Jacobs Suchard: version 2
Saved 2026-09-22 22:35 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the three cleanup items. absence_prose: removed the sentence about the unreachable Swiss register record. duplicate_candidate: company/kraft-foods-schweiz-holding is a different legal entity, not merged. GLEIF gives it a creation date of 1991-06-27, after the 1990 takeover, with the previous names Colima Holding AG, Jacobs Suchard SA and Kraft Jacobs Suchard SA. About now says how the two differ. owner_unknown: added owned_by company/mondelez-international from 1990, because Wikipedia names Mondelez the legal successor of Kraft Foods Inc. / Kraft General Foods, the buyer in 1990. Also added parent_org company/altria-group (Philip Morris Companies) for 1990 to 2007-03. Rewrote the second paragraph with the Barry Callebaut, 1993, 1995 and 2012 lineage. Added References rows wiki-kraft, wiki-kjacobs and gleif-kfsh; refreshed the wiki-mdlz-de access date. Gap: I could not find the legal entity and Zurich register number of the 1982 holding Jacobs Suchard AG. North Data lists only Kraft-era Jacobs Suchard entities, and the Moneyhouse search is blocked by robots.txt, so no register_ids or dissolved date were written.. This is the current version.
Source of v2
# Jacobs Suchard <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Jacobs Suchard
disambiguation: the Zurich chocolate and coffee group of 1982-1990, not the Jacobs coffee brand sold today by JDE Peet's
summary: Swiss chocolate and coffee group in Zurich, formed by the 1982 Jacobs-Interfood merger, buyer of Côte d'Or in 1987 and itself taken over by Kraft General Foods in 1990.
country: CH
founded: 1982
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| ---------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ---- | ------- | ----- | ------- | ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/mondelez-international | | 1990 | | | sourced | ^wiki-kraft | Acquired in 1990 by Kraft General Foods, renamed Kraft Foods in 1995 and Mondelez International in 2012; Wikipedia names Mondelez International the legal successor of Kraft Foods Inc. |
| parent_org | company/altria-group | | 1990 | 2007-03 | | sourced | ^wiki-mdlz-de | Philip Morris Companies, renamed Altria Group, owned Kraft General Foods from 1989 and parted with Kraft at the end of March 2007 |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Jacobs Suchard AG | search | | | |
| Kraft Jacobs Suchard | search | | 1993 | |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | -------------------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| wiki-jacobs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobs_Suchard | Wikipedia: Jacobs (coffee), the article the title "Jacobs Suchard" redirects to | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki-mdlz-de | https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International | Wikipedia (de): Mondelez International, on the 1990 takeover of Jacobs Suchard | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki-cotedor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B4te_d%27Or_(chocolate) | Wikipedia: Côte d'Or (chocolate) | 2026-09-20 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki-kraft | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_Foods_Inc. | Wikipedia: Kraft Foods Inc., on the 1990 acquisition of Jacobs Suchard, the 1995 renaming and the 2012 split | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki-kjacobs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Johann_Jacobs | Wikipedia: Klaus Johann Jacobs | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| gleif-kfsh | https://api.gleif.org/api/v1/lei-records/549300NGID80BBP0MC57 | GLEIF LEI record: Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding GmbH, previous legal names Colima Holding AG, Jacobs Suchard SA, Kraft Jacobs Suchard SA, creation date 1991-06-27 | 2026-09-22 | GLEIF | registry | | 549300NGID80BBP0MC57 | | | | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Jacobs Suchard was the Swiss chocolate and coffee group formed in 1982, when the Bremen coffee house Jacobs, run by Klaus Johann Jacobs, merged with Interfood, the Swiss holding behind Suchard and Tobler; it had its seat in Zurich.[^wiki-jacobs][^wiki-mdlz-de] Its brands included Suchard, Milka, Toblerone and, from 1987, the Belgian chocolate Côte d'Or: it bid for Côte d'Or against Nestlé that year, took 66 % of the shares and the remainder in February 1989, which is why it is listed as the former owner on the Côte d'Or brand page here.[^wiki-cotedor] It also bought the American confectioner Brach's in 1987.[^wiki-jacobs]
Philip Morris's Kraft General Foods took over Jacobs Suchard in 1990, apart from Brach's and Interfood.[^wiki-jacobs][^wiki-kraft] With Brach's and the non-consumer businesses Klaus Jacobs kept, he built the company now known as Barry Callebaut.[^wiki-kjacobs] In 1993 Kraft General Foods Europe and Jacobs Suchard were combined as Kraft Jacobs Suchard.[^wiki-mdlz-de] Kraft General Foods took the name Kraft Foods in 1995, and in 2012 the old Kraft Foods Inc. renamed itself Mondelez International and spun off its North American grocery business as Kraft Foods Group; Mondelez International is the legal successor of Kraft Foods Inc.[^wiki-kraft] Philip Morris Companies, later Altria Group, parted with Kraft at the end of March 2007.[^wiki-mdlz-de] The group is a different company from Kraft Foods Schweiz Holding GmbH in Zug, the Mondelez holding company that was created on 27 June 1991, after the takeover, and has carried the names Colima Holding AG, Jacobs Suchard SA and Kraft Jacobs Suchard SA.[^gleif-kfsh]
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