Note 8. Capital Stock: |
Note8. Capital Stock:
Our articles of incorporation authorize 3.0billion shares of ClassA common stock, 2.0billion shares of ClassB common stock and 500million shares of preferred stock. Shares of ClassA common stock issued, repurchased and outstanding were:
Shares Issued Shares Repurchased Shares Outstanding
Balance at January1, 2006 555,000,000 (65,119,245 ) 489,880,755
Repurchase of shares (38,744,248 ) (38,744,248 )
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
4,836,138 4,836,138
Balance at December31, 2006 555,000,000 (99,027,355 ) 455,972,645
Repurchase of shares (111,516,043 ) (111,516,043 )
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards 9,321,018 9,321,018
Conversion of Class B common shares to ClassA common shares 1,180,000,000 1,180,000,000
Balance at December31, 2007 1,735,000,000 (201,222,380 ) 1,533,777,620
Repurchase of shares (25,272,255 ) (25,272,255 )
Shares tendered (Note 2) (46,119,899 ) (46,119,899 )
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards 6,915,974 6,915,974
Balance at December31, 2008 1,735,000,000 (265,698,560 ) 1,469,301,440
Upon the spin-off, Altria converted all of its ClassB shares of Kraft Foods common stock into ClassA shares of Kraft Foods common stock. Following our spin-off from Altria, we only have ClassA common stock outstanding. There were no Class B common stock or preferred shares issued and outstanding at December31, 2008 and 2007.
On August4, 2008, we completed the split-off of the Post cereals business. In this transaction, approximately 46.1million shares of Kraft Foods Common Stock were tendered for $1,644 million.
At December31, 2008, 139,940,307 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 our current program at our discretion. The total repurchases under these programs were 25.3million shares for $777 million in 2008, 110.1million shares for $3,640 million in 2007, and 38.7million shares for $1,250 million in 2006. We made these repurchases of our Common Stock in open market transactions.
Share Repurchase Program
Authorized by the Board of Directors $5.0billion $2.0billion $1.5 billion
Authorized / completed period for repurchase April2007
March 2009 March2006
March 2007 December2004
March 2006
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased in 2008 (millions of shares) $777 million
(25.3 shares)
Aggregate cost of shares repurchased in 2007 (mil |