title: Kraft Group
text: # Kraft Group
  
  The Kraft Group, LLC, is a group of privately held companies in the professional sports, manufacturing, and real estate development industries doing business in 90 countries. Founded in 1998 by American businessman Robert Kraft as a holding company for various interests he had acquired since 1968, it is based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
  
  ## Corporate structure
  
  * Kraft Sports Group
     * New England Patriots, LP (founded in 1960, acquired by Kraft in 1994)
     * New England Revolution, LP (founded by Kraft in 1995)
     * Gillette Stadium, $325 million facility privately financed by Kraft (opened 2002)
        * Patriot Place, $350 million "lifestyle and entertainment center" around Gillette Stadium (opened 2007–2008)
     * TeamOps, LLC (founded in 2006)
        * TeamOps (Event Staff)
        * TeamOps Detect
     * Boston Breach, a Call of Duty League team (founded in 2021)
     * Boston Uprising, an Overwatch League team (founded in 2017)
  * Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR)
  * Rand-Whitney Group, LLC (founded in 1857, acquired by Kraft in 1968)
     * Previously owned by Jacob Hiatt, father of Kraft's wife Myra Kraft
     * Based in Worcester, Massachusetts, includes:
        * Rand-Whitney Container, LLP
        * Rand-Whitney Containerboard, LLP
        * Rand-Whitney Waste, LLP
  * International Forest Products, LLC (founded by Kraft in 1972)
     * Operated by Robert Kraft's son Daniel Kraft
  * More than 30 private equity investments
     * Principal shareholdings
        * Carmel Container Systems, Ltd.
           * Based in Caesarea, Israel
        * American-Israeli Paper Mills, Ltd.
           * Based in Hadera, Israel
        * Ampal Enterprises, Ltd.
           * Based in Tel Aviv, Israel
  