H.J. Heinz Company

Food and Beverage

VAULT RANKINGS 2010

#26 Vault Consumer Products 50

GENERAL INFO

Headquarters: Pittsburgh, PA
37 offices
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THE BUZZ…

Amazing how many products [are succesful with such] limited advertising.
Branded, but many problems
Americana, but outdated
Trusted name-quality and familiarity

NEWS AND UPDATES

Vault's Scoop

Uppers

Good people, opportunity for growth, always looking to improve
It's an interesting industry

Downers

Short-sighted business plans
Slow to change

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

Pour it on!

The H.J. Heinz Company owns the Ore-Ida brand of frozen French fries and other potato products, Smart Ones and (under license) Boston Market and Weight Watchers frozen dinners, Bagel Bites, Wyler’s dry soup mixes and the Classico premium tomato sauce line. The Pennsylvania-bred organization’s biggest market, surprisingly, is Europe where generations of residents have considered the Heinz brand one of their own. It opened up shop in the United Kingdom in 1886, and the product lineup sold there included “tinned” beans, soups and pasta meals. European sales ($3.41 billion in fiscal 2009, a decrease of 3.4 percent from the sales of the previous year) slightly outpaced those generated in North America. Most of the rest of the company’s revenue is almost evenly shared by sales in the Asia Pacific region and those through a U.S. food service division.

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SALARIES

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SURVEY SAYS

Positive culture

Our contacts who work at Heinz are generally positive about the corporate environment. One says he likes “the people and the daily challenges—it’s an interesting industry.” Another insider offers that the “corporate culture is fine,” but adds that “the culture across different business units, even business units in the same building, is very different.” One contact says, “I don’t feel like I need to work excessive overtime. There are times when it’s called for, but work on weekends has been extremely limited.”

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Getting Hired

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H.J.’s hires

The company’s employment page opens to a bunch of video testimonies about how it is working for and at Heinz. After listening to a few, you may look for job openings which can be searched by job title, division/affiliate, department, city, state/province, country or by various keywords. You can also take a peek at the teams you may be working for or with through Web pages about the different career paths (research & development, human resources, sales, marketing or supply chain management), complete with a worker’s testimony and a Webcast of the physical environment.

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