History 18** years, Henry Nestle, the "father of Nestle", invented and produced infant nutrition porridge in view of the high infant mortality rate at that time.
1866, Henry Nestle founded Nestle, and took his coat of arms-bird (Nestle)-as the company's symbol, which was the embryonic form of Nestle, which later became famous all over the world.
1868, Henry Nestle set up sales points in Paris, Frankfurt and London. 130 for more than 30 years, it is precisely because of the influence of Henry Nestle that Nestle has grown into an international company.
1890-1902, Nestle successively set up factories in Europe and America, and merged with Yingrui condensed milk company, another source of Nestle, to become a world-class food giant at that time.
1947, Nestle merged with Swiss Meguiar Company, which increased the company's sales from 833 million Swiss francs to1340 million Swiss francs.
In 1970s, infants and young children in Africa, South America and other places became sick due to drinking the dairy products produced by Nestle Company, and the number including deaths reached10 million every year. To this end, consumers in the United States and other places have launched a campaign of refusing to buy Nestle food for more than ten years since 1973. It was not until 1984 that Nestle recognized and implemented the World Health Organization's international regulations on the distribution of breast milk substitutes that the International Committee for Boycott of Nestle Products announced the end of the boycott.
1984, Nestle acquired the American food giant Sanhua Company.
1988, Nestle Company and Dongguan Sugar and Liquor Group Co., Ltd. established Dongguan Nestle Co., Ltd., mainly producing instant coffee and related products.
1988, acquired the Italian company Baokangli.
1988, Nestle acquired Rowntree Macintosh, a British candy company that produces Kit-Kat and Smarties chocolates.
1In the autumn of 999, Nestle successfully acquired Taitai Le, a well-known seasoning food enterprise in China.
In 2002, the Ethiopian government nationalized Nestle's local branch, and Nestle intended to claim 800 million US dollars from the Ethiopian government, which caused worldwide criticism. Later, Nestle gave in and was willing to reduce the compensation to 100 million yuan and use it for local construction, and the incident temporarily subsided.
In 200 1 year, Coca-Cola and Nestle established a joint venture company, namely BPW Global Beverage Partner Company, with each party holding 50% equity to jointly develop the beverage business of black tea and green tea. Coca-Cola is mainly responsible for product distribution and production, while Nestle is mainly responsible for product planning, design, research and development and brand support.
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On August 6th, 2002, Nestle bought ChefAmerica for $2.6 billion.
In April 2008, Novartis spent 1 0.04 billion USD to acquire 74 million shares of Alcon from Nestle 143. 18 USD, and the trading conditions at that time also included from 20 10/0.
On April 4th, 2009/kloc-0, Novartis spent $28 1 100 million to acquire 52% equity of Alcon Pharmaceutical Factory under Nestle at the price of $0/80 per share.
20 10/month 5, Nestle bought the frozen pancake business of Kraft in the United States and Canada for $3.7 billion in cash. The business includes pizza brands such as DiGiorno, Tombstone, CaliforniaPizzaKitchen, Jack's and Delissio. In the United States and Canada, Nestle has established a leading position in fast food and portable food categories through brands such as Stouffer's, LeanCuisine, Buitoni, HotPockets and LeanPocket.
20 1 1 April17th, Switzerland Nestle announced that it had signed a joint venture agreement to acquire Yinlu Food Group (Yinlu Group) and acquired 60% equity of Yinlu Group. The sales of Yinlu in 20 10 was 750 million Swiss francs (about 5.46 billion yuan).
On July 20 1 11day, Nestle acquired 60% equity of Hsu Fu Chi, the largest candy manufacturer in China, for S $2 1 billion (about US$ 01700 million). The Xu family will sell 16.48% shares to Nestle, but according to the merger agreement, they still hold 40% shares in the joint venture company.
On June 6th, 20 12/kloc-0, Nestle Group and Coca-Cola agreed to reduce the business scope of the ready-to-drink tea joint venture company-Global Beverage Partner Company (BPW) to Europe and Canada. Coca-Cola in other parts of the world no longer helps to sell and produce Nestle tea. However, * * and Coca-Cola and Nestle in Hong Kong will still sign licensing agreements for Nestle iced tea brands.
20 12 On April 23rd, Nestle acquired Wyeth milk powder business, a baby food division of Pfizer, for11850 million dollars.
20 121/on 28th, Hutchison Whampoa agreed to establish a joint venture with Nestle Health Science, a subsidiary of Nestle, to develop intestinal therapy based on traditional Chinese medicine; Both parties hold 50/50 equity.
20 15 10/5. From 1 1 month, Coca-Cola stopped helping to sell and produce Nestle tea in * *. Nestle tea began to fade out of the market.