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The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz (/ ˈ k r æ f t ˈ h aɪ n z /), is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz Company co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh.
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., to form the world's fifth-largest food and beverage company.
Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (doing business as Kraft Foods Group) is 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.
For years, Kraft Heinz slashed investments in key brands in order to meet aggressive operating profit targets put in place at the time of its merger. Top talent left the company.
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. Kraft Foods Group later merged with Heinz to become Kraft Heinz .
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.