Kraft Foods Pledges $1 Million to Support Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts.NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for announced today that it will provide an initial $1 million in food and cash grants to assist with the Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. relief efforts. This includes $700,000 in food
donations; the first shipment - eight truckloads of Fruit20 flavored
water, Planters nuts, Capri Sun Capri Sun is a brand of juice drink owned by the German Company WILD (Chairman Dr. Hans-Peter Wild) sold in silver pouches. Kraft Foods is a licensed production partner, and owns the exclusive rights for North America. beverages, snacks and cookies - is
already on its way. The balance of $300,000 will come in the form of
grants for food and shelter relief efforts.
In addition to the $1 million commitment, Kraft is providing several ways to help their employees extend a helping hand including a matching gifts program, food and clothing drives, and other volunteer efforts. Kraft Foods markets many of the world's leading food brands, including Kraft cheese, Maxwell House Maxwell House is a brand of coffee manufactured by a like-named division of Kraft Foods. It is named in honor of the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. For many years until the late 1980s it was the largest-selling coffee in the U.S. and is currently (ca. and Jacobs coffees, Nabisco cookies and crackers, Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, now owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products. German immigrant Oscar Ferdinand Mayer meats, Post cereals and Milka chocolates, in more than 155 countries. For more information on Kraft Foods, please visit our website at www.kraft.com. |
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