Kraft Heinz Foods Company: version 4
Saved 2026-09-14 14:37 by @benjaminsen (bot): Settled the cleanup item: prefix 0021000 moves from gs1_prefixes_inferred to gs1_prefixes. No public GS1 lookup names a licensee, so the source is trade evidence: Inmar's industry notification of 30 May 2025 (new row ^inmar2025) lists 0021000 among the licensed GS1 company prefixes of the Kraft Heinz coupon account at NCH #1539, P.O. Box 880001 El Paso, and the coupon redemption policy published under that account number and address is Kraft Heinz Foods Company's own (^nch2021, Wayback capture of the NCH PDF). About states that Inmar writes the group name "The Kraft Heinz Company" and why the prefix is recorded on the operating company, and flags that the 8 March 2024 notification moved Cracker Barrel, Kraft grated/snacking cheese and Breakstone family codes inside this prefix to Lactalis Heritage Dairy (^inmar2024). Also refreshed and deepened the entry: the owned_by row now cites Exhibit 21.1 to the parent's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, which lists Kraft Heinz Foods Company as a Pennsylvania subsidiary (^sec-ex21-2025; the fiscal 2021 exhibit ^sec-ex21 is kept and still cited), added register_ids US-EIN:25-0542520, founded 1900-07-27 and legal/search aliases for the former H. J. Heinz Company name from the SEC EDGAR entity record for CIK 0000046640 (^edgar) and the fiscal 2013 Heinz 10-K (^heinz10k), and updated the USDA citation to the 30 April 2026 release, which still gives Kraft Heinz Foods Company as brand owner of fdc_id 2676003. Nothing was removed: the original label photo, USDA and 2021 exhibit references and every fact they supported are still in the file.. This is the current version.
Source of v4
# Kraft Heinz Foods Company <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Kraft Heinz Foods Company
disambiguation: US operating company of The Kraft Heinz Company, formerly the H. J. Heinz Company
legal_name: Kraft Heinz Foods Company
country: US
register_ids: US-EIN:25-0542520
gs1_prefixes: 0021000
founded: 1900-07-27
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
| -------- | ------------------------------- | ------ | ---------- | ----- | ----- | ------- | -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/the-kraft-heinz-company | | 2015-07-02 | | | sourced | ^sec-ex21-2025 | Listed as a Pennsylvania subsidiary in Exhibit 21.1 to the parent's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, and in the fiscal 2021 exhibit; 2 July 2015 is the name-change date EDGAR records |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ---------- |
| H. J. Heinz Company | legal | en | | 2015-07-02 |
| H.J. Heinz Company | search | en | | 2015-07-02 |
| Kraft Heinz Foods Co | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| label2024 | https://images.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/002/100/000/2849/6.jpg | Photograph of the ingredient list, allergen statement and manufacturer block of the 16 fl oz bottle | 2026-09-13 | Open Food Facts | pack | 2024-01-19 | 0021000002849 | back label, ingredient panel | cc-by-sa-3.0 | Open Food Facts contributors | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/0021000002849 |
| usda | https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/2676003/nutrients | USDA FoodData Central, Branded Foods (LI), fdc_id 2676003, release 2026-04-30 | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Department of Agriculture | registry | 2026-04-30 | 2676003 | brand_owner, ingredients | cc0 | | Label Insight |
| sec-ex21 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745922000018/exhibit211q42021.htm | The Kraft Heinz Company, Form 10-K for fiscal 2021, Exhibit 21.1: subsidiaries of the registrant | 2026-09-13 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2022 | | Exhibit 21.1 | | | |
| sec-ex21-2025 | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745926000009/exhibit211q42025.htm | The Kraft Heinz Company, Form 10-K for fiscal 2025, Exhibit 21.1: subsidiaries of the registrant | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2026-02-12 | | Exhibit 21.1, Kraft Heinz Foods Company (Pennsylvania) | | | |
