Kraft Heinz accounts for nearly half of Europe's ketchup market and is winning over health-conscious consumers just as weight-loss drugs reshape the industry. Now it wants to replicate that success in the U.S.
Europe has become more than just a market for Kraft Heinz. The region acts as a laboratory where the company tests recipes, packaging and commercial partnerships before transferring them to the United States and other markets. The strategy is based on a less visible reality behind Heinz’s success: the American brand has adapted so well to local cultures that many European consumers do not perceive it as a foreign brand. “I thought it was British…