Company Donates $150,000 to Support Families Impacted by Hurricane Gustav
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kraft Foods Inc.
(NYSE: KFT) announced today it will donate three truckloads of Kraft products,
valued at more than $150,000, to the American Red Cross to help provide relief
to victims of Hurricane Gustav.
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The hurricane struck Louisiana and Alabama this past weekend, affecting
approximately 2 million people.
'Food donations are especially important after a disaster strikes,' said
Amina Dickerson, Senior Director, Corporate Community Involvement at Kraft
Foods. 'They make an immediate positive difference in people's lives during a
time of tremendous need. The American Red Cross is doing an outstanding job
getting donations from companies, such as Kraft, to families affected by the
disaster.'
'The American Red Cross is grateful for Kraft's donation of food to
support Hurricane Gustav relief efforts,' said Jeff Towers, Chief Development
Officer at the American Red Cross. 'Kraft consistently supports Red Cross
disaster responses through financial and product donations.'
At this time, Kraft is not aware of any impact on its employees or their
homes.
Earlier this year, Kraft donated $1.3 million to help victims of various
disasters such as the Midwest flooding, China earthquake and Myanmar cyclone.
Since 2000, Kraft has contributed a total of $9.2 million in cash and products
for humanitarian aid to different locations worldwide. Over the last five
years, Kraft has donated more than $100 million in cash and $300 million worth
of food to hunger relief and healthy lifestyle projects around the world.
ABOUT KRAFT FOODS INC.
For more than a century, Kraft (http://www.kraft.com) has offered delicious
foods and beverages that fit the way consumers live. Today, we are turning the
brands that consumers have lived with for years into brands they can't live
without. Millions of times a day in more than 150 countries, consumers reach
for their favorite Kraft brands, including nine with revenues exceeding $1
billion: Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats; Philadelphia
cream cheese; Maxwell House coffee; Nabisco cookies and crackers and its Oreo
brand; Jacobs coffees; Milka chocolates; and LU biscuits. Kraft is one of
the world's largest food and beverage companies with annual revenues exceeding
$37 billion, more than 100,000 employees and more than 180 manufacturing and
processing facilities globally. The company's stock (NYSE: KFT) is listed on
the Standard & Poor's 100 and 500 indexes as well as the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index and Ethibel Sustainability Index.
SOURCE Kraft Foods Inc.
