Krispy Kreme, Inc. (DNUT)

Doughnut shops and factories. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025, filed March 6, 2026. Ranked 35 of the 39 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A doughnut company whose filing states one total and describes its factories, theater shops and fresh shops but counts none, so the bakery and eating-place patterns follow description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 12% now, 17% at the end of 2027, 18% at the end of 2028, 18% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 18% desk work, 15% people work and 67% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 82% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 11% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

17,000 employees as of December 28, 2025 (stated). No count by country is stated; the filing describes seven U.S. Doughnut Factories, one of them franchised, and 39 abroad, 25 of them franchised.

The filing: “Globally, Krispy Kreme employs approximately 17,000 Krispy Kremers as of December 28, 2025.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 17,000 employees globally; not a party to any collective bargaining agreement in the U.S. and most of its markets; benefits offered to part-time employees; franchisees operate one of the seven U.S. Doughnut Factories and 25 of the 39 abroad, and their people are not counted (rule 8).

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Bakeries and Tortilla Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ, 91,000 employees)15% now, 23% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's AI sentences are risk factors: emerging technologies including AI may not deliver the efficiencies expected and could bring risks of inaccuracies, bias and infringement, AI may sharpen cyber threats, and such technologies are changing operations across its industry.

• “Moreover, to the extent we invest in and utilize emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, such technologies may not deliver expected efficiencies and could introduce new risks, such as those related to cybersecurity, data privacy, inaccuracies, hallucinations, bias or discrimination and intellectual property infringement, which may become more pronounced as...”
• “Further, these types of threats may be exacerbated by recent developments in artificial intelligence and its increased use to produce sophisticated malware, ransomware, phishing schemes, and other fraudulent activities.”
• “Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are impacting many industries and business operations, including ours.”
• “Moreover, we cannot predict consumer or team member acceptance of these developing technologies (e.g., automation, artificial intelligence, and new delivery channels) or their impact on our business, nor can we be certain of our ability to implement such technologies, any of which could result in loss of sales, dissatisfaction from our consumers and employees, or negative publicity that could a...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20243median 4
• Fiscal 20254median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• Pattern shares rest on the filing's description of its shop kinds (c); no count by kind of location is stated.
• The U.S. share is not stated.
• Franchisees' employees are not counted (rule 8).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001857154-26-000015, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.