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Heinz

FMCG & Brands 45 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-08 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 329 /1000 D Tier D - Moderate
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 3.20 Economic ↗ 3.50 Political ↗ 3.50
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Key Findings

  • Economic: Heinz is marketed and distributed in Israel through a documented relationship with Diplomat, while Kraft Heinz’s filings list four Israel-incorporated subsidiaries whose functions and operating status are undisclosed.1, 2
  • Digital: Kraft Heinz uses Legit Security for defensive software-supply-chain security; Legit’s founders are identified as former Unit 8200 personnel, but the evidence does not establish an Israeli state, military, or intelligence customer relationship for Kraft Heinz.3, 4
  • Political: Heinz maintains official Hebrew Israel-market product pages and a current distributor relationship. These support the Business-as-Usual assessment; Diplomat’s independent reservist support is not a governing Heinz financing finding.1, 5, 6, 7
  • Evidence limits: The reviewed IDF Food Array page does not name Heinz/Kraft Heinz as a supplier. The subsidiary exhibit identifies Israeli incorporation without identifying operations or a settlement footprint.8, 2

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameHeinz (brand of The Kraft Heinz Company)
JurisdictionThe Kraft Heinz Company is a Delaware corporation.9
HeadquartersPrincipal executive offices: One PPG Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.9
SectorBranded consumer food products, including ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sauces, and beans in the documented Israeli product range.10
OwnershipThe Kraft Heinz Company common stock trades on Nasdaq under KHC; Berkshire Hathaway reported holding approximately 27.5% of common stock as of 31 December 2025.9, 11
Key Executives / GovernanceSteve Cahillane is Director and Chief Executive Officer; John T. Cahill is Chair. The current board page also lists Humberto P. Alfonso, L. Kevin Cox, Lori Dickerson Fouché, Diane Gherson, Mary Lou Kelley, Elio Leoni Sceti, Tony Palmer, and John C. Pope as directors.12, 13
Israeli-Nexus SummaryThe documented nexus includes Israeli consumer-market distribution, an Israel seed-dealer listing, Hebrew-language product pages, Israeli-incorporated group subsidiaries, and the parent group’s Legit Security procurement.1, 2, 5, 14, 3

Key Facts:

Executive Summary

Heinz’s documented Israel nexus is commercial and corporate rather than military. Heinz is a brand within The Kraft Heinz Company, which sells through its own sales organisations and independent brokers, agents, and distributors. Diplomat’s heritage materials record exclusive Heinz distribution beginning in 2005, and its current Israeli vendor page identifies Kraft Heinz as a vendor and Heinz as a portfolio brand. Heinz also maintains Hebrew-language Israel-market product pages.1, 9, 15, 5

The strongest documented economic indicators are the current distributor/vendor relationship, the HeinzSeed dealer listing for Green 2000 / Agricultural Equipment & Know-How Ltd. in Kfar Vitkin, and the continued listing of four Israel-incorporated subsidiaries in Kraft Heinz’s fiscal-2025 exhibit. These records establish commercial links and corporate entities, but do not establish the subsidiaries’ functions, ownership percentages, revenue, facilities, workforce, settlement nexus, or direct connection between the seed-dealer listing and Israeli Heinz product sales.1, 2, 14

The principal digital record is Kraft Heinz’s adoption of Legit Security for defensive application-security and software-supply-chain-security work. Legit identifies its founders as former Unit 8200 personnel. That fact supports an Israeli-origin technology linkage at group level, but the customer materials describe defensive internal security and do not establish a relationship with the Israeli state, military, or intelligence services. Kraft Heinz’s other disclosed technology relationships concern cloud, analytics, supply-chain, sales, consumer-engagement, and product-development functions.3, 4, 16

