18** In view of the high infant mortality rate at that time, Henry Nestle, the "father of Nestle", invented and produced the infant nutrition porridge.
1866, Henry Nestle founded Nestle, and took his coat of arms-bird-as the company's symbol, which was the prototype of Nestle, which later became famous all over the world.
1868, Henry Nestle established sales outlets 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.
During 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 micron company, which increased the company's sales from 833 million Swiss francs to1340,000 Swiss francs.
In 1970s, infants and young children in Africa, South America and other places became sick due to drinking dairy products produced by Nestle, and the number of people including death reached 6.5438+million every year. To this end, consumers in the United States and other places launched a campaign of refusing to buy Nestle food for more than ten years from 1973. It was not until 1984 that Nestle recognized and implemented the international regulations of the World Health Organization on the sale of breast milk substitutes that the International Committee for Boycott of Nestle Products announced the end of the boycott.
1984, Nestle acquired 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 Acquisition of Italian Baokangli Company.
1988, Nestle acquired the British candy company Rowntree Macintosh, which produces Kit Kat chocolate and Smarties chocolate.
1In the autumn of 999, Nestle successfully acquired Taitai Le, a well-known domestic seasoning food enterprise.
In 2002, the Ethiopian government nationalized the local branch of Nestle, and Nestle intended to claim 800 million dollars from the Ethiopian government, which caused worldwide criticism. Later, Nestle gave in and was willing to reduce the compensation to 1 100 million yuan for local construction, and the incident temporarily subsided.
In 200 1 year, Coca-Cola and Nestle established a joint venture company, Beverage Partners Worldwide (BPW Global Beverage Partner Company), with each party holding 50% of the shares 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 acquired ChefAmerica for $2.6 billion.
In April 2008, Novartis bought 74 million Alcon shares from Nestle at a price of 65.438+043.18 USD each. At that time, the trading conditions also included that Novartis could buy Alcon from Nestle from 2065.438+00+0.
On June 4th, 2009, Novartis acquired a 52% stake in Alcon Pharmaceutical Factory, a subsidiary of Nestle, at a price of $65,438 +0.80 per share and $2,865,438+0 billion.
2065438+001kloc-0/0 On October 5th, Nestle bought Kraft's frozen pancake business 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 the category of fast food and portable food through brands such as Stouffer's, LeanCuisine, Buitoni, HotPockets and LeanPocket.
On 2011April 17, Nestle Switzerland announced that it had signed a joint venture agreement to acquire Yinlu Food Group (Yinlu Group) and acquired 60% equity of Yinlu Group. The annual sales of Yinlu in 20 10 is 750 million Swiss francs (about 5.46 billion yuan).
20 1 1 July11day, Nestle acquired 60% equity of Hsu Fu Kee, the largest candy manufacturer in China, for S $2 1 billion (about US$ 0.77 billion). 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.
20 12 16. Nestle Group and Coca-Cola agreed to reduce the business scope of the global semi-joint venture of ready-to-drink tea-Global Beverage Partner Company (BPW) to Europe and Canada. Coca-Cola no longer helps to sell and produce Nestle tea in other parts of the world. However, * * and Coca-Cola and Nestle in Hong Kong will still sign an authorization agreement for Nestle iced tea brand.
20 12 On April 23rd, Nestle acquired Wyeth milk powder business, a baby food division of Pfizer, for 1 185 billion dollars.
2012165438+1October 28th, Hutchison Whampoa agreed to set up a joint venture with Nestle Health Science, a subsidiary of Nestle, to develop intestinal therapy based on traditional Chinese medicine; Each party holds 50% equity.
20 15 10 15, Coca-Cola stopped helping to sell and produce Nestle tea on * *. Nestle tea began to fade out of the market.