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Creating 
a more 
delicious 
world

Our 2010 repOrt

Message from Our Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer

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irene B. rosenfeld  
Chairman and  
Chief Executive Officer 

Ever since my first “job” selling 
girl scout cookies, i believed 
that business could be a force  
for good. today, i know it is. 

Business is a vital part of the success of most 
nations. from Chile to China. the united states 
to ukraine. Well-run businesses contribute to 
society in so many ways: Providing jobs, creating 
robust supply chains, revitalizing communities, 
innovating solutions for some of the world’s 
toughest challenges, contributing to public 
coffers and delivering shareholder returns that 
enable further investment. But companies that 
can successfully and simultaneously balance 
the short- and long-term interests of the 
multiple constituents they serve can do the 
most good. they can, indeed, change the  
world for the better. 

that’s one of the reasons i’m so proud to  
be leading Kraft foods, where we say that 
“delicious is our difference.” Yes, our products 
taste delicious. But to us, it’s more than that. 
delicious is also our corporate purpose … the 
mindset and spirit we apply to everything we  
do and how we do it. it’s also why we titled  
this report, “Creating a more delicious world.” 

as a global food company, we can help raise 
people up—out of hunger, out of poverty, toward 
healthier lifestyles—through what we make and 
how we make it. Millions of times a day … in ways 
big and small … quite literally around the world, 
we’re doing just that. and we do it at multiple 
points in our supply chain … from our agriculture 
sourcing initiatives that have made us a leading 
purchaser of sustainable cocoa, coffee and 
cashews to our finished products, like Biskuat 
and Tiger fortified biscuits that help indonesian 
moms ensure their kids get the right vitamins 
and minerals to grow to their full potential. 

“Creating a more delicious world” is a lofty  
goal to be sure. But we make it achievable by 
taking a pragmatic approach. first, we focus  
our efforts where we can make the greatest 
difference. Our global priorities are food safety, 
health and well-being, and sustainability. next,  
we agree on the goals, strategies and actions  
to achieve each priority. 

Our goals, whether financial or philanthropic,  
are designed to be ambitious, but achievable. 
Our strategies are long term, spanning  
decades in some cases. But the targets we  
set to evaluate our progress are measured in 
increments of five years or less. that way, the 
same people who set the targets can also be 

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held accountable for delivering them. finally, 
our actions focus on what we call the “three Ps” 
for creating lasting change: Products, Policies 
and Partnerships. all three are important, but  
i want to elaborate a bit on Partnerships. Even 
though there is a lot we can do as the world’s 
second-largest food company, many of the 
issues we’re tackling are so big that we can  
only achieve lasting change when we work  
with others. so together with our suppliers, 
customers and consumers … with governments, 
multilateral organizations and nongovernmental 
organizations (ngOs) … we look for innovative 
ways to combine our inherent strengths and 
capabilities to achieve the kinds of significant 
change we all want—for ourselves, for our 
children and for generations to come. 

in the following pages, i encourage you to  
take a look at what we’re doing and what we’ve 
accomplished, on our own and in partnership 
with others around the world. this report covers 
both the legacy Kraft foods and Cadbury 
businesses and summarizes our 2010 progress 
in the areas of highest societal interest. 

We’re not perfect, and we’re not finished. But  
by focusing on what matters most and where  
we can make the biggest difference, i am 
confident we’re on the right path. We’re working 
to support healthier lifestyles and sustainable 
agriculture. seeking solutions that, by design, 
benefit our business and our society. Working 
for outcomes that are sustainable and scalable. 
and sharing our progress and setbacks along 
the way. We can’t do everything, but we are 
doing a great deal. We’re proud of what we’ve 
accomplished and how it is helping consumers 
and communities around the world live more 
deliciously every day. 

irene B. rosenfeld  
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer  
Kraft foods inc. 
May 2011 

irene rosenfeld helps build  
a playground in Chicago’s 
Washington Park, one of  
13 playgrounds built as part of 
our partnership with KaBOOM! 
during delicious difference  
Week in 2010. during this  
week, nearly 25,000 employees 
in 56 countries engaged in 
community activities to help 
fight hunger and promote 
healthy lifestyles.

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delicious @ work Highlights

since 1999 in the u.s. 
alone, we’ve helped 
provide more than 
1 billion servings  
of food  
to those in need

today, we’re helping to 
improve the livelihoods 
of more than 
1 million farmers 
through partnerships 
that support sustainable 
agriculture

during the last five years, 
we’ve improved the nutrition 
profile of more than
5,500 products 

in 2010, we reduced sodium 
in 340 north american 
products—removing nearly 
3 million kilograms  
(6.5 million pounds)  
of salt

in 2010, women made  
up 35% of management 
worldwide. 
43% of our  
salaried employees  
were women 

since 2005, we’ve significantly increased our purchases of 
certified coffee and cocoa (measured in metric tons)
Kraft Foods certified coffee and cocoa bean buying 

 Rainforest Alliance  
Certified™ coffee 
 Fairtrade sugar 
 Fairtrade cocoa
 Rainforest Alliance  
Certified™ cocoa 

50,000

24,000
19,000
11,000

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

we’ve cut 

97 million 

p
kilometers*

(60 million miles) from our  
global transportation network

we’ve cut greenhouse gas emissions 
and energy use by 

we’ve reduced 
our waste by

we’ve reduced water 
consumption by 

we’ve cut our packaging  
by nearly

p

18%*

greenhouse 
gases

p

16%*

energy 
use

 *data normalized to production with a 2005 baseline.

p 42%*

p 30%*

p
100,000 
metric tons*

(200 million pounds)

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“InMed Partnerships for Children is proud to work with the Kraft Foods Foundation toward 
our shared goals to fight hunger and malnutrition, and to help youth put health into action. 
Together, we are creating hope and opportunity for the next generation, providing more 
than 100,000 of Brazil’s most vulnerable youth with the foundation of knowledge and 
good health they need to transform their futures.” 

Linda pfeiffer, Ph.d., President and CEO, inMEd Partnerships for Children

“As the numbers of 
hungry increase, 
we need private 
companies like 
Kraft Foods to join us 
in the fight against 
hunger. It’s a fight 
too big for any one 
player, but together 
we can find new ways 
to dramatically reduce 

malnutrition.” 

Josette Sheeran,  
Executive director,  

World food Programme

“ Kraft Foods Foundation is helping to make 
nutritious food available in schools and 
communities to combat the high rates of 
malnutrition in young children. Families are 
also learning the skills they need to make 
healthy choices to improve the nutritional 
status of their children. The Foundation’s 
impact will be felt for generations.”

Charles MacCormack,  
President and CEO, save the Children

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“We are all responsible 
for ensuring the long-
term health of our 
planet. As the leading 
purchaser of coffee and 
cocoa from rainforest 
Alliance Certified™ 
farms, Kraft Foods 
is doing its part by 
helping farmers earn 
a good living as they 
conserve wildlife 
habitats and the vital 
natural resources on 
which we all depend.”

tensie Whelan, 
President,  

the rainforest alliance

“Kraft Foods’ commitment to Fairtrade is helping to build a better future for many 
thousands of cocoa farmers, their families and their communities. Through this 
commitment, farmers can enjoy more secure, sustainable livelihoods. We look forward  
to building on this partnership to create a better future for even more farmers.”

rob Cameron, Chief Executive, fairtrade labelling Organizations (flO) international

“CARe is pleased to be working alongside Kraft Foods to improve 
the lives of people living in poor communities. Through savings, 
education, entrepreneurship and innovative technologies, thousands 
of cocoa farmers are benefiting from more sustainable cocoa 
farming systems. Together, we are making a real difference in the 
lives of many rural families around the globe.” 

Helene D. Gayle, Md, MPh, President and CEO, CarE

“Soon, 9 billion people will seek to improve their  
lives in the context of a single planet. And every business 
in every industry will be forced to grapple with finding 
ways to meet their needs while using less water, carbon 
and land. We work with companies like Kraft Foods that 
are willing and able to influence the future of the planet 
by working to positively advance the way agricultural 
commodities are produced, bought and sold.”

Carter roberts, President and CEO, World Wildlife fund, u.s.

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Our focus is to make our brands— 
foods consumers love—nutritionally  
better and more wholesome, without 
compromising taste.

today, the world faces the paradoxical  
challenge of addressing both hunger and 
obesity. according to the World Health 
Organization, one in six people in the world 
doesn’t get enough to eat. at the same time, 
one in five is overweight or obese. 

tackling such complex challenges requires  
a collaborative approach involving consumers, 
companies, governments and civil society.

so we take a three-pronged approach,  
combining our products, policies and 
partnerships, so our cumulative efforts  
can help make a real difference. 

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Some of our 5,500 better  
choices worldwide:

Brazil: Mini Philadelphia cream 
cheese with 40 percent less sodium 
than the local Requeijão cheese.

iberia: Fruit & Fit biscuits, made with 
30 percent fruit and just 49 calories 
per biscuit.

philippines: Tang Fruitrition, a 
powdered beverage mix fortified  
with a combination of vitamins and 
minerals found in fruit juices and 
needed by the population. 

for more examples, see our  
Health & Wellness Fact Sheet.

Products: Making the foods  
people love even better 

around the world, people eat and drink about 
900 million servings of Kraft foods products 
every day. that gives us an enormous 
opportunity to have a positive impact on 
consumers’ health and well-being. so our focus 
is on making our products more nutritious and 
more wholesome, while still delivering the same 
delicious taste people have come to expect. 

Based on what our consumers tell us they  
want, we focus our efforts on three areas:

•	 foods with less fat, sodium, sugar  

and calories. 

•	 foods with more beneficial ingredients,  
such as whole grains, fiber, healthier  
oils and micronutrients.

•	 foods that are “simpler:” easier-to-

understand ingredient lines and fewer  
artificial ingredients. 

since 2005, we’ve reformulated or launched 
more than 5,500 products that meet one  
or more of these focus areas. Our goal is  
to continually grow the number of options  
in our portfolio that give consumers better 
choices for healthier and more wholesome 
foods. it’s good for consumers and it’s good  
for business. 

ReMOVInG OR RedUCInG nUTRIenTS 
COnSUMeRS WAnT leSS OF

SOdIUM  Much of the world’s population is 
consuming too much sodium. While sodium 
reduction isn’t new for Kraft foods, in 2010  
we began to accelerate our efforts to further 
reduce it in our products, without compromising 
taste or safety. this is a tough challenge for  
the entire food industry, but we feel good  
about our progress: 

•	 in the u.s. and Canada, our largest and  

most diverse portfolios, we announced plans 
to cut sodium by an average of 10 percent  
by 2012 across the portfolio. in 2010 alone, 
we removed nearly 3 million kilograms 
(6.5 million pounds) of salt from 340 
products. and we plan to reduce sodium  
in hundreds more products. 

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•	 in latin america this year, we initiated plans 

•	 in Europe, since 2008, we reduced saturated 

fat by 54 percent in our Prince biscuits. 
We’re also eliminating partially hydrogenated 
vegetable oils from our biscuits and exploring 
ways to reduce or limit these oils in other 
products worldwide.

