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49 unusual facts about Nestlé


100 Grand Bar

100 Grand Bar (formerly known as $100,000 Bar until the mid 1980s) is a candy bar produced by Nestlé in the United States.

Brad Blum

Blum helped to lead a start up company called "Cereal Partners Worldwide" (CPW) in Switzerland; they had partnered up with Nestlé for an equal interest in the company, 50/50.

Cayambe Canton

The Swiss food company Nestlé and the Cayambean company Miraflores have dairy-product factories in the city of Cayambe.

Cereal box prize

Other manufacturers of major brands of cereal (including General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nabisco, Nestlé, Post Foods, and Quaker Oats) followed suit and inserted prizes into boxes of cereal to promote sales and brand loyalty.

Cerelac

Cerelac is a brand of instant cereal made by Nestlé.

Chico babies

They are made by Australian company Allens Lollies, under the Nestlé Corporation.

Chipwich

CoolBrands, the country's second-largest ice cream distributor, bought the Chipwich brand in 2002, and sold it in 2007 to Dreyer's division of Nestlé who has stopped production of the original Chipwich because it competed with its own chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich.

Chocapic

Chocapic is a chocolate-flavoured whole-grain breakfast cereal distributed by Nestlé in most of Europe, the Middle-East and Latin America.

Chocolate Surpresa

The Chocolate Surpresa was a brand of chocolate made by Nestlé in Brazil.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (previously called Cinnamon Grahams in the UK but now called Curiously Cinnamon), known as Croque-Cannelle in French Canada and as a different-tasting but similar-looking variant called Cini Minis in other European countries where available, is a brand cereal produced by General Mills and Nestlé.

Contadina

The Carnation Company acquired the brand in 1963; Del Monte Foods acquired the brand of canned tomato products and certain other lines from Nestlé (which acquired Carnation in 1985) in December 1997.

Daniel Sarcos

After his departure from Súper Sábado Sensacional, he hosted El Familión Nestlé: Trato Hecho (Spanish-language version of Deal or No Deal) which airs on Ecuavisa and is sponsored by Nestlé.

Dewy's Adventure

The U.S. version of the game contains advertisements of Nestlé's Aquapod brand of bottled water.

Dreyer's

, a subsidiary of Nestlé, is a United States-based producer of ice cream and frozen yogurt founded in 1928 as Edy's Grand Ice Cream in Oakland, California by Joseph Edy and William Dreyer.

Eric Martlew

He worked as a technician and personnel manager for Nestlé from 1962-87 at the powdered milk factory in Dalston.

Ernest Saunders

He had a career in management with Beecham, Great Universal Stores and Nestlé before becoming chief executive of Guinness plc (now a part of Diageo plc) in 1981, remaining in the position until 1986.

F-1 Sensation

Real world sponsors are placed on the billboards that are in the background of each race course; including Shell, Nestlé, Sasol, and Agip.

Findus

The Swiss food company Nestlé owned the Findus brand from 1962 to 2000; it sold the rights to the brand in most of Europe in 2000 whilst retaining ownership in Switzerland.

FitNesse

Fitnesse is also a breakfast cereal marketed in the United Kingdom since 2003 by Nestlé.

Friskies

It is owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé.

Golden Grahams

In October 2010, Nestlé began producing Cinnamon and Golden Grahams in the UK again, announced on newly created Facebook group.

Hatton, Derbyshire

Local employers include Nestlé who have a historical presence in the village due to the surrounding farmland, which supported a strong dairy farming industry, and proximity to rail transport.

Holt Junction railway station

Taken over by Nestlé, milk trains were dispatched via the GWR and latterly British Railways to London on a daily basis.

John R. Montgomery

Montgomery worked at Burnett for 33 years, where he served as Executive Vice President, Executive Creative Director and handled accounts including McDonald’s (domestic and global), Minute Maid (Coca-Cola), Nintendo, Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, Allstate, 7-Up, Keebler, Green Giant, Miller Beers, United Airlines, Kraft Foods, Nestle and Samsonite.

