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Food
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Sushi Kit Kats for new Nestle Japan store

Nestle Japan will open its first stand-alone Kit Kat Chocolatory store in Tokyo’s Ginza district on February 2 – and marking the occasion with gifts of special sushi Kit Kats. Since the first Kit Kat Chocolatory opened in January 2014 as a specialty store…

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Fashion
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Nestle Japan strikes a musical note

Nestle Japan has extended its offering from coffee to music as part of a promotional event for its Nescafe Gold Blend Barista instant coffee. It has launched a wooden musical instrument, the “Pythagorean”, which plays Christmas melodies. It is the only Rube…

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Food
9 min read

How Nestle plans to grow in travel retail

Nestle’s travel retail unit is a US$100m-plus business, which generates the lion’s share of its revenue from confectionery. Stewart Dryburgh, who heads the company’s travel retail business, says the sector, while a small part of the Nestle empire, presents a…

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E-Tailing
2 min read

Nestlé aims to boost e-commerce contribution to revenue

Nestlé (Malaysia) Bhd expects to increase its e-commerce contribution to its revenue from the existing one per cent to 10 per cent within the next three to four years. This 10 per cent, according to its managing director, Alois Hofbauer would translate to…

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Food
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Thai police bust fake instant Nestle coffee factory

Thai police have busted a fake Nestle instant coffee factory in Bangkok’s northern suburbs. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police descended on a business premises in Pathum Thani on Thursday armed with a search warrant. Inside they found 2 million THB worth…

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Food
3 min read

Nestle confirms labor abuse among its Thai seafood suppliers

Nestle SA, among the biggest food companies in the world, launched the investigation in December 2014, after reports from news outlets and nongovernmental organizations tied brutal and largely unregulated working conditions to their shrimp, prawns and Purina…

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Food
1 min read

Japan Kit Kat store wraps chocolate in gold

The Japan Kit Kat store Chocolatory is selling the ultimate indulgence this Christmas: chocolate bars wrapped in real gold. And yes – they’re safe to eat… which essentially means consumers will quite literally end up flushing gold down the toilet. Nestle’s…

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Food
2 min read

Maggi clears lab tests, to begin manufacturing noodles soon

Nestle India, maker of the country’s highly popular Maggi, on Friday announced all samples of recently-banned instant noodles have cleared the tests conducted by three laboratories as mandated by the Bombay High Court. The move will now allow Maggi to be back…

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General
2 min read

Nestlé warns against China’s dreary economy

Nestlé just became the fourth major Western brand in the past two weeks to report dreary Chinese sales during the year so far. According to the Swiss food and drink colossus, sales in the Asia, Oceania, and sub-Saharan Africa regions fell by 3.1%. A “slower…