Nestlé has completed 2 recorded acquisitions and 1 divestiture or spin-off, spanning 1985 to 2018.
| Date | Type | Assets | Counterparty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2018 | Acquisition | Starbucks at Home | Starbucks | $7.15bn |
| Mar 2018 | Divestiture | Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Crunch | Ferrero | $2.8bn |
| Jan 1985 | Acquisition | Carnation | — | $3bn |
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 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 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.
Ownership recorded here as having ended, whether or not a deal record with a filing behind it exists for the transfer.