Nestlé has ceased its production of Marella Jubes in Australia, which is part of Allen’s confectionery line, after the brand experienced a declining consumer demand.
Nestlé International Travel Retail (NITR) has promoted its senior brand manager, Nizar Belhachmi, to the position of marketing manager, effective this month.
As big brands look to the lucrative Halloween market, Nestlé UK announces that it has launched a Smarties pack for the first time to tap into demand for spooky sweets.
Nestlé Australia has launched a limited edition KitKat Gold that contains the traditional wafer fingers covered in white-colored caramelized chocolate.
Nestlé UK and Ireland has added a salted caramel fudge variety to its KitKat Chunky range as the company rotates new flavors for the chocolate brand each year since 1999.
New promotion, "Forming Cocoa Pruners and Graders", will help cocoa farmers to manage crops, receive instruction on best practices, and plant physiology.
Nestlé New Zealand has reached a conditional agreement to sell six confectionery brands to Quadrant Private Equity to focus on its chocolate, baking and medicated lozengers.
The initiative has received over 400 start-up applications so far and launched 12 Projects to enable Nestlé to improve the environmental impact of its work by partnering with start-ups with ‘tech-for-good solutions’
Three-judge 9th Circuit panel indicates the six plaintiffs can sue the two manufacturing giants under the Alien Tort Statute for alleged child labor violations.
Candy and snacks company Hsu Fu Chi has struck a deal with China’s second largest e-commerce channel JD.com to improve its logistical efficiency by building an 'unbounded plant' in South China.
The International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) has identified 14,986 child labor cases on the cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana since 2012, but warned the reality could be a lot worse.
Ferrero is set to overhaul the recipes of Butterfinger and Crunch bars after creating a new business unit by merging its recently acquired Ferrara and Nestlé’s US candy portfolio later this year.
The National Confectioners Association (NCA) has named the most innovative product award winners of 2018 at the Sweets and Snacks Expo in Chicago (May 22-May 24, 2018).
Turkey has become Nestlé’s fastest growing market in the Middle East, Europe and North America, with the firm set to plough in TRY 100m (US$22m) to expand capacity and build new plants.
Nestlé has agreed to sell its Serbian chocolate brand Cipiripi to Paraćinka, a member of Silbo distribution group, as part of its ‘ongoing portfolio review.’
Mondelēz, Cargill, Nestlé and Tony’s Chocolonely will discuss progress and challenges in implementing Child Labor Monitoring & Remediation Systems (CLMRS) in cocoa communities at a panel during the World Cocoa Conference.
Nestlé wants to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. The company says its ‘clear announcement’ demonstrates its commitment to ‘minimise’ the impact of packaging on the environment but critics argue a more radical approach is necessary.
Nutella maker Ferrero has completed the acquisition of Nestlé’s US confectionery business, including more than 20 of its brands such as Butterfinger, BabyRuth, Crunch, and SweeTarts.
Nestlé will launch Milkybar Wowsomes exclusively in the UK and Ireland in the coming weeks with 30% less sugar than other chocolate products in its portfolio.
Nestlé has relaunched orange Smarties hexatubes in the UK and Ireland for spring after its orange Smarties giant tube received ‘overwhelming consumer response’ last year.
A California Superior Court judge has approved a settlement resolving claims over whether certain levels of lead and cadmium in chocolate require warning labels under California’s Prop 65 law.
Three major confectioners will carry a redesigned ‘Be treatwise’ label on certain products in the UK to encourage moderate consumption. Separately Nestlé is cutting sugar in its UK confectionery range.
Nestlé UK will introduce a range of ‘more premium’ KitKat Senses chocolate in three flavors: hazelnut, double chocolate and salted caramel, later this month.
Nestlé has posted flat organic sales growth in confectionery in fiscal 2017, but saw an uptick for premium brands such as Les Recettes De L’Atelier and sales in direct-to-consumer KitKat stores.
Nestlé USA faces a fresh class action lawsuit in the US for allegedly failing to disclose its chocolate brands may use cocoa from unlawful child or slave labor.
Mars plans to quit industry-funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.
Nine major cocoa and chocolate companies have committed $8.5m to an initiative aiming to prove a business case to improve the quality of education in Ivorian cocoa communities.
Nestlé Japan will become the first confectioner to launch a product with Barry Callebaut’s ruby chocolate as it plans to introduce KitKat Chocolatory Sublime Ruby.
Nestlé has sold its US candy business ($924m in 2016 sales), which includes Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Raisinets, to Nutella maker Ferrero for $2.8bn in cash.