The reviewed IDF Food Array page does not name Heinz/Kraft Heinz, while Diplomat’s vendor page establishes a civilian commercial relationship without identifying military customers. Kraft Heinz’s disclosed Microsoft and Google engagements describe internal commercial technology uses, without identifying Israeli state-security customers or Nimbus participation.8, 1, 17, 16 Diplomat’s reported support for its own reserve-duty employees and unspecified wartime product donations are relevant partner conduct, but do not demonstrate Heinz/Kraft Heinz direction, financing, or recipient selection.7

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, Heinz receives a BRS of 329, Tier D (Moderate Complicity). The governing findings are sustained direct trade, group-level procurement and deployment of Legit Security, and Heinz’s own Israel-market communications. Diplomat’s reservist support and uncharacterised subsidiary incorporation do not drive the score; the military domain remains zero on the reviewed record.1, 3, 5, 7, 2, 8

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
2005Diplomat’s heritage timeline records “Exclusive distribution of Heinz.”15
July 2005Globes reported that Heinz Israel planned to sell Heinz Foodline Marketing Ltd., marketer of Heinz ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard, to Diplomat Cosmetics; the report is a commercial-distribution lead, not a defence-contract record.18
July 2015In the corporate transaction described by Kraft Heinz, H. J. Heinz Company became Kraft Heinz Foods Company and the relevant holding-company merger entity became The Kraft Heinz Company.9
2019Diplomat’s culinary catalogue listed Heinz-branded mayonnaise, vinegars, and sauces with product codes and pack sizes.19
February 2022Kraft Heinz announced a multi-year Google partnership covering Google Cloud data, analytics, AI/ML tools, Google Ads, and its Kraft-O-Matic data platform.16
2022Kraft Heinz designated Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform and announced migration plans for most global data-centre assets and its ERP environment to SAP on Azure.17
After 7 October 2023Diplomat reported support for its own reserve-duty employees and families, operational continuity with customers and vendors, and donations of thousands of products to unspecified groups affected by the war.7
27 December 2025Kraft Heinz’s fiscal-2025 subsidiary exhibit listed Heinz Israel Limited, HZ.I.L. Ltd., RINC Ltd., and TNCOR Ltd. as Israel-jurisdiction subsidiaries.2
31 December 2025Carlos Abrams-Rivera ceased serving as Kraft Heinz CEO and director; the 2026 proxy identifies Steve Cahillane as Director and CEO.12

Corporate Overview

Heinz is a brand within The Kraft Heinz Company’s consolidated corporate group. Kraft Heinz’s filings state that it consolidates controlled subsidiaries, and identify Kraft Heinz Foods Company as a wholly owned operating subsidiary. The relevant 2015 transaction converted the former H. J. Heinz Company into Kraft Heinz Foods Company.9, 20

Kraft Heinz’s fiscal-2025 subsidiary exhibit identifies Heinz Israel Limited, HZ.I.L. Ltd., RINC Ltd., and TNCOR Ltd. as incorporated or organised in Israel. The filing establishes their inclusion and jurisdiction, but not their activities, sites, staff, revenue, data roles, ownership percentages, or whether they are active operating companies, dormant holding entities, tax vehicles, or another corporate structure.2

The public record supports a long-running distribution relationship with Diplomat in Israel. Diplomat’s current vendor page identifies Kraft Heinz as a vendor and Heinz as a brand; its heritage timeline records historical exclusive distribution. The available materials do not establish current exclusivity, importer-of-record status, product scope, volumes, commercial terms, or particular retail destinations. Diplomat describes its own Israeli operation as an FMCG sales-and-distribution business with a 30,000-square-metre Airport City distribution centre, but does not identify that facility as Kraft Heinz-owned.1, 21, 15

The subsidiary exhibit does not identify factories, offices, warehouses, R&D facilities or other physical operations. The reviewed product and distributor pages do not establish a Heinz-owned site or a specific settlement destination; the distributor’s Airport City centre is described as Diplomat’s facility.2, 1, 5, 21

