https://brandtree.org/company/nestleAcquisitions, divestitures and ownership changes involving Nestlé.https://brandtree.org/deal/nestle-acquires-starbucks-retail-2018https://brandtree.org/deal/nestle-acquires-starbucks-retail-2018Tue, 28 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMTNestlé 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.https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-nestle-us-candy-2018https://brandtree.org/deal/ferrero-acquires-nestle-us-candy-2018Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMTNestlé 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.https://brandtree.org/deal/nestle-acquires-carnation-1985https://brandtree.org/deal/nestle-acquires-carnation-1985Fri, 04 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMTNestlé 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.