•	 in australia, we launched Philadelphia 
cooking cream, a dairy-based cooking 
product that has 60 percent less fat  
than regular cooking cream.

to reduce sodium by an average of 
5 percent—equal to 227,000 kilograms 
(0.5 million pounds) of salt—across our 
biscuit and cheese lines by the end of 2012. 

•	 in Europe, we continued our sodium 

reduction efforts with our Dairylea cheese 
lines, where we’ve reduced sodium by 
30 percent since 2002.

SATURATed And TRAnS FATS  heart disease  
is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. 
research has shown that reducing saturated 
fats and trans fats may help to improve heart 
health. and we know our consumers look at  
the fat content of products when trying to make 
healthier choices. that’s why over the years, 
we’ve been removing saturated and trans fats. 

•	 in the u.s., we reformulated our 2 percent 
cheeses so that they taste just as good as  
full-fat cheese, and we launched our fat-free 
Tassimo skinny Cappuccino. 

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these are just some of the Kraft 
foods brands where we’ve either 
lowered the sugar content or offer  
a sugar-free option.

SUGAR  Consumers are also seeking products 
with less sugar, and health officials are 
encouraging people to eat less as well. so,  
we’ve taken action: 

•	 in the u.s., we reduced the sugar in our 

Capri Sun juice drinks. We also introduced 
sugar-free Jell-O Mousse cups. 

•	 in latin america, we reduced the sugar  
in our Tang powdered beverages and we 
introduced several sugar-free products, 
including Clight powdered beverages. 

•	 in Europe, we reduced the sugar in  

our Belvita biscuits by about 8 percent 
during the last four years.

•	 and globally, we offer sugar-free versions  
of Halls throat lozenges and Trident gums.

CAlORIeS  today, many consumers are  
looking for foods that are either lower in  
calories or come in portion sizes that can help 
them control their caloric intake. to meet this 
need, we offer a range of calorie- and/or 
portion-controlled options. 

in Europe, we offer our Belvita biscuits in  
100 calorie packs and our Prince biscuits  
now contain less than 100 calories per serving. 
We also sell Cadbury Highlights, a low-calorie 
drinking chocolate, with only 40 calories and 
less than 1 percent fat per serving. throughout 
the u.s. and Canada, we have a wide variety of 
biscuits and cheeses in 100 calorie packages.

Kraft foods is a founding member of the 
Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation— 
a multiyear effort launched in 2009 to help 
reduce obesity in the u.s., especially among 
children. as part of that commitment, we 
continue to develop and introduce lower calorie 
options of many of our brands. We’ve changed 
recipes where possible to lower the calorie 
content or reduced portion sizes of existing 
single-serve products. in 2010, the foundation 
members pledged to reduce 1.5 trillion calories 
in their portfolios by the end of 2015, using 
2008 as the baseline. 

AddInG InGRedIenTS COnSUMeRS WAnT

We’re not just removing ingredients consumers 
don’t want; we’re also adding more of what  
they do want. 

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here are some examples where 
we’ve increased whole grain 
content in our European biscuits.

WHOle GRAInS  Most consumers don’t get 
enough whole grains. so we’re finding new  
ways to increase the whole grain content of  
our products. Our researchers have developed  
a proprietary technology that enables us to  
use the whole germ of the grain. When we  
add whole grains to our products, we’re now 
able to provide consumers with much more  
of what they want and need, while maintaining 
the taste they love. 

eSSenTIAl VITAMInS And MIneRAlS  to help 
address malnutrition in developing markets, we 
offer foods fortified with micronutrients. We  
don’t simply add the nutrients people need.  
We invest in technology that helps ensure  
that the nutrients we use can effectively and 
efficiently be absorbed by the body. and we 
price these products affordably so they are well 
within reach for millions of consumers with 
limited disposable income. Examples include:

•	 in the u.s., in 2010, we announced that we 
would double the amount of whole grains in 
our Nabisco cracker brands by 2013. When 
we’re done, Nabisco crackers will account  
for 9 billion servings of whole grains in the 
american diet each year.

•	 in latin america, we added whole grains to 
our popular Trakinas, Belvita, Ceralitas and 
Club Social biscuits. 

•	 in the Eu, we increased the number of our 

biscuit and crisp bread products that contain 
whole grains by 50 percent. 

•	 and, in China, we launched the country’s  
first whole grain biscuit, which provides 
10 percent of the recommended daily 
amount of fiber in one serving. 

•	 Tiger and Biskuat biscuits, sold in indonesia, 

are fortified with nine vitamins and six 
minerals. developed in collaboration with the 
World Food Programme and The Indonesian 
Association of nutritionists, our biscuits 
supplement the daily nutritional requirements 
of a growing child, at an average cost of 100 
to 500 rupiah (between one and six cents 
u.s.) per pack. 

•	 globally, we fortify our Tang powdered 

beverage drink with vitamin C and add other 
key nutrients specific to a country’s needs—
such as iron in southeast asia, vitamin B-12 
and folic acid in China, iodine in the Middle 
East, and vitamins a and E in argentina  
and uruguay.

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few low-income families in Brazil 
have access to oral care. so by  
the time they are lucky enough  
to see a dentist, their conditions 
are often extreme. 

that’s where dentista do Bem 
(dentist for good) comes in. 
sponsored by Trident chewing 
gum since 2006, dentista do 
Bem provides free dental services, 
including reconstruction and 
preventive treatment, to 
underprivileged children— 
until they reach the age of 18. 

in 2010, 15,000 children received 
free dental care—and now are 
proudly showing their smiles. 

Our affordable nutrition products have small 
price tags, but they are big business for us. 
that’s why we chose to invest in expanded 
capacity. that way, we can bring more 
consumers more of the essential vitamins and 
minerals they need at prices they can afford. 

HeAlTHy SMIleS  People chew gum for a 
variety of reasons—to help relieve stress, to 
improve dental health and freshen breath, or  
to relax and enjoy a refreshing break. research 
has shown there are many oral health benefits 
from chewing gum … especially if it’s sugar-
free … and the American dental Association  
and World dental Federation agree. Just the 
physical action of chewing gum for at least 
20 minutes after eating stimulates saliva flow, 
helping to prevent cavities by reducing plaque 
acids and strengthening teeth. 

today, more than 70 percent of our gum 
worldwide is sugar-free. in addition, our Trident 
Xtra Care and Trident Total sugar-free gums, 
available in several countries, contain the 
proprietary ingredient recaldent. research has 
shown that chewing a recaldent-containing 
gum—versus a regular sugar-free gum—helps 
strengthen teeth by actively promoting tooth 
re-mineralization and protecting against tooth 
decay. People want healthy teeth and they want 
them to look good, too. Our sugar-free Trident 
White gum has been clinically shown to help 

remove and prevent the formation of stains when 
used as part of a normal teeth-cleaning routine. 

Policies: leading in ways  
that make a difference

nutrition awareness and education are critical to 
helping consumers make better choices about 
their health and well-being. Our marketing and 
communication policies are designed to ensure 
that consumers have clear nutrition information 
about our products. 

AdVeRTISInG TO CHIldRen  how we market 
our products matters. that’s why we take great 
care to market and advertise responsibly—
especially to children. in 2005, we became  
the first company to announce global policies 
for advertising to children*, with three main 
focus areas: 

•	 We don’t advertise to children under  

age 6 (long-standing policy). 

•	 for children ages 6 through 11, we only 
advertise those products that meet  
specific nutrition criteria. 

•	 We don’t advertise in primary or  

secondary schools. 

* in late 2010, the legacy Cadbury business began implementing these 
provisions and will be in full compliance by January 2012.

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“Market 
responsibly.”

Kraft foods Code of Conduct, rule 2

Our labels list the amount of each nutrient  
in a given portion of the product and/or per 
100 grams or milliliters, depending on local 
regulations. in most cases, our labels also 
include the percentage that each nutrient 
provides of the recommended daily value (dv),  
daily intake (di) or guideline daily amounts 
(GdAs)—or the local equivalent where available.

We’re also pursuing front-of-pack labeling that 
delivers meaningful information at a glance, and 
are increasing our front-of-pack labeling around 
the world. in australia and the Eu, we provide 
front-of-pack information on calories, based on 
the percentage of di and percentage of gda, 
respectively. in the u.s., we support nutrition 
Keys a front-of-pack program, developed by the 
Grocery Manufacturers Association and Food 
Marketing Institute. and in asia Pacific, we are 
currently exploring front-of-pack options with 
the broader food industry.

Our practices have become the model for how 
and what many other companies advertise to 
children. We were a founding member of the 
International Food & Beverage Alliance, and, 
along with other members, made a global 
commitment to the World health Organization 
to advertise only products that meet specific 
nutrition criteria to children under age 12 and to 
monitor our efforts. We’ve made similar pledges 
in australia, Brazil, Canada, india, Mexico, 
russia, south africa, turkey, u.s. and all Eu 
countries. implementing pledges at the national 
level encourages local companies to follow our 
lead and to improve the types of products they 
advertise to children as well.

PROdUCT lABelInG  since 2007, we’ve 
provided nutrition labeling on products 
worldwide. 

following the recommendations of the Codex 
Alimentarius, a set of globally recognized,  
widely used food standards, our labels provide 
information on calories plus seven key nutrients 
where space permits: protein, carbohydrates, 
sugar, fat, saturated fat, fiber and sodium. On 
very small packages and others with limited 
space, we list calories, protein, carbohydrates 
and total fat, per Codex recommendations. 

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policies

partnerships

deLICIous @ WoRk

whether it’s a hard-to-reach rural 
area or an urban neighborhood 
without a grocery store, the Kraft  
Foods mobile pantry program is 
making a difference for families 
living in the u.s. “food deserts.” 

in 2009, our company and 
Foundation pledged $4.5 million 
over three years to Feeding america. 
the mobile pantry program is 
bringing more food—and better 
nutrition—to children and families 
who need it most. 

in 2010, Kraft Foods also partnered 
on a cause-marketing program 
called Huddle to Fight Hunger. this 
national campaign raised awareness 
about hunger and led to 21 million 
meals being donated across america.

www.feedingamerica.org

we also provide nutrition information online  
and via toll-free consumer call centers. our 
Healthy living websites in several countries  
offer lifestyle tips and recipes. and in the u.s., 
our Good eating, Good Living website provides 
information for people living with diabetes.  
we also provide this information in spanish  
at our comidakraft.com website.

as we develop and assess our policies, we 
engage with other organizations. For example, 
we have participated in consultations with the 
world Health organization on the subjects of 
sodium intake and advertising to children. in 
brazil, we’ve facilitated conversations among  
our technology and nutrition teams and  
leading nutritionists and health professionals  
on local nutritional needs. in europe, our  
biscuit research and development teams take 
part in global forums on whole grains with key 
nutrition and public health leaders, including 
the european nutrition Congress and 
HeALTHGRAIn Forum. 

and our own Worldwide Health & Wellness 
Advisory Council informs our work and helps 
guide our efforts in providing consumers with 
more choices to meet their needs in health  
and well-being. 

