Kraft Foods Inc. is a company with many different roots and founders,
all sharing a commitment to quality, a willingness to take risks and a
spirit of innovation. Among the products now sold by Kraft Foods Inc.
are so many “firsts” and innovations that a history of the company is
almost a history of the food industry. Kraft traces its history to three of
the most successful food entrepreneurs of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries — J.L. Kraft, who started his cheese business in 1903; C.W.
Post, who founded Postum Cereal Company (later renamed General
Foods Corporation) in 1895; and Oscar Mayer, who began his meat business in 1883.