Kraft Boosts Ad Spending

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CHICAGO Kraft Foods will spend an additional $200 million on domestic marketing through the remainder of the year in an effort to improve its sagging sales, according to executives from the company. That increase includes an extra $60 million allocated for consumer advertising programs.

Speaking at an investors conference on Thursday in Boston, co-CEOs Betsy Holden and Roger Deromedi said the company will increase incremental spending on its biscuits, coffee, cold cuts and cheese businesses for the remainder of the year.

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