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Companies Inc. today announced that Michael A. Miles, 50, has been elected to the board of directors of Philip Morris Companies Inc. and named chairman and chief executive officer of Kraft General Foods. Mr. Miles was also elected a vice chairman of Philip Morris. With this addition, the Philip Morris board increases from 21 to 22 directors.
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- Named Organization
- Carnegie Mellon University
- General Foods
- Kellogg (Cereal Company)
- Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Kraft General Foods Canada
- Kraft General Foods Inc. (A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994)
A unit of Philip Morris, circa 1994- Kraft General Foods International
- Lake Forest College
- Leo Burnett (Advertising/PR)
Defense- Miller Brewing Co. (Subsidiary of Philip Morris Co.)
Subsidiary of Philip Morris Co.- Mission Viejo
- Northwestern University
- Oscar Mayer
- Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)
Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.- Philip Morris Companies Inc. (Parent company of Philip Morris USA, Kraft, Miller)
America's seventh-largest industrial enterprise in 1993, owns Kraft, Miller Brewing, General Foods, and more.- Philip Morris Credit Corporation
- Philip Morris Incorporated (Philip Morris U.S.A.) (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Co., Inc.)
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Co., Inc.- Philip Morris International Inc. (A subsidiary of Philip Morris Cos (1994))
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Philip Morris Companies in 1994 - General Foods
- Named Person
- Miles, Michael A.
- Richman, John M.
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- 16 Mar 2005
- Box
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PHILIP MORRIS
COMPANIES INC,
120 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017
Contact:
Nicholas M. Rolli
(212) 880-3460
FOR IMMEDIRTE REI~ASE
December 20, 1989
MICW~T. A. MILES ELECTED TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AND VICE CHAIRMAN OF PHILIP MORRIS COMPA~,IES INC_~.
New York, New ~ork, December 20, 1989 -- Philip Morris
Companies Inc. today announced that Michael A. Miles, 50,
has been elected to the board of directors of Philip Morris
Companies Inc. and named chairman and chief executive
officer of Kraft General Foods. Mr. Miles was also elected
a vice chairman of Philip Morris. With this addition, the
Philip Morris board increases from 21 to 22 directors.
Mr. Miles succeeds John M. Richman, who had previously
announced his retirement. Prior to his current position, Mr.
Miles had been president and chief executive officer of
Kraft General Foods. He joined Kraft, Inc. as president and
chief operating officer in 1982.
Mr. Miles came to Kraft from Heublein, Inc., where he
was senior vice president of foods and chairman of Kentucky
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Fried Chicken Corporation (KFC) worldwide. Mr. Miles joined
Heublein in 1971 as senior vice president of marketing for
its Kentucky Fried Chicken subsidiary. From 1972 to 1975 he
was vice president and general manager of the grocery
products group, and in 1976 and 1977 served as group vice
president of Heublein's International Operations. He was
named chairman of KFC in 1977 and senior vice president for
all food operations in 1980. For i0 years preceding his
employment at Heublein, Mr. Miles was with Leo Burnett Co.,
a Chicago-based advertising agency.
Mr. Miles is a director of First Chicago Corporation
and Capital Holding Corporation. He is a trustee of Lake
Forest College, a member of the advisory council of J.L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern
University, and serves on the business advisory council for
Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Miles is a director of
National Junior Achievement in Chicago, and The Lyric Opera
of Chicago.
Mr. Miles earned a bachelor's degree in 1961 from
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where
he majored in advertising.
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Philip Morris Companies Inc. has five principal
operating companies: Philip Morris Incorporated (Philip
Morris U.S.A.), Philip Morris International Inc., Kraft
General Foods, Miller Brewing Company, and Philip Morris
Credit Corporation.
Kraft General Foods has seven operating units: General
Foods USA, Kraft USA, Kraft General Foods International,
Kraft General Foods Canada, Oscar Mayer Foods, Kraft General
Foods Frozen Products, and Kraft General Foods Commercial
Products.
Philip Morris Credit corporation is engaged in
financial service activities. Its subsidiary, Mission Viejo
Realty Group Inc. is a land development company in Southern
California and Colorado.
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