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'''Kraft Foods Group, Inc.''' was an American food manufacturing and processing [[conglomerate (company)|conglomerate]],<ref name="kficompany">{{cite web |url=https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Kraft-Foods-Inc-Company-History.html |title=Kraft Foods Inc. |access-date=March 10, 2008 |year=2002 |publisher=Funding Universe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017224010/http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Kraft-Foods-Inc-Company-History.html |archive-date=October 17, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kraft Heinz moving Illinois headquarters from Northfield to Chicago |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2015/07/16/kraft-heinz-moving-illinois-headquarters-from.html |access-date=September 16, 2018 |work=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref>
 
A merger with Heinz, arranged by Heinz owners [[Berkshire Hathaway]] and [[3G Capital]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-25/3g-capital-berkshire-to-buy-kraft-foods-merge-it-with-heinz |title=Kraft Will Merge With Heinz in Deal Backed by 3G and Buffett |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=March 25, 2015 |first1=Craig |last1=Giammona |first2=Matthew |last2=Boyle |access-date=July 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kraft-m-a-heinz-idUSKBN0ML0YK20150325 |title=Kraft Foods to merge with ketchup maker Heinz |work=Reuters |date=March 25, 2015 |access-date=March 25, 2015}}</ref> was completed on July 2, 2015, forming [[The Kraft Heinz Company]], the fifth-largest [[food and beverage]] company in the world.<ref name=time3757678>{{cite magazine |url=httphttps://time.com/3757678/kraft-heinz-merger/ |title=Kraft and Heinz Merge to Become World's 5th-Largest Food Company |first=Nolan |last=Feeney |date=March 25, 2015 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2015/07/02/goodbye-h-j-heinz-co-kraft-heinz-merger-a-done.html |title=Goodbye H.J. Heinz Co.; Kraft Heinz merger a done deal |last=Coyne |first=Justine |date=July 2, 2015 |work=[[Pittsburgh Business Times]] |access-date = July 3, 2015}}</ref>
 
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