Source: Management and Finance Online Published by: Harvard Extension Student Journal: Vol. 2. No. 2 (July, 2019) Management and Finance Club (HESMFC) ANALYSIS OF HEINZ COMPANY’S ACQUISITION OF KRAFT FOODS GROUP INC. MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE ONLINE JOURNAL Published by Harvard Extension Student Management and Finance Club (HESMFC) HESMFC is a not-for-profit, student organization, an affiliate of Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) that serves as a platform for academic publication. The HESMFC online journal helps student researchers and scholars to publish a wide range of topics in the fields of business management and finance. Author(s): David A.J. Abrahams • URL : https://hesmfc.extension.harvard.edu/ Management and Finance Online Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, (July, 2019), Published by Harvard Extension Stude nt Management and Finance Club AANALYSISNALYSIS OF HEINZ COMPANY’S ACQUISITION OF KRAFT FOODS GROUP INC. David A.J. Abrahams Harvard Extension School, Harvard University, 51 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States Email:
[email protected] David A.J. Abrahams has a Master of Science degree in Financial Macro-Economics with a specialization in Monetary Economics from Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. ABSTRACT He is currently pursuing Master of Liberal Arts degree in the field of Management at Harvard Extension School. Currently, he is a Resolution Officer at De Nederlandsche Bank (Central Bank of The Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Previously he worked at the Boards of Financial Supervision (Curacao and Sint Maarten, This article discusses the acquisition of Kraft Foods Group Inc. by H.J. Heinz Dutch Caribbean) and both Co. to form the Kraft Heinz Company.