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Nabisco is a U.S.-based manufacturer of cookies and snacks, including brands such as Chips Ahoy , Fig Newtons, Mallomars, Oreos, Ritz Crackers, Teddy Grahams, Triscuits, and Wheat Thins .The company is a subsidiary of Kraft Foods North America, which is in turn owned by the Altria Group.
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1 Merger history
Nabisco dates its founding back to the 1890s, a decade during which the bakery business underwent a major consolidation. Early in the decade, bakeries throughout the country were consolidated regionally, into companies such as
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The first use of "Nabisco" was in a sugar waferIn cooking, a wafer can refer to a crisp, sweet, very thin flat dry cake which is often used to decorate ice creams. Wafers can also be made into biscuits with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. The word also refers to the special wafers made for Ca brand first produced by National Biscuit Company in 1901. The first use of the red triangular logo was in 1952. The name of the company was not changed to Nabisco until 1971; prior to that year, the company was often referred to as N.B.C.
N.B.C. acquired the Shredded Wheat Company (maker of Triscuit and Shredded Wheat cereal) and Christie, Brown & Company of Toronto in 1928. N.B.C. acquired F.H. Bennett Company (maker of Milk-Bone dog biscuits) in 1931.
In 1981 Nabisco merged with Standard Brands, maker of Planters Nuts and separately acquires LifeSavers Candies. In 1985 Nabisco was bought by R.J. Reynolds.
In 2000 Philip Morris Companies acquires Nabisco; that acquisition was approved by the Federal Trade Commission subject to the divestiture of products in five areas: three Jell-O and Royal brands types of products (dry-mix gelatin dessert, dry-mix pudding, no-bake desserts), intense mints (such as Altoids), and baking powder.
