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At the Distribution, Altria converted all of its Class B shares of Kraft common stock into Class A shares of Kraft common stock.
Following the Distribution, we only have Class A common stock outstanding. There were 1.18 billion Class B common shares
issued and outstanding at December 31, 2006, which were held by Altria. There were no preferred shares issued and outstanding
at December 31, 2007 and 2006. At December 31, 2007, 148,912,292 shares of Common Stock were reserved for stock options
and other stock awards.
Our Board of Directors authorized the following Common Stock repurchase programs. We are not obligated to repurchase any
of our Common Stock and may suspend any program at our discretion. The total repurchases under these programs were
110.1 million shares for $3,640 million in 2007, 38.7 million shares for $1,250 million in 2006, and 39.2 million shares for
$1,200 million in 2005. We made these repurchases of our Common Stock in open market transactions.
Share Repurchase Program
authorized by the Board of Directors $5.0 billion $2.0 billion $1.5 billion
Authorized / Completed period for repurchase April 2007 -
March 2009
March 2006 -
March 2007
December 2004 -
March 2006
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased in 2007
(millions of shares)
$3.5 billion
(105.6 shares)
$140 million
(4.5 shares)
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased in 2006
(millions of shares)
$1.0 billion
(30.2 shares)
$250 million
(8.5 shares)
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased in 2005
(millions of shares)
$1.2 billion
(39.2 shares)
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased life-to-date under program
(millions of shares)
$3.5 billion
(105.6 shares)
$1.1 billion
(34.7 shares)
$1.5 billion
(49.1 shares)
Additionally, in March 2007, we repurchased 1.4 million shares of our Common Stock from Altria at a cost of $46.5 million.
We paid $32.085 per share, which was the average of the high and the low price of Kraft Common Stock as reported on the
NYSE on March 1, 2007. This repurchase was in accordance with the Distribution agreement.
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