1.1 Nature of Business: Factories

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1 NATURE OF BUSINESS
Nestl S.A is a Swiss multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey,
Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world measured by revenues.
Nestls products include baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea,
confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of
Nestls brands have annual sales of over CHF1 billion (about US$1.1 billion), including
Nespresso, Nescaf, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffers, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestl has 447
factories, operates in 194 countries, and employs around 333,000 people. It is one of the main
shareholders of LOreal, the worlds largest cosmetics company.
Nestl was formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in
1866 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lacte Henri Nestl, founded in
1866 by Henri Nestl. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again
following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and
infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including
Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libbys in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988,
and Gerber in 2007.
Nestl has a primary listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange and is a constituent of the Swiss Market
Index. It has a secondary listing on Euronext. In 2011, Nestl was listed No. 1 in the Fortune
Global 500 as the worlds most profitable corporation. With a market capitalization of US$ 233
billion, Nestl ranked No. 9 in the FT Global 500 2013.
1.2 THE NESTLE LOGO EVOLUTION

Henri Nestl was one of the first Swiss manufacturers to build up a brand with the help of a logo.
The original Nestl trademark was based on his family's coat of arms, which featured a single
bird sitting on a nest. This was a reference to the family name, which means nest in German.
Henri Nestl adapted the coat of arms by adding three young birds being fed by a mother, to
create a visual link between his name and his companys infant cereal products. He began using
the image as a trademark in 1868.
Today, the familiar birds nest logo continues to be used on Nestl products worldwide, in a
modified form.
Take a look at how it has evolved over the years.
1.3 HISTORY OF THE NESTLE COMPANY
Henri Nestl
Nestls origins date back to 1866, when two separate Swiss enterprises were founded that would
later form the core of Nestl. In the succeeding decades, the two competing enterprises
aggressively expanded their businesses throughout Europe and the United States.
In August 1867, Charles (US consul in Switzerland) and George Page, two brothers from Lee
County, Illinois, USA, established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham,
Switzerland. Their first British operation was opened at Chippenham, Wiltshire, in 1873.
A 1915 advertisement for Nestl Food, an early infant formula.

In September 1866, in Vevey, Henri Nestl developed a milk-based baby food, and soon began
marketing it. The following year saw Daniel Peter begin seven years of work perfecting his
invention, the milk chocolate manufacturing process. Nestls was the crucial cooperation that
Peter needed to solve the problem of removing all the water from the milk added to his chocolate
and thus preventing the product from developing mildew. Henri Nestl retired in 1875 but the
company, under new ownership, retained his name as Socit Farine Lacte Henri Nestl.
In 1877, Anglo-Swiss added milk-based baby foods to their products; in the following year, the
Nestl Company added condensed milk, such that the firms became direct and fierce rivals.
In 1905, the companies merged to become the Nestl and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk
Company, retaining that name until 1947, when the name Nestl Alimentana SA was taken as a
result of the acquisition of Fabrique de Produits Maggi SA (founded 1884) and its holding
company, Alimentana SA, of Kempttal, Switzerland. Maggi was a major manufacturer of soup
mixes and related foodstuffs. The companys current name was adopted in 1977. By the early
1900s, the company was operating factories in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany,
and Spain. The First World War created demand for dairy products in the form of government
contracts, and, by the end of the war, Nestls production had more than doubled.
Nestl felt the effects of the Second World War immediately. Profits dropped from US$20
million in 1938, to US$6 million in 1939. Factories were established in developing countries,
particularly in Latin America. Ironically, the war helped with the introduction of the companys
newest product, Nescaf (Nestls Coffee), which became a staple drink of the US military.
Nestls production and sales rose in the wartime economy.
The logo that Nestl used until 1966.

After the war, government contracts dried up, and consumers switched back to fresh milk.
However, Nestls management responded quickly, streamlining operations and reducing debt.
The 1920s saw Nestls first expansion into new products, with chocolate-manufacture becoming
the companys second most important activity. Louis Dapples was CEO till 1937, when
succeeded by douard Muller till his death in 1948.
The end of World War II was the beginning of a dynamic phase for Nestl. Growth accele

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A 1915 advertisement for Nestl Food, an early infant formula.

The logo that Nestl used until 1966.

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