Jorgensen Engineering

Today, Jorgensen Engineering has 250 employees worldwide, and supplies systems for i.e. Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth, H. J. Heinz Company, and Nestlé.

Kyabram

Nestlé (Tongala), Southern Processing Ltd and Bonlac (Stanhope) all have food processing plants nearby.

La Lechera

La Lechera, which means Milkmaid in Spanish, is a Nestlé brand, producing various dairy products.

Lyons Maid

The Lyons Maid brand logo, sometimes known as the 'Good Time Sign' but more generally referred to in house as the 'Dancing Children' was initially developed by advertising agency Young & Rubicam to identify the brand in CTN' s (corner sweet shops) and later on packaging and on ice cream vans but was eventually phased in across the whole product range where it continued to be used on branding and shop signage until Lyons Maid was sold to Nestlé in 1992.

Maggi noodles

Maggi noodles is a brand of instant noodles manufactured by Nestlé.

Matchmakers

Matchmakers are an elongated chocolate confectionery product made by Nestlé.

Nesle

:Not to be confused with Nesles, in the Pas-de-Calais department, or Nestlé, the corporation.

NestEgg

NestEgg, is a line of egg-shaped chocolate candies made by Nestlé.

Nestlé Waters

Nestlé S.A., the World's largest producer of bottled water, is frequently criticised for the ethics of its global control of limited water sources, often with the result of limiting access to those resources by local peoples, its high pricing, and as environmental and health concerns.

Newfield, Maine

On March 17, 2009, Newfield adopted a local law to stop Nestlé and other corporations from taking over their groundwater.

Noisiel

The Menier Chocolate factory operated until 1993 and today is a museum and the French head office of the Nestlé company who now own the company.

Paul Bulcke

Paul Bulcke (born 1954), is a Belgian businessman who was appointed Chief executive officer (CEO) of Nestlé on 20 September 2007 and officially started in his new role in April 2008.

Robert R. Korfhage

He was son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who as a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York.

Sarap TV

Sarap TV was a cooking television show produced by Nestlé and co-produced and aired by ABS-CBN from January 23, 1999 to March 23, 2002.

Shreddies

In the United Kingdom, the cereal was first produced by Nabisco's former UK division but is now made by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand at Welwyn Garden City.

Sin Parar

Sin Parar or Sem Parar (Non Stop in English) is the name of a line of candy bars and ice cream made by Nestlé.

Sno-Caps

The candy was introduced in the late 1920s by the Blumenthal Chocolate Company; Nestlé acquired the brand in 1984.

Space Food Sticks

They are marketed under the Nestlé Starz brand to modern-day Australian children as an energy food.

T. Gary Rogers

He was the CEO and he and Cronk were managers and principal shareholders of Dreyer's for almost 30 years, until the company was acquired by Nestlé in 2006.

Taliana Vargas

She has been the image of various well-known brands in her homeland such as L'Oréal Paris Elvive, Studio F, Nestlé and appeared in many publications.

Tequan Richmond

He appeared in magazine ads such as Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Newsweek, and National Geographic, as well as a national Nestlé print ad.

Vigor S.A.

The company is the sixth milk producer company in Brazil, and have many major competitors such as the Brazilians LBR - Lácteos Brasil, BRF and multinationals such as Nestlé, Danone and Parmalat.

Waterside, Buckinghamshire

It also comprises several industrial units including a bottled water producing factory (Nestlé Waters Powwow) situated on the former water cress/ trout farm site on Latimer road.

Wekepeke

Nestle Waters of North America (NWNA) was the only company to respond to the Town of Clinton Wekepeke water RFP.

Whitlingham

Gravel from Whitlingham has been used to build projects in the city such as the Castle Mall, The Forum and more recently, the redevelopment of the old Nestlé site into a major new shopping facility Chapelfield.


Beetroot Design Group

Clients include cultural institutions such as the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, as well as multinational corporations such as Lidl, Microsoft, Corbis and Nestlé.

Burns Philp

Following the sale of its yeast and spices business to UK firm Associated British Foods, Uncle Toby's to Nestle for NZ$1.1bn, Bluebird Foods to PepsiCo for NZ$245m, and its NZ$676m 20% stake in Goodman Fielder the company became largely a cashed up shell.

