Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji Swiss-based food giant Nestle will pay Starbucks $ 7.15 billion in cash for the rights to sell the U.S. coffee chain’s products around the world in a global alliance aimed at reinvigorating their coffee empires. The deal on Monday for a business with $ 2 billion in sales reinforces Nestle’s position as the […]
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Nestlé is launching millennial pink KitKats in the UK
Nestlé A new KitKat will soon be hitting stores in the UK. New KitKat Ruby will be available from Monday, April 16. The pink hue is natural from ruby cacao beans. Did you know there was a fourth kind of chocolate? Neither did we. Along with milk, dark and white, ruby chocolate or ‘couverture chocolate’ […]
75 For and 80,945 Against: Nestle allowed to pump more water in Michigan despite public outcry
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has given Nestle permission to extract 400 gallons (1,500 liters) of water per minute for its Stanwood bottling plant, in the face of a sustained protest campaign. “We cannot base our decisions on public opinion because our department is required to follow the rule of law when making determinations,” […]
Nestle under fire for selling California water ‘without a valid basis’
Published time: 28 Dec, 2017 23:20 Nestle is under scrutiny by California legislators for selling water from the drought-stricken state. The company has been bottling and selling water taken from the San Bernardino Forest without proper permits. Following a 20-month investigation, California’s State Water Resources Control Board issued a report suggesting Nestle cease taking water […]
Atari sues Nestle, says Kit Kat video game ad violates Breakout copyright
Enlarge (credit: 2AM films / Nestle) Atari claims that a commercial for Nestle’s Kit Kat candy bars violates the copyright and trademark rights of Breakout, Atari’s iconic 1975 video game. Nestle’s 30-second spot “leverage[s] Breakout and the special place it holds among nostalgic Baby Boomers, Generation X, and even today’s Millennial and post-Millennial ‘gamers’ in order to maximize the […]
Nestle spark OUTRAGE over NUT-FREE range of Walnut Whip
The firm claims the new vanilla, caramel and mint varieties will offer consumers more choice. They insist the idea will prove popular with people who do not like nuts. But “the nutty” move appears to have whipped up a storm on social media with many fans unhappy the confectioner had tinkered with one of its […]
Nestle to slash HUNDREDS of British jobs as it moves Blue Riband biscuit production abroad
The company is to axe almost 300 posts at UK factories in favour of a production plant in Poland. The job losses will mainly affect the company’s sites in York and Newcastle as well as a small number of cuts in Halifax and Girvan in Scotland. Furious union chiefs slammed with decision with the GMB […]
