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Net profit at Nestle fell to 8.5 billion francs last year - disappointing the markets

Nestle scales back its growth targets

Nestle's new chief executive has scrapped the food company's long-standing sales target as it reported disappointing annual results, adopting a more cautious tone in an uncertain environment.

Business • 16 Feb 17

Nestle is the maker of Kitkat and other chocolate bars

Sugar reduction that won't leave a bitter taste

Nestle said it had devised a new technology that has the potential to reduce sugar in some of its confectionery products by up to 40% without affecting the taste.

News • 01 Dec 16

Nestle said its researchers had found a way to structure sugar differently

Nestle's technology to reduce sugar in chocolate

Nestle, the world's largest packaged food group, said it had made a scientific breakthrough that has the potential to reduce sugar in its confectionary products by up to 40%.

Business • 01 Dec 16

Chile's government accuses the companies of breaching the law by using children's characters on packets of various products classed as 'high in' certain unhealthy ingredients

Chile sues Nestle, Kellogg's in anti-obesity drive

Chilean authorities are suing the giant breakfast cereal-makers Nestle and Kelloggs for putting children's cartoon characters on packets of fattening food in breach of an anti-obesity law, officials have said.

Business • 22 Nov 16

Swiss food giant Nestle as cut its outlook for the year

Nestle's nine month organic growth disappoints

Nestle became the latest company to be hit by the global slowdown affecting food manufacturers after posting its weakest underlying sales growth in more than a decade.

Business • 20 Oct 16

The group pointed to a weak performance in China, where the turnaround of its Yinlu peanut milk business was taking time

Nestlé blames pricing pressures for slowing growth

Nestlé, the world's biggest food company, has reported a slowdown in underlying sales growth due to pricing pressures but said it expected an improvement over the rest of the year.

Business • 18 Aug 16

Nestle is standing by its long-term annual sales growth target of 5-6%

Nestle seeks cost savings amid tough markets

Nestle has announced new cost savings as part of efforts to cope with increasing competition and to make its sprawling business more efficient.

Business • 26 May 16

Nestle said it managed to gain market share in most of its categories and businesses in the first quarter of the year

Nestle's Q1 growth beats expectations

Food group Nestle today confirmed its full-year outlook after first-quarter underlying sales growth of 3.9% beat expectations, driven mostly by growth in volumes rather than pricing.

Business • 14 Apr 16

Nestle's net profit fell more than expected last year, by over a third, to 9.1 billion Swiss francs

Nestle sales growth misses expectations

Food group Nestle missed forecasts with a 4.2% rise in annual underlying sales and predicted a similar outcome this year.

Business • 18 Feb 16

The world's largest packaged food firm's sales dropped 2.1% to 64.9 billion Swiss francs in the nine months to September

Nestle cuts full-year outlook after sales miss

Food giant Nestle today lowered its full-year outlook as a Maggi noodle scandal continued to drag down third-quarter sales.

Business • 16 Oct 15

Nestle moving to the faster-growing, more profitable medical field

Nestle pushes further into medicine area

Nestle has taken a further step into the medicine business by signing a research collaboration agreement with a Swiss biotech company to develop an Alzheimer's disease diagnostic test.

Business • 23 Sep 15

Nestle today reported growth of 2.5% in developed markets and 6.7% in emerging markets

Nestle first quarter sales up more than expected

Nestle, the world's leading packaged food maker, today reported slightly better than expected first-quarter sales.

Business • 17 Apr 15

Nestle CEO Paul Bulcke at the 2014 results press conference in Vevey, Switzerland

Nestlé makes €13.4bn profit despite drop in sales

The world's leading food industry group Nestlé has posted a soaring net profit for 2014, boosted by the sell-off of its stake in French cosmetics group L'Oreal.

Business • 19 Feb 15

France's competition authority had put pressure on Nestle not to block rivals

Nestle strikes competition deal over Nespresso

Nestle has agreed to measures designed to make it easier for rival companies to produce capsules compatible with Nespresso-branded coffee makers.

Business • 17 Apr 14

Share deal will boost French cosmetics group's earnings per share by more than 5%

L'Oreal to buy 8% of its shares from Nestle

L'Oreal will buy 8% of its capital for €6.5 billion from Swiss consumer goods group Nestle.

Business • 11 Feb 14

Nestle to sell its 10% stake in Swiss fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan

Nestle to sell stake in Givaudan

Nestle is selling its 10% stake in Swiss fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan.

Business • 06 Dec 13

Nestle seeing weak markets in Europe and Asia

Nestle sales growth misses estimates

Nestle said still-weak emerging market demand and falling prices for its products in Europe slowed underlying sales growth to 4.4% in the first nine months of the year from 6.1% the same time last year.

Business • 17 Oct 13

Nestle expects underlying sales growth of 5% for the rest of the year

Nestle posts 3.7% rise in first half profits

Swiss food and drinks giant Nestle posted a 3.7% rise in first-half profits and strong sales today

Business • 08 Aug 13

The Kit Kat Chunky Collection Giant Egg is one of the products recalled

Nestlé recalls products over plastic contamination

Nestlé UK and Ireland is recalling some of its Kit Kat chocolate range after small pieces of plastic were found in some of the products.

News • 23 Mar 13

Professor Alan Reilly dismissed Iceland's claims that the tests were carried out in unaccredited laboratories

FSAI says it is confident in its meat testing

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has said it is confident in its meat testing and that attempts to undermine the work of its laboratories was disingenuous, dishonest and untruthful.

News • 19 Feb 13

Nestle posts 11% increase in third quarter sales

Buoyed by growth in emerging markets, Swiss food and drink giant Nestle has posted an 11% increase in sales for the first nine months of 2012.

Business • 18 Oct 12

Nestle buys Pfizer Nutrition for $11.85 billion

Swiss food giant Nestle said today it has agreed to pay $11.85 billion to acquire infant food maker Pfizer Nutrition.

Business • 23 Apr 12

Nestle posts 7.2% first quarter growth

The world's biggest food company Nestle today posted 2012 first quarter sales growth of 7.2% on the back of strong demand in emerging markets.

Business • 20 Apr 12

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