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

The reviewed vendor listing and historical distribution report document a commercial channel without identifying a Heinz/Kraft Heinz military contract or customer. The IDF’s public Food Array page describes food procurement and food-service operations, but does not name Heinz or Kraft Heinz as a supplier.1, 18, 8

The Israeli Competition Authority’s product description concerns ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, vinegar, sauces and beans; it does not identify military specifications or security end users. The reviewed distributor and Food Array pages do not supply a Heinz-specific military procurement or base-services channel.10, 1, 8

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that the documented relationship is civilian consumer-goods distribution. Diplomat’s vendor page establishes a commercial relationship, but does not identify IDF bases, military customers, Food Array contracts, or a military-product channel.1 The evidence cannot establish whether individual Heinz products might reach military consumers through unaffiliated resale or downstream retail channels; that possibility is not evidence of a company contract or intentional military supply.1, 8

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Kraft Heinz’s disclosed digital estate includes Azure, Google Cloud, EY-supported applications, analytics, AI/ML, supply-chain controls, sales applications, consumer insights, and personalised marketing.16, 17, 22 Legit Security identifies Kraft Heinz as a customer. Its Kraft Heinz CISO webinar describes hardening SDLC systems, continuing real-time visibility, cross-functional adoption and a more mature application-security programme.23, 3

Legit identifies co-founders Roni Fuchs, Liav Caspi, and Lior Barak as former Unit 8200 personnel.4 The score reflects Kraft Heinz’s documented procurement and deployment of this technology under the Soft Dual-Use Procurement rubric. The public customer material concerns defensive application and software-supply-chain security. It does not establish an Israeli state, military, intelligence, or surveillance relationship for Kraft Heinz.3, 4

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The cited cloud announcements and customer material concern internal commercial applications, while the Legit webinar concerns defensive SDLC security. They do not document facial recognition, policing, Israeli state-security technology provision or participation by Kraft Heinz in Project Nimbus.16, 17, 22, 3 The disclosed cloud materials do not identify cloud regions, backup locations, routing architecture, Israel-based data centres, Israeli legal access, or data-residency arrangements.16, 17, 22

The evidence is group-level and does not isolate which individual Kraft Heinz brands or applications use Legit, disclose the contract value, or establish the deployment’s precise start or end date.3

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Diplomat’s current Israeli vendor page identifies Kraft Heinz and Heinz; its heritage timeline records exclusive Heinz distribution from 2005. Heinz’s Israel-market product page confirms a Hebrew-language consumer-facing product presence.1, 15, 5 Kraft Heinz’s HeinzSeed page lists Green 2000 / Agricultural Equipment & Know-How Ltd. in Kfar Vitkin as its Israel dealer.14

Kraft Heinz’s fiscal-2025 exhibit lists four Israel-incorporated subsidiaries: Heinz Israel Limited, HZ.I.L. Ltd., RINC Ltd., and TNCOR Ltd.2 This is a documented corporate-economic connection, but it does not disclose the entities’ actual commercial functions or scale.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The dealer listing does not disclose seed varieties, contract terms, volumes, crop destinations, or a link to Heinz products sold in Israel.14 The Diplomat sources do not establish current exclusivity, importer-of-record status, sales volumes, product scope, or the agreement’s terms.1, 15

The reviewed seed-dealer listing does not establish procurement from Israeli agricultural exporters or a crop destination. The subsidiary exhibit supplies no factory or territorial operating detail. The Hebrew ketchup page does not state a manufacturing location, so it cannot establish Israeli or settlement origin.14, 2, 5

Berkshire Hathaway’s approximately 27.5% Kraft Heinz stake and its IMC/ISCAR Israeli manufacturing footprint are an in-scope owner/portfolio economic link. Berkshire reports approximately USD 4.1 billion of IMC revenue in 2025 and a large portion of its manufacturing in Israel; ISCAR identifies its headquarters and central manufacturing facilities in Tefen. The sources do not identify Kraft Heinz as IMC’s owner, operator or customer. The adjudicated review considers this indirect ownership link with its structural distance; sustained direct distribution remains the governing economic finding.11, 24