Deutsche Extrakt Kaffee

In 1955, the coffee roasters and importers Max Hertz, Walter Jacobs, Eduard Schopf and Bernhard Rothfos (*1898 in St. Magnus, †1998 in Hamburg) got together to plan the conversion of their own factories in order to facilitate the joint operation of the complex and expensive coffee extraction process (alongside Nestlé and Maxwell).

Fancy Feast

It was sold along with Friskies and other pet foods in 1985 to Nestlé, and the merger became Friskies PetCare Company.

Frigoglass

The company's customer base consists of the Coca-Cola Company Bottlers (Coca-Cola Hellenic, Coca-Cola Enterprises, BIG, Coca-Cola Amatil, Coca-Cola Sabco), Brewers (Heineken, SABMiller, Carlsberg, ABInbev, Efes), Pepsi and Dairy companies (Nestle, Danone) and many others.

Fruit Tingles

Originally manufactured by Allen's in Melbourne since the 1930s, they were rebranded in the 1990s as Wonka Fruit Tingles as part of Nestlé's purchase of the Allen's brand in 1985, and more recently became branded as Life Savers Fruit Tingles in the Asia Pacific region in 2005.

Fryeburg Water Co.

The Fryeburg Water Co. was ordered by the New Hampshire Utilities Commission (NHPUC) to provide the residents of East Conway, New Hampshire with Poland Spring bottled water (incidentally, the water that the utility sold to the Nestlé subsidiary) until the company fixed a pipeline that brought water from the spring in Maine to the homes in New Hampshire.

Glacio

Through a Management buyout, the management takes over the company and its subsidiaries from Nestlé in 2003.

Hassen Belkhodja

He was founder and PDG of the Banque nationale de Tunisie, founder of the Société tunisienne de l'industrie laitière, PDG of the Société nationale immobilière de Tunisie then the Office of Commerce, founder of Nestlé Tunisie before becoming in 1971 the head of the Société Tunisienne de Banque (STB).

Jonathan Dawson

Dawson continued to work as a writer director, primarily on commercials for clients like Qantas, Nestle, Volvo, as well as for many government election campaigns, creating a new style of "presidential" launch for the Federal Labor Party's successful national campaigns in 1983 and 1985 as well as directing TV commercials for Premier Neville Wran in New South Wales.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Nancheng District

Many large international enterprises have set up hubs in Nancheng, such as Walmart, Nokia, Nestle, etc., and from the list 12 of them are the world’s largest 500 enterprises.

Pet, Inc.

John Baptist Meÿenberg (1847-1914) was an operator at the Anglo-Swiss milk condensery at Cham, Switzerland.

Radioville

It is responsible for much of Britain's blue-chip company radio advertising, including among its clients The Carphone Warehouse, Harrods, BBC, Nationwide Building Society, Nestlé, Churches Advertising Network, Channel 4, DRDB, Autoglass and Time Out.

Raj Singh Arora

Arora has done commercials for companies such as like Tvs Scooty, Samsung Guru Mobile, Reliance Big TV, Candi Biscuits, Mountain Dew, Mc Donald's, Philips Led, McVitie's Biscuits, Nestle Munch, Wheel Detergent, Anne French and Centuary Mattress.

Reference Daily Intake

The RDA was developed during World War II by Lydia J. Roberts, Hazel Stiebeling and Helen S. Mitchell, all part of a committee established by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to investigate issues of nutrition that might "affect national defense" (Nestle, 35).

Sara García

Known as "Mexican Cinema's Grandmother", García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelita chocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.

García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelita chocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.

Sustainability standards and certification

For example, the Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C) was initiated by an alliance of main coffee roasters, including Kraft Foods, Sara Lee and Nestle, assisted by the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (GIZ).

Swisher Hygiene

It was known for its Eskimo Pie and Chipwich brands, which in February 2007, CoolBrands announced the sale of to the Dreyer's division of Nestlé.

Wittringen Castle

Another document from 1394 mentions Heinrich von Brachtbecke, a distant ancestor of Nestlé manager Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, as the castle’s owner.