Partnerships: Together  
we can make it happen

it takes all sectors of society to successfully  
fight global hunger, obesity and the underlying 
causes of malnutrition. so, in communities 
throughout the world, we’re working with 
nongovernmental organizations (ngos)  
that demonstrate they know how to make  
a real difference. 

our partnerships are built on a long history.  
and in 2009, Kraft Foods and its Foundation 
renewed their commitment, providing 
$180 million of cash and food over three years 
to leading community organizations that help 
meet immediate needs and create long-term 
change. these partners work to give families a 
“hand up” rather than a “handout” by providing 
the nutrition education and economic 
empowerment to create lasting change.

whether it’s helping farmers grow and sell  
their cocoa crops or teaching families the 
fundamentals of good nutrition, together  
with our partners, we are providing the 
necessary tools that empower communities  
to successfully combat hunger and related 
health issues themselves. 

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“ If women in rural areas had 
the same access to land, 
technology, financial services, 
education and markets as 
men, agricultural production 
could be increased and the 
number of hungry people 
reduced by 100–150 million.”

The State of Food and Agriculture, 
2010–2011

www.fao.org

•	 empowering local food entrepreneurs— 

We know that when women earn income, 
90 percent of it gets reinvested into families. 
so to help break the cycle of poverty, we’re 
helping women operate mobile retail stores 
(bikes or carts) that sell nutritious foods,  
soap and agricultural supplies. this helps the 
women make a living while bringing needed 
products and supplies to their communities.

•	 encouraging lifelong healthy habits— 
in addition to working with farmers  
and entrepreneurs, we’re also training 
community leaders to deliver nutrition 
education at schools and other places  
where families gather.

PARTneRSHIPS On THe FROnTlIneS OF 
FIGHTInG HUnGeR And MAlnUTRITIOn

indonesia and Bangladesh rank fifth and sixth, 
respectively, for the highest rates of chronic 
child malnutrition. so in 2010, our company 
and foundation entered a five-year public-
private partnership with the World food 
Programme to tackle the root causes of 
malnutrition. Called Project laser Beam, our 
part of the program has three components:

•	 Supporting local farming—given that  

nearly 75 percent of families facing hunger 
live in rural areas, often the most immediate 
solution is to support local agriculture. to  
that end, Project laser Beam is helping  
to establish women-operated rural farms  
that grow vegetables and raise livestock.  
By giving women access to seeds, fertilizers 
and credit, we equip them to provide food  
for their families and offer a chance for 
long-term income. 

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When amy abing came to save the 
Children’s gardening training in the 
Philippines, she seemed discouraged 
and malnourished. a single mother 
with a kidney ailment, she earns  
$8 a month. timidly, she said there 
were miserable days when she and 
her two children missed meals. 

at the class, sponsored by the 
Kraft foods foundation, amy learned 
how to plant and maintain an urban 
garden. from her small plot, she  
now feeds her two daughters and 
even has a little left over to sell to 
neighbors. “nowadays, my children 
and i eat cooked rice with boiled 
vegetables dipped in vinegar with  
salt and sliced onions,” she boasts.

www.savethechildren.org

in China, since 2009, we’ve built 100  
“Kraft Hope Kitchens” in five rural Chinese 
provinces in partnership with the China youth 
development Foundation. When we launched 
the program, surveys showed nearly 70 percent 
of students at these schools felt hungry during  
the day and more than 30 percent sometimes 
couldn’t get enough to eat. the kitchens 
provide children hot, safely prepared foods. they 
provide teachers, parents and staff with new 
skills for nutritious cooking and safe food 
handling. By the end of 2010, we had helped 
thousands of children get hot, nutritious meals. 
More than that, we are giving them—and their 
villages—a start toward long-term health.

Our foundation has been working with Save  
the Children since 2009 to help malnourished 
families in southeast asia. today, they’re 
working in indonesia and the Philippines to 
tackle malnutrition by teaching healthy eating 
and hygiene habits. 

•	 indonesia: With the help of save the 

Children, the foundation is working through  
a unique system of female volunteers who 
consider it a privilege to help other mothers 
and kids in their communities. Children and 
their moms are learning nutrition practices 
and taking those lessons home so the whole 
family eats better. and it’s working. the 
government is expanding the program.

•	 philippines: Our foundation is also working 
to help mothers set up and maintain urban 
vegetable gardens. With very limited space, 
they use recycled plastic containers to grow 
local crops, such as pechay, kangkong and 
labanos. this program won the 2010 asian 
Corporate social responsibility award. 

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“ 38 percent of Hispanic kids 
ages 2 to 19 are overweight 
or obese, compared with 
32 percent of other kids the  
same age.” 

Journal of the American Medical 
Association, 2010 

www.ama-assn.org

PARTneRSHIPS PROMOTInG  
HeAlTHy lIFeSTyleS

Just as we’re working with others to fight 
hunger, we’re also partnering to help families 
get healthy. 

•	 u.S.: Millions of americans live in “food 
deserts,” and many families must travel  
long distances to reach stores that sell  
fresh produce and other foods necessary to 
maintain a healthy diet. The Food Trust is our 
foundation’s partner to increase access to 
fresh foods at local supermarkets, with the 
aim of ultimately reducing the prevalence of 
obesity and other diet-related issues in 
underserved communities. the food trust 
advocates policies that bring new stores 
offering fresh foods to help build healthier 
communities. in 2008, we began working 
with the food trust in illinois. and we’re now 
expanding to four more states: georgia, 
Massachusetts, Minnesota and texas. 

•	 u.S.: Our foundation works with The  

national latino Children’s Institute (nlCI) 
and the yMCA of the USA (y-USA) to 
address the obesity epidemic among latino 
children in the u.s. in 2002, we partnered 
with nlCi on a program called Salsa, Sabor y 
Salud (“food, fun and fitness”). Created by 
latinos for latinos, this program engages 
whole families to eat healthier food and 
increase their physical activity. now our 
foundation is working with the Y-usa to 
expand Salsa, Sabor y Salud into 130 
communities nationwide.

•	 uK and russia: Childhood obesity is on  

the rise in both of these countries. in 2004, 
we launched an initiative in the uK with 
education experts called health4schools.  
it’s an award-winning program that teaches 
children to grow vegetables, prepare healthy 
salads and play active games. after the uK 
launch, we quickly realized that russian kids  
could benefit as well. so, our foundation 
partnered with the Charities Aid Foundation  
to help families make smarter food choices 
and become more physically active. 
health4schools has also enabled several 
russian schools to upgrade cafeterias  
and purchase new gym equipment. 

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•	 Brazil: the country’s most prominent charity 
helped us understand that malnutrition is 
pervasive in the favelas (urban slums) and 
remote rural regions of Brazil. Poor children 
don’t have enough to eat and often get sick 
from parasites in the soil and water. With 
InMed Partnerships for Children, the Kraft 
foods foundation introduced a school-based 
health program that teaches children to grow 
fresh produce for their schools and the 
surrounding community. Moms are starting 
their own gardens and cooking healthier 
meals. and school food workers are learning 
about food safety and nutritious cooking. the 
program also supports low-cost, low-tech 
water purification, along with treatment for 
children with intestinal parasites and anemia. 

Working toward the day  
when everyone can eat  
delicious and live well

Challenges don’t come much bigger than 
global hunger and obesity. solving them  
takes collaboration. We’re doing our part by 
increasing the number of “better choice” 
options in our product portfolio to help 
consumers as they strive to eat better; following 
marketing and communications policies that 
help people make informed choices and 
understand how our foods fit into a balanced 
diet; and partnering with others to take action 
and get the results that enable lasting change.  
We’ll continue working to help speed progress 
toward the day when everyone in the world eats 
delicious and lives well.

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at a small school in Brazil, the play  
is the thing. students producing  
a retelling of Little Red Riding  
Hood cast the Big Bad Wolf as  
a vegetarian who wanted to eat  
the vegetable garden. 

One boy, normally shy and stunted 
from malnutrition, joined in like  
never before. his kinetic enthusiasm 
galvanized the class as he 
transformed into a natural leader. 

“We were caught off guard by  
how strongly the health in action 
program with inMEd Partnerships 
for Children hooked the kids to  
think about nutrition in a fun way,” 
observed a member of our  
visiting team. 

www.inmed.org

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“development that meets the needs of the 
present without compromising the ability of 
future generations to meet their own needs.”

united nations–sponsored Brundtland Commission report

sustainability is about conducting business  
in a way that is environmentally, socially and 
economically responsible. it’s about living  
today, while being mindful of tomorrow. 

the demands being placed on the planet  
are growing. Experts predict that the world’s 
population will reach just about 9 billion by 
2050. and standards of living are expanding  
in much of the developing world. these 
developments put incremental strain on the 
planet. in some areas, experts find that natural 
resources are being depleted faster than the 
earth can replenish them. Clean water and 
arable land are becoming scarce. Clearly, we 
must think and behave differently.

as a food company, Kraft foods is dependent 
on the earth for the raw materials we use every 
day to make our products. We are changing the 
way we do business to become more sustainable. 
given the size and complexity of the issues, 
we’re partnering with others—peer companies, 
governments, ngOs, farmers, suppliers and 
consumers—to find innovative, scalable solutions. 

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DISTRIBUTION

AGRICULTURAL
COMMODITIES

WASTE

design

PACKAGING

WATER

ENERGY

Sustainability Wheel 

•	 six areas of focus. 
•	 design in sustainability upfront. 
•	 Continuously improve going forward.

Six areas of focus 

sustainability is a strategic business priority for 
Kraft foods. We focus on areas that matter 
most to our business and where we can make 
the biggest impact. Our “sustainability Wheel” 
represents our focus areas and serves as our 
framework for building sustainability into 
everything we do. We use the wheel to measure 
and reward improvement. Our six areas of focus 
are: agricultural commodities, packaging, energy, 
water, waste and transportation/distribution.

in 2006, we set aggressive five-year goals*. in 
2010, after integrating the Cadbury and lu 
businesses and looking to continuously improve 
upon our successes, we expanded our initial 
goals. for our 2011–2015 goals, we’ve added 
sustainable agriculture and transportation  
to what we’re measuring. 

By the end of 2015, using 2010 as our base 
year, we plan to*:

•	 increase sustainable sourcing** of 

agricultural commodities by 25 percent.

•	 Eliminate 50,000 metric tons (100 million 

pounds) of packaging material.

•	 reduce energy use in our manufacturing 

plants by 15 percent.

•	 reduce energy-related carbon dioxide 
emissions in our manufacturing plants  
by 15 percent. 

•	 reduce water consumption in our 

manufacturing plants by 15 percent. 

•	 reduce waste at our manufacturing  

plants by 15 percent. 

•	 reduce 80.5 million kilometers (50 million 
miles) from our transportation network.

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the more we can see and understand the 
potential impact our actions may have, the 
more effective our efforts can be. to improve 
upon what we’ve done, we seek third-party 
insight, which helps us evaluate our progress 
and determine where to improve or adjust. 

We also use environmental management 
systems in our manufacturing facilities 
worldwide. in 2010, dnV, a leading global 
registrar for isO, certified that our systems met 
the requirements of ISO 14001, the premier 
international standard for environmental 
management. isO 14001 provides a framework 
for continuous improvement within our facilities.

a key advisor is environmental Resources 
Management (eRM), an independent global 
environmental management and technical 
consulting firm. ErM has verified the 
environmental performance indicators for  
our manufacturing facilities that we report  
in the following pages.

