What is Mondelez?
Global snacking company behind Oreo, Ritz, LU, Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Clif Bar, Tate's Bake Shop, and other biscuit, chocolate, gum, candy, and baked-snack brands.
- Category
- Global snacking
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL
- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 91,000
- Total funding
- Public spin-off; no VC funding
- Status
- Nasdaq: MDLZ; large-cap public company
What is Mondelez?
Mondelez International is a global snacking company operating in more than 150 countries. Its brands include Oreo, Ritz, LU, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka, Toblerone, Clif Bar, and Tate's Bake Shop.
Mondelez was created in 2012 when Kraft Foods Inc. spun off its North American grocery business and changed its name to Mondelez International. The remaining company became a global snacks platform centered on biscuits, baked snacks, chocolate, gum, candy, and adjacent snacking categories.
For 2025, Mondelez reported approximately $38.5 billion of net revenue. Its portfolio spans both global power brands and strong local brands, giving it meaningful scale in biscuits and chocolate while also exposing it to cocoa, packaging, currency, retailer, and emerging-market dynamics.
The company competes through brand equity, retail distribution, category management, pricing, supply chain, acquisitions, and local market execution. For sellers, Mondelez is a large enterprise buyer with clear opportunities around manufacturing, procurement, cocoa and commodity management, sustainability, digital commerce, revenue growth management, data, and marketing effectiveness.
What does Mondelez offer?
Mondelez offers biscuits, baked snacks, chocolate, candy, gum, bars, and other packaged snack brands sold through global retail and e-commerce channels.
- Oreo· Biscuits
- Ritz and LU· Biscuits and crackers
- Cadbury Dairy Milk· Chocolate
- Milka and Toblerone· Chocolate
- Clif Bar· Bars
- Tate's Bake Shop· Baked snacks
- Gum and candy brands· Confectionery
- Global and local snacks· Portfolio
How does Mondelez make money?
Mondelez makes money by manufacturing, marketing, distributing, and selling branded snacks through retailers, distributors, wholesalers, e-commerce, and away-from-home channels.
Mondelez's revenue comes from packaged snack sales rather than software-style price tiers. Consumer prices vary by brand, package size, country, retailer, channel, promotion, currency, and commodity environment, so the company does not publish a single global price list.
In 2025, net revenue was approximately $38.5 billion, with pricing helping offset cocoa and cost pressures while volume/mix remained an important investor focus. The model depends on brand strength, retailer relationships, manufacturing productivity, category growth, emerging-market expansion, and disciplined trade spending.
Growth comes from pricing, innovation, premiumization, distribution expansion, e-commerce, acquisitions, and local-market execution. Margins are especially sensitive to cocoa, dairy, sugar, packaging, labor, energy, logistics, and currency, which makes procurement and productivity a major part of the operating model.
Who leads Mondelez?
Mondelez is led by Chair and CEO Dirk Van de Put. In June 2026 the company announced Amit Banati as incoming CFO effective July 1, 2026, while Luca Zaramella continues as COO.
- Dirk Van de PutChairman and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2017; Chair since 2018Leads the global snacking strategy and portfolio transformation.
- Luca ZaramellaExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating OfficerCOO role continuing after July 2026 CFO transitionFocuses on commercial operations, regions, corporate sales, marketing, and supply chain.
- Amit BanatiIncoming Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerCFO effective July 1, 2026Former Kenvue and Kellanova/Kellogg finance leader appointed to join the leadership team.
- Laura SteinExecutive Vice President, Corporate and Legal Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate SecretaryExecutive leadership teamRelevant for legal, compliance, governance, and corporate affairs.
- Stephanie LilakExecutive Vice President and Chief People OfficerExecutive leadership teamLeads people, HR, and workforce strategy.
How do you contact Mondelez's leadership?
Mondelez publishes investor, shareholder, media, consumer, and contact-form channels, but it does not publish a verified personal executive email format. Use official contact pages and do not treat guessed personal emails as verified.
Personal executive email format not verified; use Mondelez investor/media/contact routesHow much funding has Mondelez raised?
Mondelez is not a venture-backed company; its capital history is the 2012 Kraft Foods spin-off and name change, Nasdaq trading as MDLZ, debt markets, cash flow, acquisitions, dividends, and share repurchases.
Mondelez's public-company history began in its current form on October 1, 2012, when Kraft Foods completed the spin-off of Kraft Foods Group and changed its name to Mondelez International. MDLZ then began trading on Nasdaq on October 2, 2012.
The modern capital story is public equity, debt access, commodity hedging, cash generation, acquisitions, divestitures, dividends, and buybacks, not private funding rounds. In 2025, Mondelez generated approximately $38.5 billion in net revenue and described capital returns and cash-flow management in investor materials.
Seller signal: Mondelez has budget capacity but buying is tied to brand growth, margin recovery, manufacturing productivity, procurement, supply resilience, retailer execution, sustainability, and data. Cocoa volatility makes cost, forecasting, sourcing, and productivity pitches especially relevant.
How did Mondelez get here?
Mondelez became a standalone global snacking company after the 2012 Kraft Foods separation and then expanded through brands, acquisitions, and global category focus.
- 2012Kraft Foods spin-offKraft Foods Group was spun off and Kraft Foods Inc. changed its name to Mondelez International.
- 2012MDLZ trading beginsMondelez common stock began trading on Nasdaq under MDLZ.
- 2017Dirk Van de Put becomes CEOVan de Put became CEO and later chair.
- 2022Clif Bar acquisitionMondelez expanded its snack-bar portfolio.
- 2025$38.5B net revenueThe company reported approximately $38.5 billion of net revenue.
- 2026CFO transition announcedAmit Banati was appointed incoming CFO effective July 1, 2026.
Who are Mondelez's competitors?
Mondelez competes with global snack, confectionery, biscuit, chocolate, packaged-food, and private-label companies.
- PepsiCoGlobal food and beverage company with massive salty-snack scale through Frito-Lay.
- MarsPrivately held confectionery, snacking, food, and pet-care company with large chocolate brands.
- NestleGlobal food company competing in chocolate, coffee, nutrition, and packaged foods.
- HersheyNorth America-heavy chocolate and snacking company with strong U.S. confectionery share.
- KellanovaSnacking and cereal company with Pringles, Cheez-It, Pop-Tarts, and global retail reach.
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