Sentences with phrase «swiss food giant»

Swiss food giant Nestle said the new tool could contribute to better oversight of suppliers of raw materials such as meat, soy and palm oil.

Swiss food giant Nestlé plans to step up its involvement in food products designed to prevent disease and improve health.

Ex-UNICEF head Ann Veneman has been appointed to the Nestle board, sparking debate over the Swiss food giant's compliance with WHO standards on baby milk marketing.

April 17 (Reuters)- Drugmaker Pfizer Inc is close to a deal to sell its infant nutrition business to Swiss food giant Nestle SA for at least $ 9 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The head of French dairy food company Yoplait has said in a newspaper interview that Swiss food giant Nestle would make an «ideal» partner, with major investment planned in China and India.

The country has not had a processing facility since 2009, when Swiss food giant, Nestlé, suspended milk purchases under pressure from international human rights groups.

But the Swiss food giant has been pulled up by health campaigners on numerous occasions in the past for its chocolate milk brand Nesquik.

LONDON / FRANKFURT (Reuters)- Swiss food giant Nestle and the private equity owners of German drug firm Stada are both preparing tentative bids for Merck KgaA's consumer health unit, several sources told Reuters.

BERLIN, April 24 Beiersdorf, the maker of Nivea and other skin care products, said on Tuesday it has appointed Dessi Temperley, head of investor relations at Swiss food giant Nestle, as its new finance chief.

Among the most influential pioneers have been illycaffe, an Italian family firm based in Trieste, and Nespresso, a division of Nestlé, a Swiss food giant.

BERLIN Beiersdorf, the maker of Nivea and other skin care products, said on Tuesday it has appointed Dessi Temperley, head of investor relations at Swiss food giant Nestle, as its new finance chief.

(Referring to Nestle, the Swiss food giant that is one of the largest companies in the world and has a stable of products that generate billions upon billions of dollars in nearly every country, no matter how terrible things get.

One of the most famous corporate boycotts was launched against Nestle in 1977 because of the Swiss food giant's marketing of infant formula in low - income countries - a practice which arguably continues today.

The Swiss food giant saw organic growth of 2.4 percent for the year, at the «low end» of expectations, due to a slower growth of 1.9 percent in their fourth quarter, according to the company's press release.

The Swiss food giant posted net income of 7.2 billion Swiss francs ($ 7.76 billion), versus 9.652 billion francs expected by analysts in a Reuters poll.

Not exact matches

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday gave Swiss drug giant Novartis a second approval for its pioneering CAR - T cancer therapy, which uses patients» own immune cells (re-engineered outside the body and then replicated) to destroy blood cancers.

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

Meal - delivery startup Freshly has raised $ 77 million in new funds, financing that was led by Swiss - based food giant Nestle.

Swiss food group Nestlé this week announced that it has entered into an agreement to combine Nestlé's US ice cream business with US ice cream giant Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.

Several months ago, Nespresso, a division of the giant Swiss multinational food corporation Nestlé, announced a major sustainability initiative they are calling Ecolaboration.

In 2009, Nespresso, the premium capsule coffee unit of the giant Swiss multinational food corporation Nestlé, announced a sustainability initiative they called Ecolaboration.

The Swiss transnational food and drink giant says that excluding the US confectionery business which was divested at the end of March, organic growth was 2.9 percent.

Novartis, the giant Swiss - based pharmaceutical corporation, is throwing its full weight behind the functional food movement.

But they have also accused the giant Swiss - based food conglomerate of launching a smear campaign against them.