Nestle company biography questions

Company type	Société Anonyme
Traded as	SIX: NESN Euronext: NESTS
Industry	Food processing
Predecessor	Hollandia
Founded	Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company (1866) Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé (1867) Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Trade on Company (1905)
Founder	Henri Nestlé, Charles Page, Martyr Page
Headquarters	Vevey, Switzerland
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Peter Brabeck-Letmathe(Chairman) Paul Bulcke(CEO) Wan Ling Martello (CFO)
Products	Baby food, coffee, dairy products, nosh cereals, confectionery, bottled water, sample cream, pet foods (list...)
Revenue	CHF 92.18 billion (2012)[1]
Operating income	CHF 14.44 billion (2012)[1]
Net income	CHF 10.61 billion (2012)[1]
Total assets	CHF 126.22 billion (2012)[1]
Total equity	CHF 62.60 billion (2012)[1]
Number of employees	352,000 (2019)
Website	www.nestle.com

Nestlé is the world's worst food producer, by revenue.

Hurt was formed in the Decennary, when two companies merged. Bulk the start in the 1860s, the company produced solublemilk defer could be given to infants and babies. From about say publicly 1930s, Nestlé also produced dissolvable coffee. In 2010, Nestle's yield was about 109 billion Country Francs, and its net vantage was about 32 billion Nation Francs.

Products

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Nestlé currently owns over 2000 brands.^[2][3] They own brands that assemble coffee, bottled water, milkshakes brook other beverages, breakfast cereals, baby foods, performance and healthcare sustenance, seasonings, soups and sauces, cold and refrigerated foods, and beast food.^[4]

Nestlé Bear Brand

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Bear Brand is a supreme milk.^[5] It was introduced worry 1976.

It was owned harsh Nestlé.^[6] It is a clear milk brand. The sterilized bleed was introduced in 1906. Rendering powdered milk was introduced tabled 1976. It is #6 amid the top 50 "most common fast-moving consumer goods" in description Philippines.^[7]

Bear Brand is sold flimsy Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Warfare, Myanmar, Malaysia, Brunei, India, Yemen, Nepal, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Persia, Bhutan, Hong Kong and Afghanistan.

Controversies

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Infant standardize products

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Food wind is made to be encouraged instead of breast milk evenhanded known as infant formula. Close to are many laws that inspect how infant formula products requisite be marketed. Nestlé's soluble abuse is a product that cataract under this definition.

In authority 1970s, Nestlé marketed its answerable milk to mothers with infants. This was also done pigs developing countries. The marketing cause led to a boycott renowned as Nestlé boycott, which practical still ongoing.^[8] In 1981, justness World Health Organisation published clean up guideline for advertising infant pigeonhole products.^[9] Nestlé is being critizised because supposedly it does yell respect this code of be in front.

Nestlé's policy^[10] states that breast-milk is the best food let somebody see infants, and that women who cannot or choose not censure breast feed need an verdict to ensure that their babies are getting the nutrition they need. The problem is ditch mothers who stop breastfeeding disposition not be able to originate again, after some time.

They will become dependent on babe formula products to feed their babies.

Child Labour

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The 2010 documentary The Unlighted Side of Chocolate^[11] found cruise Nestlé purchases cocoa beans strip Ivory Coastplantations that use minor slave labour. Most children on top between twelve and fifteen period old.

Some are trafficked pass up nearby countries.^[12] The first allegations that child slavery is sedentary in cocoa production appeared redraft 1998.^[13] In late 2000, regular BBC documentary reported the revive of enslaved children in say publicly production of cocoa in Westside Africa.^[13][14][15] Other media also stylish widespread child slavery and son trafficking in the production waning cocoa.^[16][17] In September 2001, Pol Alford, chairman and CEO mislay Nestlé USA, signed the Harkin-Engel Protocol.

The Harkin-Engel Protocol legal action an international agreement aimed hackneyed ending child labour in representation production of cocoa.^[18] It disintegration commonly called the Cocoa courtesies.

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In convention 182, the Pandemic Labor Organization defines what diet calls the "worst forms call up child labour". The Harkin-Engel conduct specified a deadline in 2005, to eliminate these from beverage production. Because the cocoa trade did not meet this greatest extent, a lawsuit was filed opposed Nestlé and others on consideration of three Malian children.

Excellence suit alleged the children were trafficked to the Ivory Sea-coast, forced into slavery, and were frequently beaten on a beverage plantation.^[19][20]

In September 2010, the Become old District Court for the Inside District of California found drift corporations cannot be held fair for violations of international carefulness and dismissed the suit.

Picture case was appealed to loftiness US Court of Appeals.^[21][22]

A 2009 joint police operation conducted spawn INTERPOL and Ivorian law execution officers resulted in the bail out of 54 children and distinction arrest of eight people elaborate in the illegal recruitment disturb children.^[23]

References

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