Nestlé
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| Basic information | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1866 |
| Legal Structure | Public |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Also known as | |
| Official website | https://www.nestle.com/ |
Nestlé S.A is a Swiss multinational food and beverage processing conglomerate corporation.
Consumer-impact summary
In Nestlé's over a century of operation, the company has been embroiled in a significant amount of controversies for its business practices. These range from deforestation and food safety to outright modern day slave labor.
Incidents
This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Nestlé category.
Child labor and modern slavery
Nestlé, since they started selling products using parts of the cocoa plant, have been using unethically obtained cocoa beans. These cocoa beans tend to be obtained through forced labour, child slavery and modern slavery, with farmers being often paid too little to live off of.[1][2][3][4]
Nestlé is one of the big chocolate companies that uses unethically obtained cocoa beans to cut down on costs to maximize profits.
Food safety
Starting from the 1970s Nestlé employed a marketing strategy for their infant formula, targeting mothers in poor and underdeveloped regions. This strategy included disguising market representatives as health care providers to falsely claim health benefits of their product compared to breast milk and handing out free samples portioned such that the mothers would loose the ability to produce breast milk. These marketing practices being performed in under developed regions resulted in adverse health effects and deaths. Since many mothers could not afford a sufficient supply of formula, they would stretch the portions leading to malnutrition of the child. The fact that the formula has to be mixed with water combined with the poor access to safe drinking water resulted in many children suffering from and often even succumbing to disease such as cholera.[5]
Products
- KitKat
- Twix
- Smarties
- Nesquick
- Fitness
- Cheerios
- Lion Cereals
- Cini Minis
- KitKat Cereal
- Chocapic
- Koko Krunch
- Shreddies
- Shredded Wheat Original
- Corn Flakes
- Trix Cereal
- Aero
- MilkyBar
- Baci Perugina
- Nescafé
- Nespresso
- Blue Bottle Coffee
- Starbucks Coffee At Home
- Maggi
- DiGiorno
- Thomy
- Garden Gourmet
- Carnation
- La Laitière
- Coffee mate
- Nestea
- Häagen-Dazs
- Mövenpick
- Extrême
- Drumstick
- Maxibon
- Antica Gelateria Del Corso
- Nancare
- Gerber
- Cerelac
- Nestum
- Alfaré HMO, Athéra HMO, Alfamino HMO
- Bear Brand
- Nido
- Orgain
- Nestlé Vital
- Materna
- Vital Proteins
- BOOST
- Molico
- Yiyang
- Garden of Life
- Pure Encapsulations
- Solgar
- Compleat
- Impact
- Peptamen
- Vitaflo
- Resource
- Purina
- Perrier
- S.Pellegrino
- Acqua Panna
- Nestlé Pure Life
- Sanpellegrino
- Milo
- La Lechera
- Minor's
- Stouffer's
- Nestlé Professional
See also
References
- ↑ Raghavan, Sudarsan; Chatterjee, Sumana (2001-05-24). "Stop Chocolate Slavery".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "combating child labour in cocoa growing" (PDF). International Labour Organization.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Mali's children in chocolate slavery". BBC News. 2001-04-12. Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
- ↑ "Ivory Coast accuses chocolate companies". BBC News. 2001-05-04. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
- ↑ Sartore, Melissa (2018-12-20). "Remembering The Nestlé Baby Formula Scandal That Rocked The 1970s". ranker. Archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021. Retrieved 21 Oct 2021.
- ↑ https://www.nestle.com/brands