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Nestlé: World's Largest Food Company
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2. Nestlé is a Swiss transnational food and drink company
headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.
It is the largest food company in the world, measured by
revenues and other metrics, since 2014.
It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33
on the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest
public companies.
3. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled
water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy
products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks.
Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over
billion
(about US$1.1 billion),including Nespresso, Nescafé, KitKat, Sm
arties,
Vittel, and Maggie.
Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and
employs around 339,000 people.
It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest
4. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk
Company, established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page,
and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé.
The company grew significantly during the First World War and
again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond
its early condensed milk and infant formula products.
The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions,
including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in
1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber in 2007.
5. Financial data in CHF billions[56]
Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Revenue 92.158 91.612 88.785 89.469 89.791
Net Income 10.015 14.456 9.066 8.531 7.183
Assets 120.442 133.450 123.992 131.901 130.380
Employees 333,000 339,000 335,000 328,000 323,000
Financial data
7. Products
Nestlé has over 2000 brands with a wide
range of products across a number of markets, including
coffee, bottled water, milkshakes and other beverages, breakfast
cereals, infant foods, performance and healthcare
nutrition, soups and sauces, frozen and refrigerated foods,
and pet food.
8. Beverages
With well over 3000 cups drunk every
second, sales of Nescafé have been growing ever since 1938
when Nestlé launched the first commercially successful soluble
coffee.
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10. Nescafé, which today includes ready-to-drink varieties, is by far
the world’s most popular brand of coffee.
11. Nestlé has long been a major player in the
dairy business worldwide, originally with well known shelf stable
brands such as Nido, Nespray, La Lechera and Carnation, then
building a strong international presence in chilled dairy and ice
cream under the Nestlé brand.
Milk products, nutrition and ice
cream
12. Prepared dishes, cooking aids and pet car
A diversified range of soups, stocks, sauces
and culinary preparations, primarily under the Maggi brand, is
adapted to local tastes, recipes and ingredients in each country.
Maggi instant noodles are sold in the Far East-Pacific area, as
well as Europe, Africa and Latin America.
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15. The global trend towards eating “on the go” provides
opportunities for Nestlé to grow by offering new and improved
confectionery concepts that respond to consumers’ desire for a
wider range of taste experiences, available whenever and
wherever they want them.
The range includes international brands such as Nestlé,
KitKat, Smarties, Lion, Crunch, After Eight and Polo as well as
popular local brands such as Cailler, Butterfinger, Rossiya,
Orion, Caja Roja, Sao Luiz and Star.
Chocolate, confectionery and biscuits
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17. Nestlé first entered the food services market in the early
eighties, targeting institutions and restaurants.
Over the next twenty years Nestlé rapidly increased its product
offering and built itself into the market leader.
Food Services
18. Pharmaceutical products
Alcon Laboratories is the global leader in vision care. Its
product lines cover therapeutic, surgical and consumer products,
including Patanol, Betoptic S, TobraDex and Ciloxan in
pharmaceuticals, LADAR Vision, AcrySof, Legacy, Accurus,
BSS, Viscoat, and Custom Paks in the Surgical area, Opti-Free
Express, Opti-One and Clerz Plus in Consumer Products and
Cipro HC Otic for ear care.
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20. Associated companies
Nestlé holds an interest of at least 20% in these companies but does not
exercise management control. They are included in the financial statements
by the equity method. Their net results appear, in proportion to Nestlé’s
participation, in the Group’s consolidated income statement under “Share of
results of associated companies”. The Group’s share of their net assets is
shown in the consolidated balance sheet under “Financial assets”.
The most important associated company is L’Oréal, the world leader in the
cosmetics market. Nestlé’s involvement with L’Oréal started in 1974. L’Oréal
markets over 500 brands and more than 2000 products in all sectors of the
beauty business: hair colour, permanents, styling aids, body and skincare,
cleansers and fragrances. Its products are found in all distribution channels
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22. Number of factories 2000
1999
Europe 198 220
Americas 151 153
Asia, Oceania and Africa 130 136
Total 479 509