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Integration Program
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Integration Program

Note 7.  Integration Program

Our combination with Cadbury continues to provide meaningful synergies and cost savings. We expect to realize annual cost savings of approximately $800 million by the end of 2013. Additionally, we expect to create revenue synergies from investments in distribution, marketing and product development. In order to achieve these cost savings and synergies and combine and integrate the two businesses, we expect to incur total integration charges of approximately $1.5 billion through the end of 2013 (the “Integration Program”).

Integration Program costs include the costs associated with combining our operations with Cadbury’s and are separate from the costs related to the acquisition. We incurred charges under the Integration Program of $35 million for the three months and $78 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and $136 million for the three months and $240 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011. We recorded these charges in operations, as a part of selling, general and administrative expenses primarily within our Kraft Foods Europe and Kraft Foods Developing Markets segments, as well as within general corporate expenses. Since the inception of the Integration Program, we have incurred $1.3 billion of the $1.5 billion in expected charges.

Liability activity for the Integration Program for the six months ended June 30, 2012 was (in millions):

 

                  
               2012             

Balance at January 1, 2012

   $ 346   

Charges

     78   

Cash spent

     (111

Currency / other

     (6
  

 

 

 

Balance at June 30, 2012

   $ 307