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General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William (C. W.) Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895.. The company changed its name to "General Foods" in 1929, after several corporate acquisitions, by Marjorie Merriweather Post after she inherited the established cereal business from her father, C. W. Post.
Cadbury, formerly Cadbury's and Cadbury Schweppes, is a British multinational confectionery company owned by Mondelez International (originally Kraft Foods) since 2010.It is the second-largest confectionery brand in the world, after Mars. [3]
Côte d'Or (French pronunciation: [kot dɔʁ] ⓘ) is a producer of Belgian chocolate, owned by Mondelez International.Côte d'Or was founded in 1883 by Charles Neuhaus in Schaerbeek, Belgium, [1] a chocolate manufacturer who used the name "Côte d'Or" (French for Gold Coast [2]) referring to the old name of contemporary Ghana, the source of many of the cacao beans used in chocolate manufacturing.
Milka is a Swiss brand of chocolate confectionery. Originally made in Switzerland in 1901 by Suchard, it has been produced in Lörrach, Germany, from 1901. [3] [4] Since 2012 it has been owned by US-based company Mondelez International, when it started following the steps of its predecessor Kraft Foods Inc., which had taken over the brand in 1990.
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1875 and changed its name to R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. in 1970.It became RJR Nabisco on April 25, 1986, after the company's $4.9 billion purchase, and earlier 1.9 billion stock swap, of Nabisco Brands Inc. in 1985.
[3] [4] The Tang brand is currently owned in most countries by Mondelēz International, a North American company spun off from Kraft Foods in 2012. Kraft Heinz owns the Tang brand in North America. Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn 's Mercury flight in February 1962, [ 5 ] and on subsequent Gemini missions. [ 6 ]
According to Altria, it was created because Philip Morris wished to emphasize that its business portfolio had come to consist of more than Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris International; at the time, it owned an 84% stake in Kraft, [4] although that business has since been spun off. [5]
Mars Inc. is an American multinational manufacturer of confectionery, pet food, and other food products and a provider of animal care services, with US$45 billion in annual sales in 2022; [7] that year Forbes ranked the company as the fourth-largest privately held company in the United States. [8]