Kraft Foods

How much would you pay for a cup of Starbucks coffee? Starbucks hopes it's a lot, because it has been hiking prices on its brewed beverages. Meanwhile, everybody else in the coffee biz seems to be doing the exact opposite.

For most of the past decade, buying Oreos or Trident gum for your kids meant sending money to the Marlboro Man. Those brands have gone their separate ways, but there are still many odd matches in the wild world of conglomerates, where companies own siblings that don't really look like one another.

Kraft Foods is recalling about 137,000 cases of Velveeta Shells & Cheese Microwaveable Cups because they might be tainted with wire-bristle pieces, the company announced Friday. The company said it has received no reports of injuries or complaints, and that it was voluntarily issuing the recall to be on the safe side.

Kraft split into two, spinning off its North American grocery business from its faster-growing international snacks business Friday. Here's what the move means for shareholders, and why it makes sense.

Kraft Foods announced Thursday plans to split into two publicly traded companies, with one concentrating on snacks while the other focuses on the North American grocery business.

As food prices continue to rise, many food companies are shrinking packages instead of raising item prices. But don't be fooled: You're definitely paying more for less.

Corporate bond sales worldwide totaled $3.19 trillion this year, as companies took advantage of the lowest yields on record.

Since 1998, Starbucks has contracted with Kraft Foods to distribute its bagged coffee through grocery stores. In letters released to The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, Kraft fired yet another salvo in its bid to hold together this deal, which Starbucks now wants to undo.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was questioned earlier in the year by U.S. regulators on why the holding company didn't write down $1.86 billion in losses largely from its investments in Kraft Foods Inc. and U.S. Bancorp during the second quarter.

The citizens of Red State America are hopping mad, and they're doing something about it: buying magazines. Titles for gun lovers, hunters, conservatives and Nascar fans were among the fastest-growing publications in the first half of 2010.