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Florida Police: Robert Kraft, Owner Of Patriots, To Face Solicitation Charges

4:44pm February 22, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The charges are part of a sting on a local spa. Kraft is being charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution, a misdemeanor, tied to two different visits to the spa.

The world of mainstream consumer brands is in a major slow-motion transformation.

From Campbell's To Kellogg's, Classic Brands Are Feeling The Crunch

6:58pm January 01, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

Big mainstream consumer brands, which have owned our cupboards and closets, face a turning point: a time to evolve or wither. The Internet and the echoes of the recession have changed us as shoppers.

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Cheez Whiz Helped Spread Processed Foods. Will It Be Squeezed Out?

10:33am March 29, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Turns out, the history of Kraft's dull-orange cheese spread says a lot about the processed food industry — and where it might be headed as Kraft and Heinz merge.

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Heinz And Kraft: Before They Were Food Giants, They Were Men

8:00pm March 25, 2015

by NPR Staff

Henry Heinz was big into pickles before ketchup came along. James Kraft gave the world American cheese. (Ironically, he was Canadian.) Now, two companies that revamped how we eat will become one.

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Commemorative ketchup bottles with portraits of Warren Buffett are seen at the exhibition of Berkshire Hathaway companies at the annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., on May 3, 2014. Kraft Foods said it will merge with ketchup maker H.J. Heinz Co., owned by 3G C

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Heinz, Kraft Announce Merger

7:33am March 25, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The deal would create the world's fifth-biggest food and beverage company. It would bring together under one corporate roof iconic brands such as Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer and Philadelphia.