Cadbury plants, which we acquired in 2010, 
were not included in the current isO 14001 
certification. We are revising our environmental 
management systems to provide consistent 
standards for all our facilities.

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Our growing role in driving 
sustainable agriculture 

SUSTAInABly GROWn FOR  
OUR COnSUMeRS

for Kraft foods, sustainability starts at the farm. 
sustainable agriculture promotes the long-term 
viability of crops, the preservation of fertile  
soil, the economic well-being of farmers and 
farming communities, and the health of 
ecosystems. as one of the world’s largest 
purchasers of cocoa, coffee, cashews and other 
commodities, we can influence the future of 
those crops and the communities that grow 
them. We’re partnering with other companies, 
governments and ngOs around the world to 
increase our support of sustainable farming.

the crops we buy often tell a story of family 
farming. Whether it’s coffee, cocoa, cashews  
or many of the other crops we buy, a large 
portion of them come from developing 
countries. and a variety of circumstances,  
such as political unrest, poor soil conditions, 
lack of infrastructure and more, contribute to 
the challenges faced by farmers. that’s why  
we have supported farming communities and 
sustainable agriculture programs for years. 

Buying certified commodities is a powerful 
means of promoting sustainable farming, 
supporting farmers and enabling consumers to 
make informed choices. Our goal is to increase 
sustainable sourcing of agricultural commodities 
by 25 percent by 2015. 

We’re working to help bring more products to 
market that have sustainably grown ingredients. 
in a different way, certification addresses the 
three pillars of sustainability—social, economic 
and environment—by setting standards farmers 
must meet and helping them to command a 
premium for their crops. the ultimate goals of 
these standards include decent wages, access  
to health care and education for farming 
communities; reductions in water pollution,  
soil erosion and excessive pesticide use; and 
more. smarter farming can lead to healthier 
farm communities and better quality crops. 

these Kraft foods brands have product 
lines that carry fairtrade or rainforest 
alliance certification seals. 

the Côte d’Or chocolate business 
received the 2010 rainforest alliance 
sustainable standard-setters award  
for its strong commitment to improve  
the environment and support local 
communities.

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in 2010, we continued to be the largest buyer  
of coffee from Rainforest Alliance Certified™ 
farms and the largest buyer of cocoa beans 
from Fairtrade Certified or rainforest alliance 
Certified farms. here’s how that support is 
making a difference:

•	 in 2010, our purchases of rainforest  

alliance Certified coffee helped support 
more than 430,000 farm workers and their 
families on more than 85,500 hectares 
(210,000 acres) in 12 countries in africa, 
Central america, south america and 
southeast asia.

•	 We’re helping farmers through the Cocoa 
Partnership, the £45 million ($72 million), 
10-year commitment to cocoa farmers in  
the dominican republic, ghana, india and 
indonesia launched by our Cadbury team  
in 2008. 

•	 in ghana, we’ve quadrupled the volume of 

cocoa sold under fairtrade terms, resulting  
in £2.3 million ($3.7 million) in fairtrade 
social premiums. Communities have used 
the premiums to purchase mobile health 
clinics, farm equipment, farm-skills training 
and more. 

•	 in the daloa region of Côte d’ivoire, one of 
the farm cooperatives we work with used a 
portion of its premium from selling rainforest 
alliance Certified cocoa to build a small 
health-care facility staffed by government-
assigned health professionals. for the first 
time, farmers and their families can find  
local treatment for ailments, such as malaria, 
and mothers can deliver their babies close  
to home.

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Our Canadian confectionery team 
created the Bicycle factory in 2009, 
to rally Canadians to send much-
needed bicycles to the school kids in 
our cocoa-growing communities in 
ghana to help increase their access 
to education.

the program is based on the simple 
notion that ”small purchases can make 
a big difference for people in need.” 

Each universal Product Code from 
any participating item entered at 
www.thebicyclefactory.ca turns into a 
virtual bike part. for every 100 virtual 
bike parts, one real bike gets sent  
to ghana. 

the campaign has delivered more 
than 9,000 bikes in 120 communities. 

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Other examples of partnering:

•	 in 2009, we joined the World 

economic Forum’s initiative called 
new Vision for Agriculture. the goal 
of the initiative is to define ways to 
provide food security for all in an 
environmentally sustainable way 
while generating economic growth. 

•	 We are a founding member  

and financial supporter of the  
4C Association. this coalition of 
producers, trade, industry and ngOs 
aims to help farmers lower costs, 
improve quality and efficiency, and 
gain access to markets and credit.

•	 We’ve also joined the World Cocoa 
foundation and USAId in creating  
a program called eCHOeS, which 
strengthens cocoa-growing 
communities in Côte d’ivoire and 
ghana by training young people and 
teachers in vocational agriculture. 
through EChOEs, we’ve helped 
train more than 5,200 students and 
more than 7,100 teachers. 

for more examples, see nourishing 
Our Agricultural Supply Chain.

THe POWeR OF WORKInG WITH OTHeRS

another way we support sustainable agriculture 
is by taking part in industry programs that  
boost development in commodity-producing 
communities. By collectively working with others, 
we can make a greater impact.

in early 2009, we joined industry, government 
and nongovernmental partners in two Bill & 
Melinda Gates Foundation initiatives that are 
investing $90 million over five years to advance 
sustainable production of cocoa and cashews  
in West africa. 

•	 the World Cocoa Foundation manages the 
first initiative, called the Cocoa livelihoods 
Program, and is providing $40 million in 
cash and related support to increase the 
incomes of small-scale cocoa farmers in 
Cameroon, Côte d’ivoire, ghana, liberia  
and nigeria. 

•	 deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische 

Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH manages  
the second program, the African Cashew 
Initiative, which is providing about 
$50 million in cash and other support  
to train producers in Benin, Burkina faso,  
Côte d’ivoire, ghana and Mozambique. 

By joining these gates foundation initiatives,  
we hope to help break the cycle of poverty  
for 200,000 cocoa farmers and 150,000 
cashew farmers. and the results are starting  
to materialize. in 2010, we purchased 
1,000 metric tons (2.2 million pounds) of 
cashews that were grown sustainably and 
processed in sub-saharan africa. 

CUlTIVATInG A MORe ReSPOnSIBle 
AGRICUlTURAl SUPPly CHAIn

Many crops we buy come from areas faced  
with political issues or traditions that are not in 
line with our sourcing standards. in order for us 
to source in a way that meets our standards, we 
work with others to address such concerns as:

COCOA lABOR ISSUeS  Kraft foods is involved 
in substantial efforts to address forced labor 
and the worst forms of child labor in cocoa 
farming. While we don’t own or control any 
farms, we have worked since 2001 with  
the governments of the Côte d’ivoire, ghana 
and the u.s., and our peer companies, to 
enhance education, support economic 
development and promote responsible  
labor practices.

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in france, we’re sourcing wheat in  
a more integrated way to reduce the 
environmental impact of farming. 

We’re using local and sustainably 
sourced wheat for LU biscuits.  
nearly 700 farmers follow special 
practices growing 8,000 hectares 
(20,000 acres) of wheat to limit 
their environmental impact. farmers 
have reserved parts of their fields for 
bee-friendly flowers to help support 
one million bees—encouraging 
pollination and biodiversity for  
future generations. 

PAlM OIl And deFOReSTATIOn  Palm oil is 
used in a large variety of products worldwide 
and demand is growing. that demand, 
combined with uncontrolled harvesting and 
production practices that some producers 
employ, is contributing to deforestation in  
the tropics. 

We support the goals and efforts of the 
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) 
and we buy from its members. 

Our palm oil purchases amount to less than 
0.6 percent of worldwide production. in 2010, 
we began buying GreenPalm certificates 
covering more than 25 percent of our palm oil 
purchases. greenPalm is an rsPO-endorsed 
certificate-trading program that provides 
incentives to producers whose plantations 
conform to its criteria. We also purchased 
segregated certified palm oil. using this year’s 
purchases as a guide, we expect to be able to 
cover 100 percent of our purchases once the 
supply of certified palm oil accounts for about 
one-third of the world’s total supply. We expect 
our suppliers to reach this goal by 2015. 

AnIMAl WelFARe  We understand that there  
is concern about the welfare of animals raised 
for food. We expect our facilities and those of  
our direct suppliers that handle live animals to 
meet all government regulations and industry 
standards on animal welfare. 

in the u.s., we adhere to science-based 
standards developed by trade organizations like 
the American Meat Institute, national Turkey 
Federation, United egg Producers and national 
Chicken Council. direct suppliers must 
demonstrate compliance through annual  
audits conducted by a third party. in the Eu,  
our suppliers have to comply with established 
animal welfare regulations as a condition of 
exporting goods to these countries. 

the welfare of egg-laying hens is a concern  
for some consumers and customers. this  
year in the u.s., we will purchase one million 
eggs from cage-free facilities. in the Eu,  
we are transitioning away from battery cage 
eggs in accordance with regulations banning 
the use of conventional cage systems by 2012.

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Smarter packaging 

Packaging is one of the first and last 
experiences consumers have with our products. 
that’s why we’ve taken a comprehensive 
approach to packaging—one that cuts waste, 
conserves natural resources and gives users  
a more satisfying experience.

Between 2005 and 2010, we cut nearly 
100,000 metric tons (200 million pounds) of 
packaging from our supply chain. We’re working 
to eliminate another 50,000 metric tons 
(100 million pounds) by 2015. reductions like 
the 20 percent we cut from packaging for LU 
Le Petit Ecolier biscuits in france in 2010 are 
helping us on our way.

Key to our reduction in packaging is our 
Packaging Eco-Calculator™. it’s a tool we 
invented to help our packaging developers 
create more efficient, sustainable solutions 
based on data from the u.s. Environmental 
Protection agency, the u.s. department of 
Energy and packaging industry groups. the 
Eco-Calculator figures the percentage of 

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Kenco coffee refill pouch 
97 percent less packaging 
compared to the glass jar, formerly 
the product’s sole container.

Oscar Mayer Deli Creations 
30 percent less paperboard;  
eliminating 544 metric tons 
(1.2 million pounds) of packaging.

Milka chocolate bars 
60 percent less packaging weight 
from fewer layers; saving 2,600 
metric tons (5.7 million pounds) in 
Europe and rolling out the process  
in latin america.

post-consumer recycled material in a given 
package design, along with the amount of 
energy and carbon dioxide emissions required 
to create the package. the Eco-Calculator also 
tells packaging designers how efficiently they’re 
using materials and how well their designs will  
fit our products’ physical dimensions. the tool  
is used along with other business practices,  
like economic assessments and ability to 
manufacture, in deciding a final design.

Examples of other recent packaging reductions, 
based on annual totals, include:

•	 u.S.: instant Maxwell House coffee jar 
material change—6,500 metric tons 
(14.4 million pounds).

•	 u.S.: Planters peanuts shipper reduction— 
1,225 metric tons (2.7 million pounds).

•	 Central and eastern europe, Middle east and 
Africa: Tang powdered beverage can material 
change—500 metric tons (1.1 million pounds).

