KRAFT FOODS EXTENDS COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE COCOA FARMING

First Mainstream Chocolate Brands Launched in Europe with Rainforest Alliance
Certified(TM) Seal; Commitment to Buy 30,000 Tons of Sustainable Cocoa Beans
by End 2012

ZURICH, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kraft Foods today announced a major
step forward in its long-standing support of sustainable cocoa farming. Based
on pioneering work started in 2005 in the Cote d'Ivoire, the company has
launched the first mainstream chocolate products in Europe to carry the
Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) seal. Additionally, it has committed to
increase current purchases of cocoa beans from Rainforest Alliance
Certified(TM) farms ten-fold by the end of 2012, to 30,000 tons.

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Beginning in France and Belgium, Cote d'Or premium dark chocolate will now
contain cocoa from farms that meet the sustainability standard of the
Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) program. Over the coming months, the
certified Cote d'Or range will be rolled out to consumers in the United
Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Canada
and the United States. It will also be made available to chocolate lovers in
Sweden, Denmark and Finland under the Marabou brand; and using the Suchard
brand in Austria and Switzerland.

The brands represent the first mainstream European chocolate to carry the
Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) seal. By the end of 2012, the company has
committed to use only cocoa beans from Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) farms
across its entire Cote d'Or and Marabou ranges, equal to some 30,000 tons of
beans.

This commitment results from a pioneering project with internationally
respected partners. Since 2005, Kraft Foods has been working with the
Rainforest Alliance, leading development organizations in Germany and the US -
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) on behalf of the
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - as well as with
the cocoa trader, Armajaro, to support sustainable cocoa production in the
Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa.

The commitment also builds on Kraft Food's experience and long-standing
collaboration with Rainforest Alliance to develop sustainable coffee growing
for use in mainstream brands - a relationship that has resulted in the company
becoming the world's leading buyer of coffee beans from Rainforest Alliance
Certified(TM) farms.

Edward Millard, Director for Sustainable Landscapes at the Rainforest
Alliance, believes that taking Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) cocoa to
mainstream brands is key to making a real difference.

"Our collaboration with Kraft Foods and grassroots groups in Cote d'Ivoire
will result in long-term, positive changes in the lives of cocoa farmers,
their families, communities and the ecosystems on which they depend," said
Millard. "Working together, we are protecting water, wildlife and soils,
while training a new generation of farmers in the economic, environmental and
social benefits of sustainable agriculture."

The public-private partnership, known as the "Market-Oriented Promotion of
Sustainable Certified Cocoa Production" project, has enabled six Ivorian
cooperatives, representing over 2000 farmers in the Daloa/Issia and Abengourou
areas, to gain the Rainforest Alliance Certified(TM) seal. The results have
been encouraging. The last crop year alone witnessed improved yields and
significant productivity gains, in some cases above 50%. The incidence of
cocoa 'black pod' disease was also reduced by one third and farmer incomes
have improved.

"This is very good news for all involved," explained Carsten Schmitz-Hoffmann,
responsible for social and ecological standards at the GTZ, a key partner in
the project. "GTZ sees Kraft Foods as an industry pioneer enabling us to
advance our work in support of sustainable cocoa and coffee farming practices.
We are particularly excited that sustainably-produced Ivorian cocoa is now
available in an outstanding brand like Cote d'Or."

According to Schmitz-Hoffmann, it is important for cocoa farmers to improve
their incomes by introducing better agricultural practices, improving selling
methods and ensuring that the certified cocoa they produce has broader appeal
beyond niche markets.

Pascal Bourdin, Senior Vice President of Kraft Foods and General Manager of
its European chocolate business, agrees and believes that sustainably farmed
cocoa will provide high quality cocoa beans over the long term.

"Cote d'Or and Marabou are two of our premium chocolate brands. By using
sustainably grown Ivorian cocoa, we can continue to offer the most intense
chocolate pleasure to our consumers while improving the lives of cocoa farmers
and helping secure high quality cocoa for the longer term."

Bourdin underlines that this latest initiative represents only one step in
Kraft Foods' broader sustainability commitment. The company intends to
continue its efforts to encourage sustainable cocoa farming, working
individually in cocoa producing regions as well as with others as part of
broader initiatives such as those led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
and the World Cocoa Foundation.

"I believe we've made a great start. My dream is to see every piece of
chocolate worldwide made with cocoa from certified farms," says Bourdin.

About Kraft Foods
Kraft Foods (www.kraftfoodscompany.com) makes today delicious in 150 countries
around the globe. Our 100,000 employees work tirelessly to make delicious
foods consumers can feel good about. With global powerhouse brands like Oreo
and LU biscuits, Philadelphia cream cheeses, Jacobs and Carte Noire coffees,
Tang powdered beverages and Milka, Cote d'Or and Toblerone chocolates, we
deliver millions of smiles every day. Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) is the world's
second largest food company with annual revenues of $42 billion. The company
is a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500, the
Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the Ethibel Sustainability Index.

For further information about the public-private partnership, visit
www.certified-cocoa.com. Other related links: www.rainforest-alliance.org;
www.gtz.de/en; www.worldcocoafoundation.org

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SOURCE Kraft Foods

Sabine Peters-Halfbrodt, +41/(0)58/4404285, SPeters-Halfbrodt@krafteurope.com,
or Richard Buino, +1-847-646-4538, news@kraft.com, both of Kraft Foods