Nestlé was founded by Henri Nestlé in 1866 as the Anglo-Swiss condensed Milk Company and has since grown to become the world's largest food and beverage company. The company is headquartered in Vaud, Switzerland, and offers over 2000 brands around the world in 189 countries. There are 413 Nestlé factories producing Nestlé products in 85 countries. Nestlé offers a wide variety of food products, such as breakfast cereals, coffees, teas, sweets, dairy products, frozen foods, snacks, medical foods, baby foods, and beverages.
Nestlé conducts research on potential phage therapies. Nestlé funded a study on the Nestle Research Centre developed T4-like coliphages and a commercial Russian coliphage product by the company Microgen for treatment of acute bacterial diarrhea. The 2016 study showed no adverse events but failed to improve diarrhea outcome.
Nestlé's business portfolio includes a wide range of brands. These include food and beverages, health care and nutrition, and pet care and petfood. These can be broken down further into baby foods; bottled water; cereals; chocolate and confectionary; coffee; culinary, chilled, and frozen food; dairy; drinks; food service; healthcare nutrition; ice cream; petcare.
Business portfolio
Baby goods
Cerelac, Gerber, NaturNes
Bottled water
Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, San Pellegrino
Cereals
Cheerios, Fitness, Lion, Nesquik Cereal
Chocolate and confectionary
Aero, Cailler, KitKat, Milkybar, Nestlé Les Recettes de l'Atelier, Orion, Quality Street, Smarties, Toll House
Coffee
Blue Bottle Coffee, Nescafé, Nescafé Dolce Gusto, Nespresso, Starbucks Coffee At Home
On top of the company's current brand and product portfolio, Nestlé develops products and services that offer nutrition and health for people and pets. This includes an estimated 4,000 scientists, engineers, nutritionists, and regulatory specialists who help the company develop products through scientific research and fast innovation. Further, the company is working on sustainability and trend-based innovations to develop products that consumers are interested in purchasing.
Nestlé Health Science works to use the company's size to develop innovations for people to live healthier lives, through science and nutrition. This division also works on developing sustainable solutions for products and packaging to help the company's sustainability goals. Further, the Health Science division works to provide nutrition products to fill nutrition gaps and provide products for patients and customers to live healthier lives.
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Further Resources
Nestlé: 150 Years of Food Industry Dominance
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May 25, 2017