), 424B3 (3), DEF 14A (3), DEFA14A (3), 424B2 (2), FWP (2), S-4/A (2), 10-12B (1), 10-Q/A (1), 15-12B (1), 25-NSE (1), 3/A (1), CERTNAS (1), CT ORDER (1), DEFM14A (1), EFFECT (1), NO ACT (1), POSASR (1), S-3ASR (1), S-4 (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Feb 19, 2015
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Apr 28, 2015
    Proxy statement (DEF 14A) Mar 18, 2015
    Latest 8-K (8-K) Jul 2, 2015

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