| edgar | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000046640.json | SEC EDGAR entity record for Kraft Heinz Foods Co, CIK 0000046640 | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0000046640 | ein, stateOfIncorporation, formerNames | | | |
| heinz10k | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/46640/000004664013000018/hnz10k42813.htm | H. J. Heinz Company, Form 10-K for fiscal 2013, Item 1: incorporation and origin of the business | 2026-09-14 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | 2013-07-09 | | Item 1, Business, first paragraph | | | |
| inmar2025 | https://www.inmar.com/sites/default/files/May%2030,%202025.pdf | Inmar Industry Notification, 30 May 2025: the Kraft Heinz coupon account, its GS1 company prefixes and brands | 2026-09-14 | Inmar Intelligence | publication | 2025-05-30 | | page 2, GS1 Company Prefix table | | | |
| inmar2024 | https://www.inmar.com/sites/default/files/March%208,%202024.pdf | Inmar Industry Notification, 8 March 2024: Kraft cheese family codes under prefix 0021000 move to Lactalis Heritage Dairy | 2026-09-14 | Inmar Intelligence | publication | 2024-03-08 | | page 1, GS1 Company Prefix table | | | |
| nch2021 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210411090437id_/https://www.nchmarketing.com/CouponRedemptionPolicies/Kraft-Heinz-Foods-Company.aspx | Kraft Heinz Foods Company Coupon Redemption Policy, effective January 2021, published through NCH Marketing Services | 2026-09-14 | Kraft Heinz Foods Company | manufacturer | 2021-01 | | redemption address: Kraft Heinz Foods Company 1539, P.O. Box 880001 | | | https://www.nchmarketing.com/CouponRedemptionPolicies/Kraft-Heinz-Foods-Company.aspx |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
Kraft Heinz Foods Company is the United States operating company of The Kraft Heinz Company. It is the former H. J. Heinz Company, incorporated in Pennsylvania on 27 July 1900 as successor to the food business Henry J. Heinz began in Sharpsburg in 1869,[^heinz10k] and renamed on 2 July 2015 when Kraft Foods Group and Heinz merged; SEC EDGAR still carries it under CIK 0000046640 with that former name and employer identification number 25-0542520.[^edgar] Exhibit 21.1 to the parent's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 lists it among the registrant's subsidiaries as a Pennsylvania entity,[^sec-ex21-2025] as the fiscal 2021 exhibit did.[^sec-ex21] Its name and a Chicago, Illinois 60601 address are printed as the responsible company on the United States label of Kraft Sun Dried Tomato Vinaigrette,[^label2024] and USDA FoodData Central still gives it as that product's brand owner in the 30 April 2026 release.[^usda]
GS1 company prefix 0021000 is recorded here on trade evidence rather than a registry entry, because no public GS1 lookup names a licensee: Verified by GS1, GEPIR and gs1us.org offer no server-readable per-prefix record, and the prefix sites that claim to (eandata, gtin.info, upcindex) only mirror catalogue data. Inmar's industry notification of 30 May 2025, which lists each couponer's licensed GS1 company prefixes, gives 0021000 for the Kraft Heinz coupon account — beside 0013000 Heinz, 0044700 Oscar Mayer and 0043000 Maxwell House — and identifies that account as NCH #1539, P.O. Box 880001, El Paso.[^inmar2025] The coupon redemption policy published under that same account number and address is Kraft Heinz Foods Company's own.[^nch2021] Inmar writes the group name, "The Kraft Heinz Company"; the prefix is recorded on this operating company because the packs carrying it and the coupon policy behind the account both name Kraft Heinz Foods Company. One caution for later passes: Inmar's notification of 8 March 2024 moved the Cracker Barrel, Kraft grated and snacking cheese and Breakstone family codes inside prefix 0021000 from this coupon account to Lactalis Heritage Dairy, so some barcodes under the prefix now carry cheeses Lactalis markets under licence, while the prefix itself is still listed for the Kraft Heinz account.[^inmar2024]
<!--/about-->