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Carlos Abrams-rivera

Former Chief Executive Officer & Director, Kraft Heinz

Search every verified Carlos Abrams-rivera interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. During Kraft Heinz’s Q4 2024 earnings call on February 13, 2025, Carlos Abrams-Rivera reported that the company returned $2.7 billion to stockholders in 2024 through dividends and share buybacks, which he described as offering “the highest yield in food.” He stated that innovation as a percentage of organic net sales increased from 1.6% in 2022 to 2.9% in 2024, and highlighted a 24% dollar sales growth from the company’s expanded Taco Bell partnership. Abrams-Rivera expressed optimism about the company’s momentum heading into 2025, saying “we got the right strategy in place.” In a March 2026 interview, Abrams-Rivera, by then former CEO of Kraft Heinz, discussed leadership challenges. He said he is “at my best where things are very challenging” and advised that leaders should expect ongoing volatility, noting “volatility will be the name of the game.” He emphasized the importance of bringing people along and staying humble, and said that CEOs should be open and transparent because “the more you open yourself, the more human you become, the more inspiring you can become.”

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“If you are thinking that there's going to be a moment here over the next five years that everything is going to go back to some level of normality please do not. So one of the big lessons is you have to be now working on an environment in which volatility will be the name of the game.”

“Large companies are now expected to not only do those things great, but also have a great point of view on policy, on government, on judicial decisions. And by the way, they also have to make sure what is the right bet they have to make on technology that may not be something that they will need to see for the next four or five years, but it's like 5 to 10 years in the road. So, so it's a much more complex environmen”

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