Mondelez International, formerly Kraft Foods Group Inc., is an American multinational food and beverage company based in Chicago, Illinois. The company has an annual revenue of about $26.5 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries. It ranked No. 108 in the 2021 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
The company had its origins as Kraft Foods Inc., which was founded in Chicago in 1923. The present enterprise was established in 2012 when Kraft Foods was renamed Mondelez and retained its snack food business, while its North American grocery business was spun off to a new company called Kraft Foods Group, which three years later merged with Heinz to form Kraft Heinz.
The following are brands and products under the Mondelez umbrella:
- Alpen Gold, including Alpen Gold Nussbeisser (Chocolate products)
- BelVita (Biscuits)
- Cadbury (Chocolate products)
- Clif (Protein bars)
- Clorets (Gum)
- Club Social (Crackers)
- Côte d’Or (Chocolate Products)
- Daim & Marabou Swedish (Chocolates and Biscuits)
- Easy Cheese (Can cheese products)
- Enjoy Life Foods
- Freia (Chocolates products)
- Grenade (Protein bars)
- Halls (Cough Drops)
- Honey Maid (Snacks and Crackers)
- Hu (Snacks and Bars)
- LU, Prince, Mikado (Biscuits and Cookies)
- Maynards Bassetts (Liquorice and Wine Gums)
- Milka (Chocolate products)
- Nabisco (Cookies, Chips Ahoy, etc)
- Oreo (Cookies)
- Perfect Snacks (Protein bars)
- Philadelphia Cream Cheese
- Ritz (Crackers and snack foods)
- Royal Food Products
- Sour Patch Kids & Swedish Fish (Candy products)
- Stride Gum
- Tang Drink Mix
- Tate’s Bake Shop Cookies
- Toblerone (Chocolate products)
- Triscuit (Crackers and Snacks)
- TUC Crackers
- Wheat Thins Crackers
Mondelez has three factories in Russia and has been designated as an “International Sponsor of War” by Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention due to its ongoing business activities there.
Mondelez has faced a significant boycott in Scandinavia, particularly in Sweden and Norway, due to its continued operations in Russia. Companies like SAS, Norwegian Air, and SJ halted sales of Mondelez products following Ukraine’s designation of Mondelez as an “international sponsor of war” for maintaining business in Russia. https://b4ukraine.org/whats-new/mondelez-backlash
Pro-Israel Connections
Mondelez International has been involved in several initiatives related to Israel, particularly in the food technology sector, investing in Israeli snacks startups, including Torr and The Kitchen.
In 2019, Mondelez International announced a collaboration with Israel’s Strauss-Group powered The Kitchen, a FoodTech-focused incubator. The collaboration provides Mondelez with access to innovative technologies and allows The Kitchen’s startups to benefit from Mondelez’s expertise and resources.
Mondelez, through its SnackFutures hub, made a seed investment in Torr, an early-stage Israeli FoodTech company, alongside The Kitchen Hub. This investment reflects Mondelez’s interest in collaborating with Israeli to develop new snack products.
Another source of concern is whether Mondelez sources ingredients from settlements in the West Bank. While the company hasn’t publicly released detailed information specifying the origin of all its ingredients, this lack of transparency fuels much of the debate surrounding the company’s relationship with Israel.