•	 eu: Lacta chocolate tablets film layer 

reduction—145 metric tons (320,000 pounds).

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Besides improving the design in some of our 
packaging, we’re also using more sustainable 
materials. in north america, the majority of 
people can recycle more than 70 percent  
(by weight) of our packaging. Most is made 
from paper, a renewable material. 

for consumers, governments and trading 
partners, having a universally accepted 
definition for sustainable packaging—along  
with metrics to measure progress—is important. 
that’s why we’re co-leading The Consumer 
Goods Forum’s Global Packaging Project with  
the aim of arriving at a common definition of 
sustainable packaging and consistent metrics.

ReCyClInG  Packaging has little benefit if 
consumers don’t recycle. to increase recycling 
rates, we’re using more recycled content in 
much of our packaging and partnering with 
others on education campaigns.

in 2008 and 2009, we were the official food 
sponsor of Recyclebank®, a company that 
rewards consumers for recycling. Currently,  
our Back to Nature brand is participating in  
the Recyclebank Partners in Purpose campaign, 
which aims to educate consumers on how to 
make smarter, greener shopping choices.  
We’re also collaborating with industry packaging 
organizations in australia, Europe, latin america 
and elsewhere to boost recycling rates. 

global Packaging reduction  
Weight (Mt) Eliminated since 2005 

100,000 Mt

2005

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Our manufacturing plants account 
for 92 percent of our electrical 
consumption. By reducing electricity 
use, we save fossil fuel burned to 
generate power and the resulting 
greenhouse gases.

Reducing energy to help  
combat climate change

in light of concerns over climate change,  
we’re looking across our supply chain at  
what’s directly and indirectly under our  
control. to address our direct impacts, we 
monitor manufacturing and our transportation 
fleet. for our indirect impacts, we focus on  
our agricultural commodity purchases  
and transportation operations. applying a  
pragmatic approach allows us to concentrate  
on areas we need to understand better and 
where we can be most effective. 

from 2005 to 2010, we reduced our energy 
use by 16 percent and our energy-related 
carbon dioxide emissions by 18 percent. By 
2015, we’re aiming to reduce our energy use 
and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions  
by an additional 15 percent each. We’re  
making progress by changing our operations, 
improving facilities and training employees to 
modify their behavior. We’re also investing  
in new technologies for lighting, heating, 
refrigeration, processing and packaging. 

in addition to reducing energy  
consumption, we’re also eliminating  
our use of chlorofluorocarbons (CfCs)  
and hydrofluorocarbons (hfCs), which  
have been linked to global warming and 
deterioration of the ozone. By the end of  
2010, we met our goal to eliminate CfCs.  
and, we’re making great progress toward  
our goal to eliminate hfCs by 2020.

in 2010, we joined our fellow board members  
in supporting The Consumer Goods Forum’s 
resolutions to fight climate change by 
addressing deforestation and promoting 
sustainable refrigeration. We resolved to do our 
part in achieving the forum’s goal of assisting 
countries to achieve net-zero deforestation. 

in december 2010, we signed the Cancun 
Communiqué on Climate Change, which  
builds on the progress of the Copenhagen 
Communiqué, that we joined in 2009. like its 
predecessor, the Cancun Communiqué aligns 
directly with our view that the united nations 
climate framework agreement makes sense  
for society generally and will ultimately benefit 
our business. 

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Known as the lightcube, our 
building in Zurich is one of our most 
energy-efficient facilities. it uses less 
energy—50 percent for lighting and 
60 percent for ventilation—than 
comparably sized facilities. 

We invest in energy savings in our office 
buildings and distribution centers, too. in  
2009, our corporate headquarters campus in 
northfield, illinois, u.s., earned the energy Star 
rating from the u.s. Environmental Protection 
agency. Elsewhere, several of our buildings in 
australia, Brazil, the Philippines and switzerland 
also have strong efficiency records. 

global Manufacturing Energy Consumption 
(gj/ton) and CO2 Emissions (kg/ton)  
% Change since 2005

-16%
-18%

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

 Global manufacturing energy consumption
 CO2 emissions

FIndInG InnOVATIVe SOlUTIOnS  
FOR OUR eneRGy needS

One way we’re reducing the percentage of  
fossil fuels we consume is by tapping into 
alternate energy sources. sometimes a viable 
source exists right in our factories. for example, 
at our lowville, new York, u.s., plant, we’ve 
discovered that by treating whey, a natural 
by-product of cheese-making, in an anaerobic 
“digester,” we can produce enough methane  
to replace about 30 percent of the natural  
gas the plant uses annually. reclaiming whey 
eliminates the need for disposal, saving diesel 
fuel and carbon dioxide emissions. it also 
results in cleaner wastewater. We’re exploring 
ways to convert whey to energy across our 
dairy-products network.

at some of our plants, we’re exploring different 
ways to save energy generated from fossil fuels 
and implement innovative solutions. some 
factories are using coffee grounds to generate 
energy, while our plant in induri, india, uses 
bagasse, the waste from the local sugar 
industry. We’re reclaiming oven heat and using 
solar energy to heat water. We’re experimenting 
with wind turbines on factory roofs and 
improving control of our utilities. and we’re 
simply remembering to turn off the lights.

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Watching our water use 

a growing global population is making more 
demands on the planet’s water supply, so 
conservation is needed around the world. 

We’ve reduced water consumption in our 
manufacturing facilities by 30 percent since 
2005. With a goal to reduce water use an 
additional 15 percent by 2015, we’re reusing it, 
improving processes, maintaining equipment 
and educating employees. 

We’re working with global experts to estimate 
the amount of water used in our factories, as 
well as the “water footprint” of the ingredients 
and packaging materials we purchase and the 
water used in our factories. 

Other examples of how we’re conserving  
and reusing water around the world:

•	 at our ringwood plant in Melbourne, 
australia, we’ve installed a rainwater 
harvesting system and use the captured 
rainwater in our boilers and cooling towers. 
When we have more than we can use, we 
supply a neighboring school with water to 
irrigate its playing field. 

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looking to reduce water use at  
our Vegemite spread plant in Port 
Melbourne, australia, the team 
consolidated manufacturing 
processes and made innovative 
changes. the results: 

•	 58 percent reduction in  

water needs.

•	 52 percent decrease in energy 

consumption.

•	 More than 65 percent elimination 

of wastewater discharge.

•	 recovered and treated wastewater 
streams for use in building local 
roads, saving about one million 
liters (264,200 gallons) of potable 
water per month. 

•	 Our Puebla, Mexico, plant treats its 

wastewater on site and supplies the local 
authorities with clean water—free of charge—
for irrigating the city’s green spaces.

•	 We treat the wastewater from our Chirk, uK, 
plant on site and reuse it in boilers, cooling 
towers and other ways that do not bring the 
water into contact with food. as a result, 
we’ve reduced freshwater consumption at 
Chirk by 20 percent.

•	 at our Cieszyn, Poland, facility, we’ve reduced 
water use by 39 percent since 2005 through 
continuous improvement efforts. 

•	 We reduced water at our hemelingen, 
germany, plant in 2009 by 19 percent 
compared with the previous year through 
improvements to the cleaning process.

global Manufacturing Water 
Consumption (m3/ton)  
% Change since 2005

-30%

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

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2005

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2009

2010

sustainability

waste

Redefining waste 

we’ve reduced net waste from our 
manufacturing plants by 42 percent from  
2005 levels. by 2015, our goal is to reduce  
waste by an additional 15 percent. our  
strategy is simple: generate less waste and  
find new uses for the waste we do produce. 

solid waste generated from manufacturing 
accounts for more than 99 percent of our  
total waste. we recycle or reuse about 
90 percent of our manufacturing waste.  
in some cases, we’re using manufacturing 
by-products as energy sources.

in 2007, we launched a pilot program with 
Sonoco, a global packaging and recycling 
company, to substantially reduce waste in  
our plants. our objective: to send zero waste  
to landfills. 

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We have 26 plants in nine  
countries that have hit zero  
waste-to-landfill status.

Austria  
bludenz  
Vienna

Belgium  
Halle  
Herentals

Canada (ontario)  
east york  
mississauga  
oakville 
scarborough

France  
Cestas  
laverune  
toulouse

Germany  
berlin  
donauwörth  
elmshorn  
Fallingbostel  
Hemelingen 
Holzhafen  
lörrach

norway  
oslo

Sweden  
gavle

Switzerland  
bern

United States  
allentown, pa  
Fair lawn, nJ  
new ulm, mn  
philadelphia, pa  
suffolk, Va 

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We also send post-manufacturing waste to 
terraCycle. that post-manufacturing waste, 
combined with what the brigades collect,  
has enabled us to keep nearly 3.7 metric tons 
(8,100 pounds) of waste from 800 million 
packages from going to landfills.

WastE

these Kraft foods brands participate 
in the terraCycle™ program.

TURnInG TRASH InTO USeFUl PROdUCTS   
seventy percent of our north american 
packaging is recyclable. for the remaining 
30 percent that can’t be recycled, we’re  
working to find alternatives to address its  
end of life. One alternative is to use it a second 
time, or upcycle. in 2007, we partnered with 
TerraCycle™, a company that collects post-
consumer and post-industrial packaging and 
turns the waste into merchandise. 

the system uses collection brigades that are 
typically run out of community centers, schools 
and youth groups. Kraft foods compensates  
the collection teams for each package they 
collect and send in. 

today, Kraft foods is the largest sponsor of 
terraCycle, supporting the organization in 
argentina, Brazil, Canada, ireland, Mexico, 
sweden, the uK and the u.s. with more  
than 85,000 brigades and an estimated 
12 million people collecting waste worldwide. 

as a result of their efforts, brigades received 
approximately $1.6 million in charitable 
donations in 2010. the organizations use the 
money they receive to buy equipment and 
supplies or donate it to their charities of choice. 

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distriButiOn

Moving products more efficiently 

improving our global transportation and 
distribution network so that we move products 
and raw materials more efficiently saves truck 
fuel, cuts carbon dioxide emissions and  
reduces traffic. since 2005, improved internal 
processes, along with our collaborations with 
customers and suppliers, have eliminated 
approximately 97 million kilometers (about 
60 million road miles). By 2015, our goal  
is to eliminate another 80 million kilometers 
(50 million road miles) from our global 
transportation network.

sometimes the answer is literally right under  
our feet, as in our underground refrigerated-
storage facility built into the natural limestone 
caves at springfield, Missouri, u.s. not only  
do the naturally cool caves require 65 percent 
less energy than conventional storage facilities, 
their large size and central location enable us  
to consolidate inventory and transport our 
products to our customers more efficiently. 
that’s an annual savings of 680,000 liters 
(180,000 gallons) of fuel, 1,800 metric tons 
(4 million pounds) of carbon dioxide emissions 
and more than 1.6 million kilometers (one million 
miles) of truck travel.