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

Heinz’s official Hebrew Israel-market product pages and maintained distributor relationship constitute the governing Business-as-Usual finding. The product pages are consumer-facing marketing rather than a geopolitical partnership or conflict-specific statement.5, 6, 1

Diplomat reported that more than 80 employees, about 10% of its Israeli workforce, were called to reserve duty after 7 October 2023. It stated that it supported those employees and families, maintained continuity with customers and vendors, and coordinated donations of thousands of products to unspecified groups affected by the war.7 This is verified conduct by Diplomat, a documented commercial partner, rather than evidence that Heinz or Kraft Heinz funded, directed, or selected recipients.

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Diplomat’s support to its reserve-duty employees and families is specifically described; the recipients of its separate products donation are unspecified. The ESG report does not establish Heinz funding or direction of either activity. The historical record of exclusivity in 2005 does not establish current exclusivity during that support. The reviewed sources therefore do not support elevating Heinz’s score to an exclusive-partner military-financing finding.7, 15, 1

The reviewed subsidiary and market pages do not identify settlement operations or territory-level sales destinations.2, 1, 5 The reviewed OHCHR materials’ lack of a Heinz/Kraft Heinz mention is document-scoped and does not establish absence from every possible settlement-related activity.25

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital3.207.009.003.20
Economic3.507.007.503.50
Political3.507.009.003.50

V_MAX is 3.50, shared by sustained direct distribution in Economic and Heinz’s own Business-as-Usual market communications in Political. Digital is 3.20 for documented Legit procurement and deployment. Diplomat’s reserve-duty support is contextual partner conduct, not the governing political score driver. The subsidiary exhibit is not treated as proof of active physical operations.1, 15, 5, 6, 3, 2

V6.5 is scale-free and evidence-only: it records activity type, documented scale, and directness, with fixed human-vetted values rather than an inference from brand visibility or allegations.

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.diplomat-global.com/israel/vendor/kraft-heinz-israel/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25 ↩26 ↩27

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745926000009/exhibit211q42025.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  3. https://info.legitsecurity.com/fortune-500-ciso-insights-our-fast-track-to-software-supply-chain-security ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  4. https://www.legitsecurity.com/about-us ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.heinz.com/he-IL/products/05000157085177-%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A4 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  6. https://www.heinz.com/he-IL/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/05000157076403-seriously-good-light-mayonnaise ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://www.diplomat-global.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ESG-eng-v13.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  8. https://www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%9A-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%95%D7%9F/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745926000009/khc-20251227.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  10. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/legalinfo/9221/he/mergers_file_17032013b.pdf ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000119312526083899/brka-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000119312526141397/khc-20260402.htm ↩ ↩2

  13. https://ir.kraftheinzcompany.com/corporate-governance/board-of-directors ↩

  14. https://www.kraftheinz.com/heinzseed/dealers ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  15. https://www.diplomat-global.com/our-heritage/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  16. https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2022-02-18-Kraft-Heinz-Partners-with-Google-to-Accelerate-and-Scale-Ambitious-Digital-Transformation-and-Sustainable-Innovation-Agenda ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  17. https://news.kraftheinzcompany.com/press-releases-details/2022/Kraft-Heinz-and-Microsoft-join-forces-to-accelerate-supply-chain-innovation-as-part-of-broader-digital-transformation-/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  18. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-938663 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://www.diplomat-global.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/12074_Diplomat_Culinary_Catalog_2019_PRINT.pdf ↩

  20. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637459/000163745925000011/khc-20241228.htm ↩

  21. https://www.diplomat-global.com/israel/about-us/ ↩ ↩2

  22. https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1657967450160676822-kraftheinzcompany-consumer-goods-azure-en-united-states ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://www.legitsecurity.com/customers/customer-testimonials-kraft-heinz ↩

  24. https://www.iscar.com/en-uk/contact-iscar/headquarters ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  25. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