Kraft Heinz to split a decade after megafood merger
Source: ABC News/AP
September 2, 2025, 6:25 AM
NEW YORK -- Kraft Heinz is splitting into two companies a decade after they joined in a massive merger that created one of the world's biggest food companies on the planet.
One of the companies will include shelf stable meals and include brands such as Heinz, Philadelphia cream cheese and Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kraft Heinz said Tuesday. The other will include brands such as Oscar Mayer, Kraft Singles and Lunchables. The names of the two companies will be released later.
Kraft Heinz said in May that it was conducting a strategic review of the company, signaling a potential split. “Kraft Heinz’s brands are iconic and beloved, but the complexity of our current structure makes it challenging to allocate capital effectively, prioritize initiatives and drive scale in our most promising areas,” Executive Chair Miguel Patricio said in a statement.
The path to the merger of Kraft and Heinz began in 2013, when billionaire investor Warren Buffett teamed up with Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital to buy H.J. Heinz Co. At the time, the $23 billion deal was the most expensive ever in the food industry.
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Our Steelers football stadium was built to be called "Heinz Field" and that's how we've referred to it since 2001.
However the major sponsor - namely Kraft-Heinz - informed us in 2021 that the Heinz Field stadium is to be renamed "Acrisure" Stadium. We all kind of freaked out over this, and many of us still call it "Heinz Field" anyway. But this change happened during the Covid lockdown, and there was no public demonstration or outcry over it.
Acrisure is the new-new-new brand they want to promote, even if the name "Kraft-Heinz" bites the dust.
Meanwhile much of the historic site of the original Heinz corporate headquarters on the Northside has been rehabbed into luxury and/or funky apartments, depending on one's point of view. There's way less manufacturing at the original Pittsburgh plant. The company's executive board and managers are mostly in Chicago now, or they've been laid off.
is named for him (and is a popular bird migration habitat).
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/john-heinz-tinicum
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
That first pic is OLD! It doesn't have the 2 Comcast towers in it! 
This one has both towers (the first opened in 2008 and the 2nd in 2017) -
