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Mondelez investors to benefit from Starbucks' compo pay-out
Dean Best | 13 November 2013
Starbucks has been ordered to pay Kraft Foods US$2.7bn in compensation for ending a deal that saw the manufacturer distribute the coffee chain's retail products - a move that is set to benefit the shareholders of Mondelez International.
In 2010, Starbucks ended a 12-year agreement that had seen Kraft ship the company's packaged coffee to US grocery outlets.
Starbucks claimed its "brand equity" had been "eroded"; Kraft insisted it had grown sales from less than US$50m in 1998 to around $500m.
Kraft filed for arbitration and yesterday it was announced Starbucks would have to pay over $2.7bn.
The arbitration was filed before Kraft's 2011 split that formed US-focused Kraft Foods Group and global snacks giant Mondelez International. As part of the contracts behind the split, the $2.7bn will go to Mondelez, which owns coffee brands including Carte Noire.
Mondelez said it intended to use the net proceeds to buy back some of its shares - boosting a share repurchase scheme worth $6bn.
Perhaps, then, the Starbucks cash could help Mondelez in any attempts temper some of the criticism of its performance and strategy from activist investor Nelson Peltz.
Sectors: Financials
Companies: Kraft Foods Group, Mondelez International
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