Nestlé

Nestlé is a large multinational company founded in 1867 by Swiss pharmacist Henri Nestlé. World headquarters are in Vevey, Switzerland; where the company was founded. It is the largest food company in the world, producing a huge range of food and drink products. In addition, Nestlé owns 49% of Gesparal, a holding company that in turn has outright control with 53.7% of the shares of L'Oréal, the world's largest cosmetics firm.

Table of contents

1 Brands owned by Nestlé
2 Criticism of Nestlé's business practices
3 Countries where Nestlé operates
4 Stock symbols for Nestlé
5 External links

Brands owned by Nestlé

Recently in the United Kingdom, Nestlé have been labeling some of their products not as themselves, but as "Ambient Products Ltd".

Rowntrees, Branston pickle, Toffee Crisp, Smarties, Carnation, Yorkie, Shreddies, Shredded Wheat, Polos, Golden Grahams and many, many others.

Criticism of Nestlé's business practices

Like many multinational companies, since the 1980s, it has attracted criticism, for example by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, for its business and marketing practices in Third world countries. In Nestlé's case, this has centered on its apparent recommendations for nursing mothers to switch to its infant formula milk products, leading to the alleged deaths of about 1.5 million babies each year. Nestlé allegedly has violated and regularly continued to violate the widely consensed on International Code of Marketing Breast-milk Substitutes. This has led to boycotts of its products by certain consumer groups and organizations, loosely coordinated in the International Baby Food Action Network [1].

In 2002 the company was criticized for its intention to seek £2m compensation from the Ethiopian government, for a company that had been nationalized in 1975 by the Marxist Mengistu regime. To put that in context, compare that figure with the turnover of Nestle [1] and then the GDP of Ethiopia, the 159th country of 164 [1] by the UN's Human Development Index.

International offices include Brampton, Ontario.

Countries where Nestlé operates

Pakistan, Malaysia, India, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Stock symbols for Nestlé

The company is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange with stock symbol NESN. Other listings:

ticker name	Department name	Stockmarket	Region of operation
MLKP.KA	NESTLÉ MILKPAK LTD (FORMERLY MILKPAK LTD)	Pakistan
NESM.KL	NESTLÉ (MALAYSIA) BHD	Malaysia
NEST.CI	NESTLÉ COTE D'IVOIRE SA *	Côte d'Ivoire
NSTL.LG	NESTLÉ FOODS NIGERIA PLC	Nicaragua
NEST.BO	NESTLÉ INDIA LTD	India
NEST.NS	NESTLÉ INDIA LTD	India
NEST.CM	NESTLÉ LANKA LTD	Sri Lanka
011048765_t.LU	NESTLÉ HOLDINGS INC	Luxembourg	?
012950438_t.LU	NESTLÉ HOLDINGS INC	Luxembourg	?
NESZc.BR	NESTLÉ SA	Belgium	Belgium
NSRGYN.MX	NESTLÉ SA	Mexico	Mexico
NESN.BE	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	Belgium
NESN.D	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	Denmark?
NESN.DE	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	Germany?
NESN.F	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	France
NESN.H	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	Hungary?
NESN.HA	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	?
NESN.MU	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	?
NESN.SG	NESTLÉ SA	Germany	?
NESN.PA	NESTLÉ SA	France
NESK4.PA	NESTLÉ SA	France
NESN.VX	NESTLÉ SA	United Kingdom
NESNq.L	NESTLÉ SA	United Kingdom
NSRGF.PK	NESTLÉ SA	United States
NSRGY.PK	NESTLÉ SA	United States
NSRXY.PK	NESTLÉ SA	United States
NSLYF.PK	NESTLÉ (MALAYSIA) BHD	United States
NTLZF.PK	NESTLÉ DEUTSCHLAND AG	United States

(ANC. CIE AFRICAINE DE PREPARATIONS ALIMENTAIRES CAPRAL NESTLÉ)