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as members of the u.s. 
Environmental Protection agency’s 
smartWaysM transport Partnership, 
we’ve reduced truck idling, lowered 
our corporate speed limit and 
equipped our trucks with fuel-saving 
technology. We’ve also adopted 
other strategies that enable our 
trucking operations and those of our 
freight carriers to use less fuel and 
emit fewer greenhouse gases. 

in 2009, we were one of just five 
consumer products companies to 
earn the smartWay Excellence award.

www.epa.gov/smartway

another solution is to use alternative modes of 
transportation. By shipping wheat to our toledo, 
Ohio, u.s., facility by waterway rather than road, 
we’ve replaced 10,000 truck shipments that 
have cut nearly 2,000 metric tons (4 million 
pounds) of emissions. in Brazil, in just six 
months of shipping by water, we cut 125 truck 
shipments—390,000 kilometers (242,000 
miles) and 300 metric tons (more than 
600,000 pounds) of carbon dioxide emissions. 

the right technology makes a difference.  
We’re using the Oracle® transportation 
Management system to optimize truck 
movements and reduce “empty miles” in our 
u.s. operations. similarly, the autovlB software 
from Transportation/Warehouse Optimization 
enables us to improve payload by configuring 
loads with a mixture of heavy and light products, 
eliminating more than 9,000 truck shipments 
and 9.6 million kilometers (6 million miles). 

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BeInG MORe TRAnSPARenT  
In OUR eFFORTS

it’s important to do the right things for current 
and future generations. it’s equally important to 
show what we’re doing. that’s why we participate 
in internationally recognized indices. 

as an example, we’ve been a part of the Carbon 
disclosure Project (CdP) since 2005. from the 
beginning of our participation, we have formally 
reported scope 1 and scope 2 emissions. in 
2009, we began reporting on a portion of 
scope 3. Cadbury, which we acquired in 2010, 
had also reported to the CdP since 2005, 
appearing regularly in its leadership index.  
in 2010, we submitted a combined report to  
the CdP that included emission data from  
both legacy Cadbury and Kraft foods. Our 
carbon-emissions profile is available on the  
CdP website. 

in 2010, we were recognized for our efforts  
to reduce energy consumption and carbon 
emissions in two important ways. first, the 
Carbon disclosure Project listed us in its 2010 
Carbon disclosure leadership index for the  
first time, ranking us among the top-scoring 
10 percent of global 500 and s&P 500 
companies that report emissions to the CdP. 
We’re the only u.s.-based food company to  
be listed on the global index, which recognizes 

companies that demonstrate good internal  
data management practices for understanding 
greenhouse gas emissions, including  
energy use. 

in 2010 we were listed on the dow Jones 
Sustainability World Index for the fifth straight 
year, the dow Jones Sustainability north 
America Index for the sixth year and listed  
as a Cii leader by Maplecroft Climate 
Innovation Indexes (CII), placing us in the  
100 top-performing companies in Maplecroft’s 
benchmarking of the largest 350 u.s. companies.

Focusing on sustainability

We all have a role to play in caring for people, 
land and resources that touch our daily lives. We 
can’t do everything. But we can work to make a 
difference in the areas where we’re big and that 
are big to us. and that’s why we’ve taken a 
strategic approach to our sustainability efforts.

Our accomplishments to date are increasing 
sustainable sourcing of agricultural commodities, 
cutting packaging materials, reducing energy 
and water use, finding new productive uses for 
our waste and smarter distribution of our 
products. Every step, no matter the size, is a 
step in the right direction. Can a company do 
well by doing good? We say yes! 

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FOOD SAFety AnD QuALity:

BEttEr PraCtiCEs 
dElivEr thE BEst 
rEsults

“Make food that is safe to eat.”

Kraft foods Code of Conduct, rule 1 

Providing food and beverage choices that are 
safe is paramount to our success. it’s the core 
of our heritage and an essential part of our 
culture. Maintaining trust means offering quality 
products that people can rely on and feel good 
about serving to their family and friends. 

Setting and ensuring others  
follow high standards 

We employ a comprehensive, quality chain 
management system to ensure that our food  
is safe. it’s based on ISO 9001:2000, an 
internationally recognized family of quality 
management standards. in addition, we 
supplement the isO standards with safety and 
quality standards developed specifically for our 
business. We also work with governments and 
industry partners around the world to share 
learnings because we know that all food safety 
issues, even when they are not ours, can shake 
consumer trust. 

for example, several years ago, we announced  
a new ingredient technology that helped inhibit 
the growth of Listeria in cooked meats. to 
expedite industry knowledge and use of this 
food safety innovation, we shared the technology 
with the meat industry and published the 
information to make it widely available. 

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driven by our philosophy of 
continuous improvement, we 
regularly look at ways we can  
improve our supply chain to 
strengthen food safety. 

recently, we began a program  
to periodically screen select raw 
materials for potential chemical 
contaminants. We do this across the 
supply chain worldwide. ingredient 
samples are tested on a scheduled 
basis and analyzed by a Kraft foods-
approved lab. suppliers cannot ship 
the ingredients to our facilities until 
test results confirm that they meet 
our specifications.

similarly, in 2010, Kraft foods led an industrywide 
initiative to create and publish guidance for the 
safe production of nuts and made it available to 
nut suppliers and producers.

will visit the site. Otherwise, we may work with 
third-party auditors. in all cases, it’s critical that 
the auditors are properly trained, managed and 
adhere to a common set of criteria. 

Our quality management system helps 
employees, suppliers and distributors around the 
world understand our standards and expectations. 
We offer approximately 70 employee education 
programs, covering topics from sanitation to 
allergen control to packaging design. 

suppliers that fall short of our standards must 
take prompt, verified corrective action. if they 
don’t, we stop doing business with them until 
they raise their standards to meet our 
requirements.

as a global leader in food safety, we have  
well-defined safety and quality expectations  
for our suppliers worldwide and, before we use 
ingredients or raw materials, we have an audit 
conducted of their facilities to make sure they 
meet our supplier Quality Expectations. 

these suppliers are audited every one to three 
years thereafter by Kraft foods or third-party 
auditors, based on risk. if a supplier handles 
food at a higher risk for contamination, or if 
quality control is more challenging, our staff  

Equally as important as audits are our tools  
and programs for helping suppliers improve 
their food safety and quality systems. We hold 
“lessons-learned” sessions, offer food safety 
and quality forums, and provide on-site quality 
consultations. 

Over the last two years, we’ve hosted numerous 
supplier Quality and food safety forums covering 
asia, Central and Eastern Europe, European 
union, Middle East and africa, and north 
america. We plan to continue these sessions. 

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We’ve helped build better food 
production infrastructure in 
Kyrgyzstan and developed products 
for Benin. We’ve expanded the 
offerings at a vietnam cooking 
school for low-income consumers, 
helped to improve and extend safe 
distribution in vanuatu, and helped 
an Ecuadorian charity raise money 
by selling artisan chocolates. 

since 2001, we’ve sent more than 
175 Kraft foods scientists, engineers  
and other experts on 60 “missions” 
with the united nations volunteers 
programme. Our employees shared 
their expertise with nonprofits and 
small businesses focused on 
sustainable agriculture, food production 
and community development. 

www.unv.org

Taking action when needed 

despite our vigilance, threats to safety and 
quality may arise. When something goes wrong, 
we respond quickly. Our special situations 
Management teams—senior-level managers 
from across the company who have experience 
in handling these types of situations— 
take immediate steps to protect consumers 
when there is a food safety issue. We have an 
early-alert system and processes to fast-track 
information to our internal quality and consumer 
managers, as well as our special situations 
Management teams. through training, 
employees in our manufacturing plants know 
exactly what steps to take when issues arise.

Weighing the use of genetically 
modified ingredients 

We believe genetically modified ingredients  
can play a role in food production. We also know 
consumers worldwide have different points of 
view about genetically modified ingredients. for 
that reason, we review their opinions continually. 
in 2010, our position did not change. 

When we choose to use genetically modified 
ingredients in our products, we do so based on 
a number of factors, including:

•	 fact-based scientific consensus about safety.

•	 Consumer acceptance.

Alerting consumers to allergens 

•	 local regulatory approval for use.

some of our consumers have food allergies  
that can be quite serious. We address allergen 
concerns at critical points throughout our 
production and our supply chain. We account 
for the possible sources of major food allergens 
and identify them in common terms on  
our labels.

•	 Our own strict safety and quality criteria.

We follow all local regulatory requirements 
regarding the use and labeling of genetically 
modified ingredients. We also support 
appropriate regulation of genetically modified 
foods and ingredients to ensure the safety and 
integrity of the food supply and the protection 
of the environment. 

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We have no safety concerns with the genetically 
modified ingredients currently on the market. 
this is based on conclusions reached by a 
majority of scientists and regulatory organizations, 
including the Food and Agriculture Organization 
of the United nations, the U.S. national 
Academy of Sciences and the World Health 
Organization.

Meeting expectations every  
step of the way

People, rightly, expect safe food. By adhering  
to strict standards, acting swiftly when threats to 
safety arise and communicating with consumers 
effectively, we maintain and strengthen our 
reputation for consistently producing delicious 
foods people can trust. 

though scientists have reached consensus, 
consumers have not. for example, in the u.s., 
most consumers are not concerned about 
genetically modified foods. so we use them  
in most of our products there. But in Europe, 
where many people don’t want genetically 
modified ingredients, we don’t use them.  
in countries where we don’t use genetically 
modified ingredients, our suppliers must 
provide documentation on the origin and 
preservation of all ingredients. 

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We believe it’s important to listen 
and learn from our consumers. We 
start by providing consumers with a 
variety of channels to reach us:

•	 Contact points, including 18 major 

global contact centers, in all 
countries where our products  
are sold. 

•	 Contact details on all Kraft foods 

websites through frequently asked 
Questions (faQs) and Contact us. 

•	 social media, with nearly 

600 million fans of our various 
facebook pages with more than 
15 million twitter followers.

then, to help us respond better to 
consumer needs, our information 
analysts provide more than 1,000 
monthly and quarterly analyses of 
consumer input to all brands and 
across multiple functions in Europe, 
latin america and north america. 

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WOrKpLACe AnD CuLture:

BECOMing 
PErfOrManCE-
drivEn, valuEs-lEd

“Treat people fairly.”

Kraft foods Code of Conduct, rule 3

they invent new flavors. Make and sell our 
delicious products. Manage our company.  
and much more. Every day, our success 
depends on more than 125,000 capable, 
dedicated and diverse Kraft foods employees 
around the world. treating them well and 
providing a workplace that is safe, rewarding 
and inclusive is our proven recipe for keeping 
great people and inspiring them to do  
good things. 

Starting with safety 

We work hard to keep all of our employees  
safe and strive for zero accidents in the 
workplace. We aim to get there by addressing 
the causes of injuries and by setting clear 
expectations that employees must follow all 
safety laws and guidelines, operate equipment 
properly and never use alcohol or illegal drugs 
in the workplace.

By doing this, we’ve made good progress.  
While this 2010 report includes safety data on 
only our manufacturing facilities, by 2012, we’ll 
track and provide this data for all employees. 

