Nestlé

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Nestlé

Basic information
Founded	1866
Legal Structure	Public
Industry	Food processing
Also known as	Nestlé S.A.
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.

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.

Products

Nestlé owns over 2000 brands. As such, only the more popular brands are listed here.

Aero Acqua Panna Alfaré HMO Alfamino HMO Antica Gelateria Del Corso Athéra HMO Baci Perugina Bear Brand BOOST Blue Bottle Coffee Carnation Cerelac Cheerios Chocapic Cini Minis Coffee mate Compleat Corn Flakes DiGiorno Drumstick Extrême Fitness Garden Gourmet Garden of Life

Gerber Häagen-Dazs Impact KitKat KitKat Cereal Koko Krunch La Laitière La Lechera Lion Cereals Maggi Materna Maxibon MilkyBar Milo Minor's Mövenpick Molico Nancare Nido Nescafé Nespresso Nesquick Nestea

Nestlé Professional Nestlé Pure Life Nestlé Vital Nestum Orgain Peptamen Perrier Pure Encapsulations Purina Resource Sanpellegrino Shreddies Shredded Wheat Original Smarties Solgar Starbucks Coffee At Home Stouffer's Thomy Trix Cereal Twix Vitaflo Vital Proteins Yiyang

See also

• Dairy Queen