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Kraft Foods Inc., which is splitting its business into two publicly traded companies, has named Chairman and CEO Irene Rosenfeld to head the global snacks company after the breakup.

Kraft Foods Inc. intends to separate into two publicly traded companies by separating its North American grocery business from its global snacks operations, becoming the latest big corporation to announce plans to split.

In light of the economic downturn, consumers have been scaling back on food that's actually good for them.

Sales of potato chips and other quick-payoff snacks are way up, and even though people are cooking at home rather than dining out to save money, what they're preparing in the kitchen is more ...

An explosion that killed three workers at a North Carolina Slim Jim plant was caused by a natural gas leak that ignited in a room housing vacuum pumps for sealing the snacks, authorities said Saturday.