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since 2005, we have reduced our lost-time 
accident rate by 32 percent in our manufacturing 
facilities. in 2010, 76 plants, including our 
Cadbury facilities, completed a full year of 
operation without a reported lost-time accident. 
that covers approximately one-third of our 
operating plants worldwide. Each facility 
received a plaque for helping fulfill our vision  
of being a “safety perfect” organization. facility 
managers made the presentations at plant-wide 
celebrations, recognizing all employees for their 
role in this achievement. 

despite our progress, we clearly have more  
work to do. tragically, there were four employee 
fatalities in 2010. two employees in Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, u.s., died due to workplace 
violence; an employee in Chicago, illinois, u.s., 
died on entering a palletizer; and an employee 
in india died due to a fall. three members of 
the public—one each in the dominican 
republic, uK and u.s.—also died as a result  
of traffic accidents while our employees were 
carrying out their duties. 

We thoroughly investigated all events to 
understand the root causes and to see if  
we needed to revise our safety policies  
and processes. this focus on continuous 
improvement is key to achieving our goal  
to keep all employees safe. 

Our safety Policy sums up our approach well: 

•	 safety and health improvements are both  

an individual and team responsibility. 

•	 Each of us must be dedicated to conducting 
all activities with the highest concern for 
employee safety and health. 

•	 Each of us should participate in a local safety 

program and actively seek to achieve an 
accident/injury-free work environment. 

to achieve these commitments, we created  
a new worldwide safety and environment 
management system in 2010. this system 
brings together the best practices from legacy 
Cadbury and Kraft foods. Our plan is to roll  
out this system across the company. 

lost-time accident reduction  
since 2005*

0.78

-32%

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

* this chart shows the number of lost-time accidents per  
100 full-time equivalent Kraft foods employees per year.

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Mixing in wellness 

We encourage and support our employees  
in having healthier lifestyles. We offer various 
health and well-being tools and resources  
in many facilities around the world—and our 
goal is to expand these efforts each year. 
though these resources may differ based on 
local and cultural needs, they generally offer 
similar elements around nutritional, physical  
and mental well-being. here are just a few  
programs employees can take advantage of: 

•	 lifestyle improvement programs, such as 
stress management, weight management 
and smoking cessation. 

•	 fitness and/or sports facilities on site, 
incentives for gym membership and 
employee sports competitions. 

•	 health screenings and exams, including 

vaccinations and flu shots. 

•	 healthier options and nutrition information  

in our cafeterias and canteens.

•	 newsletters/intranet sites that offer health 
tips and work-life and flex-time programs.

We are also an active member of the World 
economic Forum’s Workplace Wellness Alliance. 
the alliance brings together 39 multinational 
companies from around the world that are 
committed to advancing wellness in the 
workplace by improving the overall health  
and well-being of their global workforce. 

Folding in respect 

We’re building an increasingly diverse workforce 
and supplier base because we know that having 
different perspectives means better decision-
making. this approach also enables us to be 
even closer to our diverse consumers. 

at Kraft foods, to ensure everyone can 
contribute to his or her fullest potential, we  
don’t permit discrimination or harassment 
based on age, race, disability, national origin, 
religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other 
legally protected status. 

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We’re working across our company 
globally to hire, develop and retain 
more women. in 2010, 43 percent of 
our salaried employees were women 
and they made up 35 percent of our 
management team. 

aligned with our value of “being open and 
inclusive,” our global diversity and inclusion 
strategies provide direction to our employees 
worldwide. Our efforts focus on three strategic 
areas: culture, partnerships and accountability: 

Our global focus is on gender diversity.  
in the u.s., we also measure progress on  
our representation of minorities. in 2010,  
minorities accounted for 21.5 percent of  
our u.s. workforce.

•	 Our culture requires that we communicate 
openly, seek input from employees, and 
provide diversity and inclusion training for 
employees at key career stages. 

•	 Partnerships are vital to our success. 

internally, our 10 employee resource groups, 
made up of diverse employees around the 
world, help us promote and drive diversity 
and inclusion. External partnerships with 
organizations and associations that share  
our commitment to diversity and inclusion 
help us accelerate the pace of change. 

•	 finally, in diversity, as in everything else,  

we are accountable to each other to uphold 
our values. since 2009, we have linked 
diversity and inclusion to executive incentive 
compensation to increase our leaders’ 
accountability. 

Others are recognizing us for advancing and 
fostering an inclusive culture. for example,  
in 2010, DiversityInc named us one of its  
“50 Best Companies.” Working Mother 
magazine has named us one of its “100 Best 
Companies” for several years running. and in 
2010, LATINA Style magazine rated us no. 8 
on its “50 Best Companies for latinas” report—
up from no. 25 in 2009.

We’ve looked beyond our four walls too. for 
more than 25 years, Kraft foods has invested  
in supplier diversity because it’s good business 
to explore a variety of purchasing options. 
diverse suppliers have an equal opportunity  
to work with Kraft foods and its subsidiaries 
regardless of race, national origin or gender.

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supplier diversity examples in  
north america:

•	 in 2010, we began sourcing the 
majority of adhesives for north 
american products from minority-
owned Adhesive Systems, Inc., 
bringing capital investments and 
jobs to the detroit, Michigan, 
metropolitan area.

•	 We were one of the first companies 

to make a pledge to Chicago 
United’s Five Forward Initiative™, 
demonstrating our commitment  
to growing relationships with five 
local minority- and women-owned 
companies. as we’re making 
progress toward our goal, we’re 
creating a win-win for our new 
business partners and Kraft foods:

 - Cano Container Corporation,  
a hispanic-owned supplier of 
corrugated boxes to Kraft foods, 
more than doubled its warehouse 
capacity in the Chicago 
suburban area. 

 - CSMI, a minority- and women-
owned engineering and design 
consulting business in a Chicago 
suburb, more than doubled its 
sales with Kraft foods in the past 
year, which enabled the company 
to hire additional workers. 

Our supplier diversity team develops and 
executes global strategies, in line with our 
supplier diversity guidelines, to increase the  
use of minority- and women-owned businesses. 
We look to all of our suppliers for product  
and service innovations at a competitive cost,  
without compromising quality or food safety.  
We also are stepping up efforts to ensure  
our suppliers use diverse suppliers. 

to help advance our supplier diversity efforts, 
we offer a supplier registration portal for 
minority vendors certified by a third party,  
such as the national Minority Supplier 
development Council or Women’s Business 
enterprise national Council. Once registered, 
minority- and women-owned businesses receive 
notification of upcoming sourcing opportunities 
and outreach events at Kraft foods.

Everyone wins when we have a diverse  
workforce and a diverse supplier base. 

Spicing it up with  
talent development 

like building great brands, increasing the skills 
and talents of our people takes time, energy 
and expertise … but done right, great brands and 
great people deliver great value for many years. 

Our performance management program 
creates a connection between our business 
strategies, our employees’ development and  
the individual performance required for the 
company’s success. We believe people’s 
achievements are based on not only milestones 
and deliverables, but also their demonstration  
of Kraft foods’ values. We are explicit in our 
expectations of our employees and draw the 
connection to creating a performance-driven, 
values-led culture.

Kraft foods’ rigorous and consistent approach 
to all elements of performance management—
goal setting, ongoing informal and formal 
performance feedback, development planning 
and assessment—provides a strong framework 
for managers and employees as they translate 
company strategies into the work they do  
every day.

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Serving up a stronger company

Providing a safe, inclusive and rewarding 
workplace is critical for any company that hopes  
to innovate, grow and lead. in our journey toward 
a culture driven by performance and led by 
values, we’re building a stronger company and 
place to work that attracts and retains the 
thinkers, problem-solvers and doers, who will help 
define the food industry, for decades to come.

Our performance management program sets 
expectations; requires accountability; engages 
employees and managers in feedback, both 
informal and formal; and fosters development.

We’re clear about what our employees need  
to do to succeed—and we help them do it.  
Our leadership imperatives and competencies, 
functional/technical competencies and career 
models, along with Kraft foods’ values, provide 
the organization with a common language that 
describes expectations and development for 
employees. Our tools and training support the 
elements of our performance management 
process, including development planning. 

through Kraft foods’ global succession 
planning program, we develop our next 
generation of leaders by determining 
development actions that align with our 
business strategies and needs, the employees’ 
capabilities and potential career opportunities. 
Our program drives consistency in how we 
assess, develop and deploy our talent against 
the roles most critical to Kraft foods’ success. 

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Making a delicious difference is 
integral to our corporate culture  
and values. 

nearly 25,000 employees in 56 
countries, including Chairman and 
CEO irene rosenfeld, helped fight 
hunger and promote healthy 
lifestyles in their communities during 
Kraft foods’ second annual delicious 
difference Week. they planted 
community gardens, built playgrounds, 
assisted at food banks and served 
nutritious meals to people in need. 

“i love the look in people’s eyes 
when they see you helping out. it 
makes you feel good,” said sabrina 
Warner, serving at Chicago’s 
inspiration Café, which provides free 
restaurant meals to the homeless 
and low-income residents. 

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insPiring trust

“One thing is certain—when gaining a business 
advantage means violating the rules or ignoring 
our values, we don’t do it.” 

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the trust of consumers, customers, communities, 
regulators, suppliers and, of course, employees is 
something we do not take for granted. We strive 
to earn that trust every day by doing what we say 
we will do and holding ourselves accountable, 
even on the occasions when we fall short. and, 
as a public company, we have the added 
responsibility to be open and responsive to our 
approximately 80,000 shareholders worldwide. 

living up to these expectations and obligations 
is not easy. indeed, it requires detailed planning 
and hard work. that’s why we have structures, 
policies and processes to help promote the 
ethical and efficient governance of our company. 
and we have internal and external auditors to 
monitor our compliance with those policies and 
procedures. 

Starting at the top 

Our Board of directors governs Kraft foods in 
line with our Corporate Governance Guidelines. 
ten of our 11 directors are independent under 
the new York stock Exchange listing standards. 
the chief executive officer is the only  
employee director. 

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If our Code of Conduct doesn’t 
cover a specific situation, our 
employees draw on our values  
to guide them: 

We inspire trust.  
We act like owners.  
We keep it simple.  
We are open and inclusive.  
We tell it like it is.  
We lead from the head and the heart.  
We discuss. We decide. We deliver.

all Board committees consist entirely of 
independent directors. the Board has a lead 
director—an independent director who serves as 
the principal liaison between the chief executive 
officer and other independent directors—to 
increase the Board’s effectiveness, promote 
open communication among independent 
directors, provide independent Board leadership 
on behalf of shareholders and chair meetings  
of the independent directors. 

While the Board does not have a written policy 
regarding diversity, the company endeavors to 
nominate and assemble a Board composed  
of individuals with diverse views, backgrounds 
and professional experiences. for example,  
three directors are women. the representation 
of women on our Board is almost twice the 
fortune 500 average of 15.7 percent, as 
reported in 2010 by Catalyst. 

all non-employee Board members are expected 
to adhere to our Code of Business Conduct and 
ethics for non-employee directors. this Code 
addresses such issues as legal and regulatory 
compliance and conflicts of interest.

given the increased focus on executive 
compensation in recent years, in 2010, the 
Board’s human resources and Compensation 
Committee completed a thorough analysis  
of compensation practices and made several 
adjustments to Kraft foods executive 
compensation programs. starting in 2010, the 
mix of grants to senior management, including 
the named executive officers, has been 
50 percent performance shares, 25 percent 
stock options and 25 percent restricted stock. 
this mix places more emphasis on performance- 
based compensation—that is, performance 
shares and stock options.

