Archive of all Nestlé articles – Page 30

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    Nestlé close coffee plant in Latin America

    2003-04-30T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé is to end its instant coffee production in El Salvador and blamed high running costs and outdated machinery for the closure of the plant.Nestlé said it would continue to sell instant coffee in El Salvador, and buy bags of beans from...

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    Nestlé is hyperactive

    2003-03-22T00:00:00Z

    The retailer chart remains the same as last week in terms of positioning, with Morrisons at the top of the chart. Asda, however, has closed the gap between them and stands less than one percentage point behind as opposed to five before. As last...

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    Nestlé pours more into water business

    2003-02-05T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé has bought Europe’s leading supplier of home and office of water coolers Powwow from Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa for 560m euros.The Swiss food giant, and global market leader in bottled water with brands such as...

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    Pop goes nestlé

    2003-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree is in talks with ITV to sponsor the next series of Pop Idol. A Nestlé Rowntree spokesman said any deal would be the "biggest UK TV sponsorship" to date, but added that reports of a £6m agreement between the company and television...

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    Nestlé scoops Swiss ice cream brand

    2003-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé has struck a deal with Swiss food group Mövenpick to buy its ice cream brand – Mövenpick – for an undisclosed price.The deal includes the Mövenpick brand for ice cream products and related ice cream businesses worldwide with the...

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    Nestlé manager

    2003-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé UK has made Paul Graddon factory production manager for its Halifax and Castleford factories, succeeding Simon Billington, who moves to a new role at Nestlé's Swiss HQ. Graddon previously worked in the beverage division as factory manager for...

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    Nestlé shakes up milk operations

    2002-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé is to close its canned milk products factory in Ashbourne, Derbyshire and is scaling down production at factories at Girvan and Dalston as part of a major shake-up of its UK milk business.Some branded products such as Simply Double...

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    Petcare bites back for Nestlé

    2002-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé has seen confectionery sales decline over the last nine months while total turnover rose 6% on the back of its $10.3bn acquisition of US petcare group Ralston Purina.To September 30, the maker of Nescafé and Häagen-Dazs ice cream said...

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    Bites: Nestlé Rowntree's Bursting Bugs; Twinings; Bakers Complete; Loyd Grossman

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree's Bursting Bugs, available in store this week, make their TV debut on August 4 in a four-week ad burst ­ part of a £5m spend on the Rowntree brand.

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    Bites: Nestle Rowntree; RH Amar; Golden Wonder's; Highland Spring

    2002-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Nestle Rowntree confectionery brand Munchies is to sponsor the Great Britian Women's Rugby league team in a deal which includes branding kits with the brand's new straplines including "Scoff me" and "Nibble me".

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    Fruity goings on as Nestlé Rowntree pushes brand into cereal

    2002-05-25T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree is taking its Rowntree fruit confectionery brand into unusual territory with two new products aimed at adults, including a cereal bar. Off the blocks on June 3, the new yogurt-coated fruit and cereal bar, called Fruitsome, and Fruit...

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    New look for After Eight as clock ticks towards Nestlé's Chr

    2002-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé Rowntree has become the latest confectionery giant to unveil its offering for retailers and consumers at Christmas. Top of the tree this time round is a revamp for perennial star performer After Eight with the boxed wafer chocolate mints...

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    Nestlé Rowntree is launching three new hanging bags under th

    2002-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Germolene has introduced new Bites & Sting Spray to its product portfolio. Consumers are to get the chance to win a Scandinavian style outdoor hot tub Jacuzzi spa in an on-pack promotion for Utterly Butterly Scandinavian style. Ashborne...

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    Nestlé working hard in cereals; Cadbury pushes cakes, biscui

    2002-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Though Morrisons remains at the top of the chart this week its domination has become less pronounced with the gap between numbers one and two being reduced by half with less than nine percentage points separating the two positions. Tesco moves up...

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    Cadbury and Nestlé head up the Easter parade on multibuy off

    2002-03-23T00:00:00Z

    The fascia chart remains stable this week with Morrisons, Safeway, Tesco and Somerfield all maintaining the same position as last week. Morrisons continues to sit at the top of the chart and has increased its lead over Safeway, at number two,...

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    Nestlé is working to help retailers

    2002-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Sir; I refer to the news report headlined Nestlé blasts independents for not passing on its promotions' (The Grocer, March 9). The thrust of my speech to the WCTA annual dinner centred on: "There has never been a greater urgency for suppliers,...

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    Nestlé blasts independents for not passing on its promotions

    2002-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Independents are proving a poor investment for Nestlé according to sales and marketing director Graham Walker. He said: "Some 30% of our confectionery is sold on promotion, but a third of independent retailers are not passing on promotional deals...

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    Nestlé buys Northern Foods lines

    2002-02-02T00:00:00Z

    Nestlé has agreed to buy Northern Foods' Ski and Munch Bunch brands, together with its yogurt facility at Cuddington in Cheshire, for £145m. It said the move was part of a refocus on the key categories of beverages, confectionery, chilled dairy,...

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    Nestlé Rowntree is offering consumers more chocolate for the

    2002-01-19T00:00:00Z

    Sugar Puffs has teamed up with UCI Cinemas for a promotion aimed at creating monster' sales for the brand. The instantly redeemable cinema ticket promotion will give consumers a free UCI Cinema ticket voucher and is incorporated on to the back of...

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    Nestlé Rowntree has put its Megabeans into a 175g hanging ba

    2002-01-12T00:00:00Z

    Frozen vegetable based foods specialist Goodlife Foods has revamped packaging and improved recipes across its range. New products are planned for later in the year. Sweet chilli is the first of a new range of marinated crayfish tails from the...