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The content engine that keeps Heinz in every conversation | Karen Owen, Kraft Heinz

BEYOND THE BRAND··20 April 2026·33 min

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85% of Heinz's in-house content hits or beats the engagement rates their external agencies deliver. Karen Owen, Chief Growth Officer for Europe and Pacific at Kraft Heinz, built the team behind that. In this episode, she talks through the architecture of The Kitchen, Heinz's content studio now running across 4 continents, how it operates alongside external agencies rather than replacing them, and what it takes to keep a brand that has existed for 157 years part of cultural conversations while they're still happening. Karen Owen on LinkedIn