On March 25, 2015, Kraft announced its merger with Heinz, arranged byBerkshire Hathawayand 3G Capital. The resulting Kraft Heinz Company is the fifth largest food company in the world. Berkshire Hathaway became a majority owner of Heinz on June 18, 2015. What companies are owned by Kraft? B...
The Hefty brand is owned by New Zealand packaging company Reynolds Group. In 1991, the maker of Hefty, Mobil Chemical Co., settled a lawsuit filed by six states that claimed it made deceptive claims about the bags’ ability to degrade. Hefty now makes an array of trash bags, food storage...
In 2011, Google opened a campus in a former Nabisco factory. In 2015, Facebook chose Pittsburgh as a hub for its Reality Labs, now a key part of the company’s supposed transition to the metaverse. Uber began testing self-driving cars in 2016. A year later, Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle...
Bob Gfeller is Lowe's senior vice president of marketing and advertising. He has more than 20 years of branding and retail marketing experience, having managed some of the nation's leading brand names and products at The Coca-Cola Company, Nabisco, Inc., and Champion, Inc. Franklin & Marsh...
Over the years, Nabisco has made Oreo Cookies, Ritz Crackers, Barnum’s Animal Crackers, Wheat Thins, and Honey Maid Grahams, and added such products as Planters Peanuts and A1 Steak Sauce. Eventually it was merged with Kraft Foods, and the brands are now owned by Chicago-based Mondelēz ...
“i am notorious. it is a kind of infamy doing what i am doing, isn’t that what they say?” it was never jeffrey wigand’s ambition to [#image: /photos/54cc02d55e7a91c52823b45f]become a central figure in the great social chronicle of the tobacco wars. by his own description,...
When the financial history of the 1980s is written, when the tales of leverage are limned, the $25 billion RJR Nabisco buyout will no doubt be viewed as the epochal transaction. But the Campeau drama has no rival for absurdity as it proceeded and for shattering effects as it ended. ...
He has come at least halfway by acquiring Chun King, a U.S. producer of canned Oriental food, from RJR Nabisco. Says Yeo: ''Having an American brand is our shortcut to globalization.'' His own brand, called Yeo's, is a popular commodity in Asia, where the company turns out such ...