Nestlé (SIX: NESN) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland that owns 33 consumer brands across 3 categories, and has 3 recorded transactions.[1]
Nestlé is a Swiss food and drink company formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company with Henri Nestlé's infant food business, and traces its origins to 1866. It is the largest food company in the world by revenue and is organised around coffee, pet care, nutrition, dairy, confectionery and water.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Nestlé paid Starbucks $7.15 billion in cash for the perpetual right to sell Starbucks packaged coffee and tea in shops worldwide. No factories or staff transferred: the payment bought a licence, which is why the cafés and the supermarket bags now have different owners.
Nestlé acquired Carnation for about $3 billion, at the time the largest acquisition ever made outside the oil industry. It brought evaporated milk, Coffee mate and Friskies into the group and established Nestlé as a major American food company rather than a European one selling abroad.
Nestlé sold its United States confectionery business, including Butterfinger, Baby Ruth, Crunch and around twenty other brands, to Ferrero. Nestlé kept its confectionery businesses in every other market.
Nestlé controlled these 6 brands in the past. Each row shows when the ownership ended and who holds the brand now, so a page that once said Nestlé owned it still shows why it no longer does.
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Nestlé owns 33 consumer brands tracked here, including Nescafé, La Lechera, Gerber, Carnation, Stouffer's and KitKat.
Yes. Nestlé is headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland and was founded in 1866.
Nestlé is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as NESN on the SIX.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Starbucks at Home on 28 August 2018.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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