Nestlé was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. It has employed around 250,000 people and has factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

It is one of the world's biggest food and Beverage Companies.

Nestle offers a variety of brands of which the most well known are Nescafe, Nestlé Kit Kat, Nestlé juices and Nestlé bottled waters.

Nestlé’s existing products grow through innovation and renovation while maintaining a balance in geographic activities and product lines.

The Company's priority is to bring the best and most relevant products to people, wherever they are, whatever their needs, throughout their lives.

In 1992, Nestlé was the first company to dare to launch a mineral water, Valvert. Today Nestlé Water is established in 130 countries and markets about 70 different brands.

In 1998, for the first time in its history, Nestlé associated its name with bottled water “Nestlé Pure Life”.

The brand was launched in Pakistan and soon appeared in Brazil, followed by Argentina, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and Mexico in 2000. In 2001, India, Jordan, and Lebanon followed, and in 2002, Egypt, Uzbekistan and the United States.

Today the Nestle Pure Life brand is present in 20 countries around the world, across all continents - Asia, Near East, South and North America and Europe.

Wherever it is to be found around the world, Nestle PURE LIFE answers some crucial consumer needs, focused on three core pillars: Trust, Quality and Service.

Nestle PURE LIFE offers an ideal balance between a healthy supply of minerals and a pleasant, refreshing taste, making it suitable for the whole family. It contains essential minerals such as:

The key factor which drove the early history of the enterprise that would become The Nestlé Company was Henri Nestlé's search for a healthy, economical alternative to breastfeeding for mothers who could not feed their infants at the breast.

Nestlé's first customer was a premature infant who could tolerate neither his mother's milk nor any of the conventional substitutes, and had been given up for lost by local physicians. People quickly recognized the value of the new product, after Nestlé's new formula saved the child's life and within a few years, Farine Lactée Nestlé was being marketed in much of Europe.

Henri Nestlé also showed early understanding of the power of branding. He had adopted his own coat of arms as a trademark; in Swiss German, Nestlé means 'little nest'. One of his agents suggested that the nest could be exchanged for the white cross of the Swiss flag. His response was firm: "I regret that I cannot allow you to change my nest for a Swiss cross .... I cannot have a different trademark in every country; anyone can make use of a cross, but no-one else may use my coat of arms."

Meanwhile, the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, founded in 1866 by Americans Charles and George Page, broadened its product line in the mid-1870s to include cheese and infant formulas. The Nestlé Company, which had been purchased from Henri Nestlé by Jules Monnerat in 1874, responded by launching a condensed milk product of its own. The two companies remained fierce competitors until their merger in 1905.

In 1882 Swiss miller Julius Maggi created a food product utilizing legumes that was quick to prepare and easy to digest. His instant pea and bean soups helped launch Maggi & Company. By the turn of the century, his company was producing not only powdered soups, but bouillon cubes, and sauces and flavorings.

Innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit have been Nestlé characteristics from the start.

In 1886, while the Page brothers in Cham were building Europe’s first condensed milk factory, for the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co., Henri Nestlé, in Vevey, was developing his infant cereal “Lactous Farina Nestlé “launched in 1867.

The two companies merged in 1905 to become the “Nestlé & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.”. The former had developed a successful long-life product from fresh milk, a highly perishable raw material, whilst Henri Nestlé had achieved international acclaim due to the remarkable qualities of his invention. Given the highly infant mortality rate, due mainly to the lack of an appropriate breast-milk substitute, his infant cereal respond to a real need.

His name and the Nestlé symbol (Nestlé means “little nest” in German) were guarantee of the consistent quality of his product, the result of painstaking scientific research.

Contacts with other leading companies that have innovative ideas led to acquisitions and diversifications.

The company expanded in 1929 through the acquisition of the,

Thus Nestlé became the heir to inventions such as Daniel Peter’s milk chocolate (1875) and Julius Maggi’s vegetable-based soups (1884) and stock cubes (1908).

Nestlé accumulated knowledge, as well as the perseverance and competence of scientists like Max Morenthaler, made possible the huge success of the Nescafe launch in 1938.

Subsequent acquisitions opened doors to new areas, such as

Others reinforced the company’s position in established areas, for example,

At the same time, reseat at Nestlé resulted in the development of new products such as

Existing products such as Nescafe, Maggi culinary products or the various dairy products have been constantly improved and adapted to current consumer life-styles.

Today, Nestlé is the world’s leading food company. Its international R&D network supports the products made in 479 factories in 81 countries.

Being a company dedicated from the start to food, Nestlé remains sensitive to culinary and eating habits, and responds to specific nutritional problems, whilst also setting and matching new trends such as growing out-of-home consumption.

In the social sector, the company has created over 1200 permanent job opportunities for the skilled, unskilled and professional manpower, apart from hundreds of contractual jobs. It has also played a remarkable role in expansion and vitalization of the dairy and livestock sector.

Another key area where the company is proud to make a contribution in the environment is by making available the processed and packaged dairy.