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+| Founded = 1866
+| Industry = Food processing
+| Type = Public
+|Description=Nestlé S.A is a Swiss multinational food and beverage processing conglomerate corporation.
+| Website = https://www.nestle.com/
+|Logo=Nestlé.svg
+|CompanyAlias=Nestlé S.A.}}
-A corporation known for deceiving people, modern slavery, environmental pollution, and stealing water in order to sell it to the same people whose water is being stolen.{{Citation needed}} They also happen to make drinkable and edible products.
+'''{{Wplink|Nestlé|Nestlé S.A}}''' is a Swiss multinational food and beverage processing conglomerate corporation.
-[[Category:Food industry]]
+==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==
+<!--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestl%C3%A9-->
+This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raghavan |first=Sudarsan |last2=Chatterjee |first2=Sumana |date=2001-05-24 |title=Stop Chocolate Slavery |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917014323/https://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/atasteofslavery.html |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=combating child labour in cocoa growing |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630204954/https://www.ilo.org/public//english//standards/ipec/themes/cocoa/download/2005_02_cl_cocoa.pdf |url-status=dead |website=International Labour Organization}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-04-12 |title=Mali's children in chocolate slavery |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1272522.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226141935/https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1272522.stm |archive-date=2008-12-26 |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-05-04 |title=Ivory Coast accuses chocolate companies |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1311982.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114115945/https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1311982.stm |archive-date=2009-01-14 |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=BBC News}}</ref>
+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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sartore |first=Melissa |date=2018-12-20 |title=Remembering The Nestlé Baby Formula Scandal That Rocked The 1970s |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/nestle-baby-formula-boycott/melissa-sartore |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.is/DRoqB |archive-date=21 Oct 2021 |access-date=21 Oct 2021 |website=ranker}}</ref>
+==Products==
+Nestlé owns over 2000 brands.<ref>{{Cite web |author= |title=Brands |url=https://www.nestle.com/brands |website=Nestlé |date= |access-date=7 May 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260327160942/https://www.nestle.com/brands |archive-date=27 Mar 2026}}</ref> As such, only the more popular brands are listed here.
+<table width="50%">
+  <tr>
+  <td width="33.3%">
+*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</td>
+  <td width="33.3%">
+*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</td>
+  <td width="33.3%">
+*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</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+==See also==
+*[[Dairy Queen]]
+==References==
+{{Reflist}}
+[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]