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Congratulations to West Liberty Foods, our 2022 Frozen Foods Processor of the Year. Founded in 1996, when 47 farmers formed the Iowa Turkey Growers Co-Operative to purchase a turkey processing [...]

Abstract Many Businesses were prompted to reevaluate their products and services as a result of the recent economic downturn. Changes were made to their business models to realign capabilities and [...]

The past year has brought economic and corporate stress unlike any seen before by most business leaders. Boards of directors have been forced to invent new standards for risk management, [...]

True Drinks Holdings provided an update for the year ending December 31. According to a release, over the past 15 months, True Drinks has made significant improvements to its products, [...]

The fight against the global epidemic obesity--or globesity--is on. The participation of all stakeholders is needed to curb 'public enemy number one' of the 21st century. The pressure on the [...]

A discussion of what keeps Kraft at the top of its game will keep coming back to a common theme: innovation. Over the past century in business, Northfield, Ill.-based Kraft […]

COMPANIES OFTEN PAUSE to digest a giant merger. But after Kraft Foods North America combined its cheeses with Nabisco's crackers in December 2000, the company realized that internal reporting needed [...]

Who's hot in frozen foods? Ask anyone and chances are there would be no mention. of Kraft Foods Inc. OF course, Northfield, III.-based Kraft will always be associated with its [...]

Kraft's Research & Development Center is a crucial component of the company's drive to reign supreme in the food industry. In R&D, where science and business converge, people have to [...]

With its firm Activity Based Costing foundation, the developing strategic alliance of Kraft and Supervalu suggests a major step toward bona fide 'best practices' progress. Although it may seem like [...]

Sweden is ranked as one of the highest per-capita coffee-consuming countries in the world. Its coffee market is shared by Kraft General Foods (KGF) in the city of Gavle, (which, [...]

WHEN ROBERT MCVICKER BECAME senior vice president for technology, quality assurance and scientific relations at Kraft General Foods, he found there were more than 30 different formulas throughout the world [...]

The trucking world is about to be turned on its regulatory head. An aggressive and costly new truck safety agenda is being rolled out this year by the Obama administration [...]

Martina Navratilova says sponsorship of women's tennis tournaments by Philip Morris Inc may be sending mixed messages since cigarettes do not fit in with the healthy image of tennis. Virginia Slims, however, has been a pioneer in supporting the game.

Kevin Lang and William Entenmann Ill sat stunned in Gregory Murphy's office, as if hit by a bolt of lightning. 'I think Greg had to pick me up off the [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla Dr Oetker has taken over McCain Foods' North American pizza operations. But, with competition fierce and with growth in the sector hard to come by, has the [...]

How critical is a brand name? Just ask the Kraft Foods', Yoplait's and Dean Foods' of the world -- each of which have brand leaders in one category or another. […]

Kraft President and CEO Robert A. Eckert is less worried about the center of the store than he is the center store of the future. I wouldn't write off the [...]

Harnessing performance measurements in a shared-services operation It's not unique to routinely measure your company's performance by collecting data about your business processes and then reporting your findings to the [...]

The food industry was unimpressed after Kraft General Foods announced in Jan 1995 that it was dropping the 'G' in its name. The new Kraft Foods was also enthusiastic about revamping its sales force under the account-specific Customer Business Team (CBT) approach. CBT, or scale leveraging, calls for more aggressive sales efforts in the customer's office and less emphasis on media advertising to lower the lag time between Kraft and its accounts. The successful CBT approach can only be adopted by large companies that have lots of brands in various categories., Despite initial skepticism in the industry, the Philip Morris division has managed to capture many of the advantages of scale with its Customer Business Teams, which see the buyer's office [...]

The biggest food company in North America is getting a little smaller, seemingly intent on a New Year's resolution to improve profitability. First, Kraft General Foods shed underperforming businesses (All [...]

Byline: just-food.com The management running UK organic chocolate maker Green & Black's is reportedly considering buying the business from parent company Kraft Foods. A report in The Financial Times said [...]

It is often said that change comes hard to trucking. And while outsiders often overplay that hand, insisting the industry is hidebound with traditionalists content to run trucks more or [...]

The Nutrition Labeling & Education Act presents a particularly awesome challenge for the largest food processor in the U.S.--Kraft General Foods. The company is faced with developing new labeling for [...]

Under new management In August, 1990, the Zurich coffee and chocolate company Jacobs Suchard AG was bought by the Philip Morris group for some Sfr. 5,400 million in what was [...]

Cheez Whiz! Kraft/GF Is Actually Working In Rye Brook, N.Y. they call it the Taj Mahal. Once headquarters for General Foods, one of the most opulent pieces of corporate real [...]

Byline: GARY PETTY In recent years, the National Private Truck Council has evolved from an association historically focused on government affairs to a more market and service-centered organization dedicated to [...]

Kraft Foods studies food trends via its annual 'Food Cast' consumer survey to peg flavor, nutrition and cooking-technique trends at four stages: mainstream, momentum, discovery and futuristic. It also categorizes [...]

Byline: AMANDA CHATER NORTHFIELD, Ill. - With prices of many Center Store items on the rise, it's a good time for retailers to promote their private label as a less-costly [...]

Kraft Foods last week announced plans to trim online marketing to kids nationally, and committed $2 million to health initiatives in California. Kraft will pull products that don't meet its [...]

Kids are getting another chance to prove their love of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese in a contest that will name the winners 'The Cheesiest' and shower them with prizes ranging [...]

* Kraft Foods Inc. realigned the financial-reporting structure for its North American businesses following the agreement to sell its Altoids, Life Savers and other candy brands. There are five North [...]

US food giant Kraft Foods has said that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has informed the company that it does not intend to recommend an enforcement action against Kraft [...]

Some specifics of Kraft's new product line that will carry the 'South Beach Diet' logo were revealed in a trademark infringement suit Kraft filed earlier this month against Nutrition & [...]

Although its net revenues for the second quarter were up 4.6% on volume growth of 3.6%, Kraft Foods Inc.'s earnings were negatively impacted by increased commodity costs, particularly dairy, and [...]

Since it launched a global health and wellness initiative in July 2003, Kraft has reduced the fat content in, and made other changes to, about 200 existing, individual products in [...]

Seeing a gap in its retail merchandising between the Super Bowl and Easter, Kraft Foods wanted a program that created maximum impact in-store across its entire portfolio of brands during [...]

Kraft Foods Inc. is using a series of e-mail newsletters to create a dialogue with customers and get them thinking about cooking. The packaged goods conglomerate has a diverse stable [...]