Setting clear standards on integrity 

for employees, we developed our Code of 
Conduct as the cornerstone of our commitment 
to doing business with integrity. the Code is 
concise, clear and unequivocal, and available  
in 34 languages. By stating 10 simple and 
wide-ranging rules, the Code links our business 
performance with our core values and draws 
strict ethical boundaries. it makes plain, for 
everyone who works at Kraft foods, what we 
believe is the proper way to do business. 

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in 2009, we launched a new  
Ethics in action awards program  
to recognize employees who act  
with ethical courage and lead with 
integrity. in 2010, several employees 
received these global awards: 

•	 a customer finance analyst in the 
Philippines spoke up to protect  
the business and ensure that we 
didn’t employ an ex-colleague  
with a reputation for negligence  
and dishonesty. 

•	 a line operator in slovakia took 

responsibility for food safety and 
made the hard decision to stop 
production to avert a potentially 
serious problem. 

•	 a manager of European exports in 
switzerland displayed unwavering 
integrity when refusing to make an 
“unofficial” payment to customs 
officials. 

•	 in the u.s., a senior scientist from 
new York worked tirelessly to put 
safety and quality first, assuming a 
leading role in our response to a 
pistachio recall. 

Our Code of Conduct reflects our belief that 
ensuring compliance and integrity is a never-
ending process. We’re continually making sure 
our standards are high, expectations are clear 
and that we have the tools and processes in 
place for meeting them. We regularly perform 
assessments of key legal and compliance risks 
across our entire company. 

educating employees on ethics 

Our chief compliance officer and five regional 
compliance officers—with support from other 
members of the Compliance & integrity and 
legal groups—help employees understand  
our ethical standards. training educates 
employees worldwide about our ethics and 
compliance practices.

in 2010, exempt Kraft foods employees at all 
levels took our Code of Conduct online training 
and completed an acknowledgment form. We 
were able to include all exempt employees 
because we doubled the number of languages 
offered for the course. in late 2010, we began 
providing this course to our legacy Cadbury 
employees.

in addition, we offer in-depth courses to 
employees based on their responsibilities. 
topics include food safety, antitrust, anti-bribery 

and responsible marketing. We continuously 
measure and evaluate the effectiveness of  
our compliance and ethics programs. 

ensuring people feel safe  
to speak up

under our speaking up Policy, we expect 
employees to ask questions and raise concerns 
about business practices when they see 
something they think may be wrong. 

Employees have several avenues for speaking 
up, including their supervisors, compliance 
officers or human resources contacts. 

for times when employees are not comfortable 
speaking with any of our internal sources,  
or simply wish to remain anonymous, we offer 
external support. Consistent with applicable 
local laws, we have established a toll-free 
telephone Helpline, which is operated by  
an independent company, as well as a 
corresponding Webline, so that our employees 
can confidentially and, if they wish, anonymously 
report instances of suspected wrongdoing or 
ask questions about compliance matters. the 
helpline and Webline are available globally 
and allow employees to discuss their concerns 
in their own languages.

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anyone outside of our company who suspects 
wrongdoing by a Kraft foods employee or 
business can contact the helpline, Webline  
or our Compliance & integrity group at  
Kraft-Compliance@kraft.com.

We also encourage our employees and those 
outside our company to report concerns  
about our fiscal controls, auditing matters  
or anything else that appears to involve 
malfeasance of any kind. Please report such 
concerns to Kraft-FinancialIntegrity@kraft.com.

in addition, Kraft foods monitors public policy 
and participates in the public discussion on 
issues affecting our company. some examples 
of issues include food safety and security, 
nutrition, biotechnology, environmental 
responsibility, food labeling, marketing and 
packaging. and, when we engage with 
governments, we follow the rules and do so 
transparently. for example, we voluntarily 
publish a list of all Kraft foods’ U.S. political 
contributions in the Corporate Governance 
section of our website.

Holding ourselves and our suppliers 
to high standards

We select suppliers (including consultants and 
other service providers) around the world based, 
in part, on whether their ethical standards align 
with ours. Our guiding principle is that we will 
not expect more of our suppliers than we 
expect of ourselves. 

We created a summary of our corporate social 
responsibility expectations in three public 
statements, which are substantively consistent 
with long-standing Kraft foods’ policies: 

Kraft Foods Statement on Human Rights 

Kraft Foods Corporate Responsibility Guidelines 

Corporate Responsibility expectations  
for direct Suppliers 

Most major suppliers and customers have 
requirements regarding corporate responsibility 
expectations that have led to a proliferation of 
corporate codes of conduct and assessment 
requests. We helped create what we consider  
to be a simpler approach. 

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in november, 2010, guided by  
the objective to demonstrate the 
importance of responsible sourcing 
for the sustainability of business, 
leading companies—including  
Kraft foods—collaborated to hold  
a first-of-its-kind supplier forum  
on responsible sourcing in  
são Paulo, Brazil. 

the supplier forum included 280 
people—representatives from brand 
companies, supplier organizations 
and internationally accredited 
third-party audit agencies.

the focus of the forum was on  
the human aspect of sustainability, 
emphasizing the people in our  
value chains and in the communities 
where we operate. it was an excellent 
platform for the supplier partners to 
engage with senior business leaders 
in order to get a sense of the 
urgency and seriousness of this 
opportunity.

www.aim.be/responsible_sourcing.htm

Kraft foods is a founding member of the 
Program for responsible sourcing (AIM-
PROGReSS), sponsored by Association  
des Industries de Marque (aiM) in Europe  
and the Grocery Manufacturers Association  
in the u.s. this industry initiative allows a 
supplier to provide common information about 
corporate social responsibility performance so 
each customer can make business decisions 
independently and in accordance with its own 
corporate responsibility standards. 

to demonstrate our commitment to this 
important initiative, in 2010, Kraft foods:

•	 Completed foundational work, by assessing 
risk within our supply chain through self-
assessments and verification by data  
systems and third-party audits. 

•	 Provided critical training to a number of  

our facility managers and suppliers globally. 
topics included corporate responsibility, 
PrOgrEss, and the importance of 
assessments and audits to continuously 
improve management systems and respond 
to customers’ requests for information. 

•	 Completed PrOgrEss pilots at seven  

of our facilities. 

•	 set aggressive goals to complete self-

assessments and audits of 100 percent  
of our global locations during the next 
three years. 

•	 Worked with our suppliers to initiate 

PrOgrEss at more than 300 of their 
facilities and completed 10 suppliers’ audits. 

Adding up to trust

Of all of our assets, the public’s trust in us  
is the one we value most. Our governance 
policies, our Code of Conduct and our 
expectations of suppliers are all parts of our  
daily effort to preserve trust. like any company, 
we’ll sometimes fall short, but our standards, 
policies and systems make it plain to anyone 
who works for us, does business with us or  
buys our products: We’re working to create  
a more delicious world—every day. 

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independent assurance statement by ErM

Kraft Foods’ Creating A More Delicious World 2010 Report

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) was retained by Kraft Foods Global, Inc. to provide an independent review 
and assurance statement for Kraft Foods’ Creating A More Delicious World 2010 Report (the Report). 

Scope of Work

The assurance process was conducted in accordance with AA1000AS (2008). We were engaged to provide moderate level, 
Type 2 assurance, covering:

•	 evaluation	of	adherence	to	the	AA1000AS	(2008)	principles	of	inclusivity,	materiality	and	responsiveness	(the	Principles)	

and 

•	 the	reliability	of	specified	sustainability	performance	information.

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We	tested	the	effectiveness	of	processes	used	to	adhere	to	the	AA1000AS	Principles	through	interviews	with	selected	senior	
management at executive and functional levels and of relevant management responsible for day-to-day management of 
sustainability issues. 

ERM interviewed key individuals who were responsible for the development and implementation of Kraft Foods’ response 
to the following topics:

  Health and Well-Being  

Sustainability  

Food Safety and Quality 
Workplace and Culture

Governance and Compliance 

ERM is an independent global 
provider of environmental, 
social and corporate 
responsibility consulting and 
assurance services. Over the 
past 4 years we have worked 
with over half of the world’s 
500 largest companies,  
in addition to numerous 
governments, international 
organisations and NGOs.

In	addition,	ERM	reviewed	the	corporate	environmental	performance	indicator	(EPI)	datasets,	visited	a	sample	of	fourteen	
sites (eight North American and six international) and interviewed people at sixteen sites (one North American site and 
fifteen	international)	to	review	site	data	capture	and	reporting.	The	assurance	sites	were	selected	from	each	business	region	
to	provide	a	representative	sample	of	the	significant	contributors	to	the	six	key	EPIs	and	to	include	sites	that	were	assessed	to	
have	the	most	significant	year-on-year	changes.	The	processes	were	tested	at	site	level	by	tracking	samples	of	data	from	
input and calculation to consolidation, internal checking and reporting. 

EPI	data	were	reviewed	for	the	calendar	year	2010	from	manufacturing	plants	only	for	the	following	six	EPIs:	water	
consumption, water discharged, energy used in stationary sources, carbon dioxide emitted from stationary sources,  
solid waste generated and waste recycling rates.

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ERM’s responsibility was to express our assurance conclusions within the agreed scope. We delivered our work in 
accordance with ERM’s assurance methodology, which is based on AA1000AS, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) 
Sustainability Reporting Standards and the International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) 3000. We planned and 
performed our work to obtain all the information and explanations that we believe were necessary to provide a basis for our 
assurance conclusions as to whether the reported information and data set out in our scope of work was appropriately 
reported (moderate assurance). 

The accuracy and completeness of this information is subject to inherent limitations given their nature and methods for 
determining, calculating and estimating such data. 

ERM Conclusions

On the basis of the work undertaken, nothing came to our attention to suggest that the Report does not properly describe 
Kraft	Foods’	adherence	to	the	AA1000AS	Principles	or	its	performance.

In terms of data accuracy, nothing came to our attention to suggest that data has not been properly collated from information 
reported from manufacturing plants. We are not aware of any errors that would materially affect the data reported.

Observations

Without affecting our assurance opinion, we also provide the following observations:

Kraft Foods continues to make good progress in integrating sustainability issues into their business processes and adopting 
a life-cycle approach to sustainability issues. This life-cycle approach is being applied to determine priorities and to provide 
focus for efforts to reduce impacts associated with their suppliers, operations and products.

ERM Competence

ERM	operates	strict	conflict	of	interest	checks	and	has	confirmed	our	independence	to	work	on	this	engagement	with	Kraft	
Foods.	The	members	of	the	review	team	have	not	provided	consulting	services	to	Kraft	Foods	outside	of	the	review	of	EPI	
data and the Report. These members were not involved in the preparation of any part of the Report. The review team has the 
required combination of education, experience, training, and skills for this engagement.

Environmental Resources Management  
Chicago, USA  
June 2011

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at Kraft foods, we’re creating a more 
delicious world and we’d love to hear  
your thoughts on how we’re doing.  
Please send us an e-mail at  
deliciousWorld@Kraftfoods.com. 

www.kraftfoodscompany.com/DeliciousWorld