The 12 closest competitors and alternatives to Kraft Foods among food and beverage companies — ranked by similarity to what Kraft Foods actually does, not by market-cap band.
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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.
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Food & Beverage
Mondelez International, Inc. engages in the manufacture and marketing of snack food and beverage products. Its products include beverages, biscuits, chocolate, gum and candy, cheese and groceries, and meals. Its brands include 5Star, 7Days, Alpen Gold, Barni, Belvita, Bournvita, Cadbury, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Chips Ahoy! Clif, Clorets, Club Social, Côte d'Or, Daim, Enjoy Life Foods, Freia, Grenade, Halls, Honey Maid, Hu, Kinh Do, Lacta, Lu, Marabou, Maynards Bassett’s, Mikado, Milka, Oreo, Perfect Snacks, Philadelphia, Prince, Ritz, Royal, Sour Patch Kids, Stride, Tang, Tate’s Bake Shop, Tiger, Toblerone, Triscuit, TUC, and Wheat Thins. It operates through the following geographical segments: Latin America, Asia, Middle East, and Africa, Europe, and North America. The company was founded by James Lewis Kraft in 1903 is headquartered in Chicago, IL.
Food & Beverage
Schreiber Foods is a customer-brand food leader headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, specializing in the production of natural cheese, process cheese, cream cheese, beverages, and yogurt.
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
TreeHouse Foods Inc. is a multinational food processing company founded in 2005 that specializes in the production of private label packaged foods. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, and consisting entirely of acquisitions, it had $2 billion in sales and over 4,000 employees in 20 facilities in 2010.
Food & Beverage
Kellogg Company is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. In October 2023, the company finalized the separation of its North American cereal business into two independent public companies.
Food & Beverage
Heinz Brasil S.A. is the Brazilian operating company of The Kraft Heinz Company, producing and marketing packaged foods such as ketchup, sauces, condiments, and other grocery products. It serves Brazilian consumers through retail and food-service channels, including products sold under the Heinz and Quero brands.
Food & Beverages
Philadelphia is a global brand of cream cheese owned by Mondelēz International, offering various dairy products and recipes.
Food & Beverage
Mizkan America, Inc. is a food products company with corporate operations and plant locations in states like Illinois and Wisconsin. The company produces various food items adhering to corporate principles and maintains corporate offices in Illinois.
Food & Beverage
IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.) is an American corporation that creates and supplies flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health products, biosciences, nutrition, enzymes, cultures, and soy. The company combines science and creativity to provide ingredients and sustainable innovations for everyday consumer products.
Food & Beverage, Agriculture
Bright Food (Group) Co., Ltd. is a Chinese multinational food and beverage manufacturing company headquartered in Shanghai. It operates as a general food group with a complete industrial chain, encompassing modern agriculture, food processing, and manufacturing.
Food & Beverage
WH Group, formerly known as Shuanghui Group, is a publicly traded Hong Kong-based multinational meat and food processing company headquartered in Hong Kong. Sometimes also known as Shineway Group in English-speaking countries, the company's businesses include hog raising, consumer meat products, flavoring products, and logistics. It is the largest meat producer in China.
Food & Beverage
Winland Foods is a food and beverage manufacturing company headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company operates multiple production facilities across the United States, focusing on producing high-quality and innovative food products for its customers.
Food & Beverage
Ingredion Incorporated, along with its affiliated entities, specializes in the global production and sale of starches and sweeteners, catering to a diverse range of industries. The company's operations are strategically organized into four geographical segments: North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its extensive product portfolio includes a variety of sweetener solutions such as glucose, high maltose, and high fructose corn syrups, as well as caramel colors, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose syrup solids. Beyond sweeteners, Ingredion also provides food-grade and industrial starches, biomaterials, and key nutrition ingredients. The company further offers specific corn-derived products like edible corn oil, and refined corn oil supplied to manufacturers of cooking oils, margarine, salad dressings, shortening, and mayonnaise. It also produces corn gluten feed, a protein source for poultry, pet food, and aquaculture. Additionally, Ingredion processes fruit and vegetable products, delivering concentrates, purees, essences, pulse proteins, and hydrocolloid systems and blends. These ingredients are predominantly extracted from corn, alongside other starch-rich raw materials such as tapioca, potatoes, and rice. Ingredion's primary clientele hails from the food, beverage, brewing, and animal nutrition sectors. Established in 1906, the firm was initially known as Corn Products International, Inc., before officially rebranding to Ingredion Incorporated in June 2012. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Westchester, Illinois.
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