Kraft Foods Inc.

Kids may be worried about homework, teachers and that pesky bully this school year. But parents? They're leery about lunches. With food prices rising and packages shrinking, parents are wondering how they'll stretch their food budgets. Children are going...

Kids might be worried about homework, teachers and that pesky bully this school year. But parents? They're leery about lunches. With food prices rising and packages shrinking, parents are wondering how they'll stretch their food budgets. Children are...

Now that children are back in school, their worries may include homework, teachers and that pesky bully. But parents? They're leery about lunches. With food prices rising and packages shrinking, parents are wondering how to stretch food budgets. Children...

Kraft Foods Inc. reported yesterday that second-quarter profit increased almost 4 percent in the April-June period to $732 million, or 48 cents per share, from $707 million, or 44 cents per share, a year earlier. A weak dollar and gains from an...

Marc Schulman says he hates to do it, but after paying his latest bills for butter, milk and cream cheese, he has no choice. The price of his Chicago-made Eli's Cheesecake is going up. In fact, his 5 percent boost in wholesale rates this month may not be...

Consumers might not have noticed, but their bottles of Coke are slimming down: The cap on the 20-ounce bottle is a tad smaller these days and 24 percent lighter. Kraft Foods Inc.'s new salad dressing bottles have gone on a diet as well. They use 19...

Kraft Foods Inc., citing price hikes it pushed through to help offset the effect of soaring raw-material costs, turned in second-quarter results that topped analyst forecasts. For the last several quarters, the Northfield-based packaged food company...

NEW YORK—On the surface, U.S. companies' second-quarter earnings were fairly respectable when you strip away the financial sector: Profits for Standard & Poor's 500 members rose about 10 percent from a year earlier after falling sharply the two...

In this nation of bulging nibblers, it appears we're able to resist a big bag of Oreo cookies about as well as a hungry hound can keep off an untended platter of ham. But that's OK. Who needs the quaint, pre-obesity epidemic concept of self-control...

Food manufacturers' recipe for success these days is to pass down their own ingredient cost increases to retailers and ultimately consumers, and Kraft Foods Inc. succeeded in a big way during the second quarter. Northfield-based Kraft on Monday beat...

Earnings season continues. On Monday, look for reports from food and beverage giant Kraft Foods Inc. and chewing gum-maker Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. On Thursday, shareholders will find out how Motorola Inc. is faring in the handset market. The market's...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a rebuke to the effort by Illinois' largest doctor group to regulate retail clinics, criticizing some of a bill's provisions as being anti-competitive and harmful to consumers. The bill to increase regulation of...