Archive of all Nestlé articles – Page 31
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Nestlé and Colgate-Palmolive get into oral care arena
Nestlé and Colgate-Palmolive have signed a multimillion pound global deal to develop oral care products aimed at the confectionery fixture. The arrangement, which starts next year with distribution of Colgate Dental Gum, gives the toothpaste...
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Nestlé and Colgate freshen up with gum deal
Nestlé and Colgate-Palmolive have agreed to jointly develop and market a range of oral care products to be sold alongside confectionery items, starting with Colgate Dental Gum in the UK.The gum – aimed to clean teeth and freshen breath –...
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Nestlé close coffee plant in Latin America
Nestlé is to end its instant coffee production in El Salvador and blamed high running costs and outdated machinery for the closure of the plant.Nestlé said it would continue to sell instant coffee in El Salvador, and buy bags of beans from...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...