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Unsung Heroes: Corporate Sustainability Officers

Mark Tercek | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Conservation, Green Business, World Environment Center, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Sustainability, Nestle, Ibm, Coca-Cola, Business News
Mark Tercek

Today, the drivers of environmental action go deeper than philanthropic motives, or doing the right thing. For a growing number of companies, "going green" is now a core business strategy.

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Taste Test: Girl Scout Cookie Candy Bars

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Girl Scout Cookies, Girl Scouts, Girl Scout Candy Bars Taste Test, Nestle Crunch, Girl Scout Candy Bars, Food, Girl Scout Cookie Candy Bars, Slidepollajax, Nestle, Girl Scout Bars, Nestle Girl Scout Candy Bars, Food News

Back in February, we learned of the future existence of Girl Scout Candy Bars. Well, folks, their debut is almost here (June 1), and we've gotten a sn...

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These 10 Companies Control Basically Everything You Consume [GRAPHIC]

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Consumer-Brands, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Parent Companies, Unilever, Nestlé., Corn Flakes, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Consumer Products, Brands, P&G, Business News

It may be obvious that Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes are both made by Kellogg's, but did you know that Hot Pockets and L'Oreal share a parent company...

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Nestle To Buy Pfizer Nutrition For $11.9 Billion

Reuters | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Pfizer, Mergers and Acquisitions, Pfizer Nutrition, Nestle, Reuters, Business News

* Swiss group beats out rival Danone for Pfizer unit * Group pays almost 5 times unit's expected 2012 sales ...

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D.M. Levine

Nestle's Baby Boom

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Baby Formula, Pfizer, Chinese Baby Formula, Baby Boom, Asia, Baby Food, Nestle, Chinese Consumers, China, Asian Consumers, Deals, Business News

Nestle might soon be be feeding a lot more babies. The world's largest food and nutrition company is in final talks to buy Pfizer's infant nutriti...

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Nestlé Uses Avalanche Research To Improve Its Ice Cream

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Nestle Avalanche Ice Cream, New Ice Cream Nestle, Video, Nestle Avalanche Study, Ice Cream Nestle, Nestle Ice Cream, Nestle Avalanche, Nestle, Nestle Ice Cream Study, Food Industry, Food News

Forget the tempest in the teapot. Thanks to Nestle, you'll soon be able to taste the avalanche in the ice cream cup. The Swiss company has been us...

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MF Global's 10 Highest-Profile Former Clients

Reuters | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Hsbc, Bimbo Foods, Hormel, Coca-Cola, Jon Corzine, Mf Global Collapse, Icahn, Video, Conocophillips, Reuters, MF Global, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch, Slidepollajax, Nestle, Business News

March 26 (Reuters) - ConocoPhillips, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, Coca Cola, Dominion Resources and giant energy trader Mercuria were among high-p...

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People Still Crave This Even At High Prices

Reuters | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Video, Commodity Prices, Reuters, Soda, Business News, Bottled Water Industry, Bottled Water Prices, Beverages, Nestle, Bottled Water, Business News

(Adds details, comments on tea) By Martinne Geller and Carey Gillam CHICAGO, March 12 (Reuters) - Consumers are shunning...

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World's Biggest Food Company Cuts Off Entire Country

Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Nestle Supply Azerbaijan, Video, Azerbaijan, Nestle Severs Ties Azerbaijan, Nestle, Nestle Azerbaijan, Food News

Nestle, the world's largest food company, has severed all trade ties with the country of Azerbaijan. The company says it made this decision due to sup...

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Nestle Eliminates Artificial Ingredients In Candies

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Artificial Ingredients, Candy, Video, Nestle Confectionery, Nestle Candy, Nestle Artificial Ingredients, Nestle Candy Artificial Flavors, Nestle UK, Confectionery Market UK, Candy UK, Nestle, Food News

Nestle, the world's biggest food company, just announced that it would has removed all artificial ingredients from the candy it sells in the U.K. That...

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Starbucks Looking To 'Heat Up The Competition'

Reuters | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: German Newspaper, Video, Instant Coffee, Reuters, Starbucks Coffee, Nespresso, Financial Times Deutschland, Europe, Coffee, Nestle, Business News

FRANKFURT, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Starbucks Corp is planning to strengthen its presence in Europe and grab market share from Switzerland's N...

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Nestle Says 2011 Was Good, But 2012 May Not Be

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Video, Nestle Profits, Food Industry Profits, Nestle Earnings Call, Nestle q4 Earnings Call, Nestle Earnings Call q4 2011, Nestle Revenue, Nestle 2011 Results, Nestle, Food Industry, Food News

GENEVA -- Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drinks maker, managed to brush aside the impact of a soaring domestic currency to post a solid incre...

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Ecosystem Economics: Navigating the Water-Food-Energy Nexus

Andrew Winston | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Coca-Cola, Water Footprint, Agriculture, Energy-Water-Nexus, Texas Drought, Water Shortage, Sabmiller, Water Resources Group, Nestle, World Economic Forum, Ifc, Green News
Andrew Winston

If a community runs out of water, it affects everyone in the area, even companies that were good stewards of the resource. The collective nature of these resources means that everyone shares both the responsibilities for their protection and the risks of their scarcity.

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Nestle's New Brand Aims To Find Everyone's 'Chocolate Personality'

Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Maison Cailler, Luxury Chocolate, Video, High-End Chocolate, Tasting Chocolates, Chocolate Personality, Nestle, Chocolate, Food News

The market for high-end chocolate is already pretty saturated -- it seems that every other day some Brooklyn dweller has travelled to the equator, dis...

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Nestle Announces Big Layoffs

Chatsworth, CA Patch | Saul Daniels | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Big Food, Nestle Factory Layoffs, Nestle Lays Off Employees, Nestle Layoffs, Nestle Chatsworth, Nestle, Recession, Nestle Frozen Foods, Food News

Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And Goodbye! Nestlé USA will lay off 103 Chatsworth employees on February 1, according to the San Fernando Valley...

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The Best (And Worst) Brands Of Hot Chocolate

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Cooking Taste Test, Taste Test, Chocolate, Hot Cocoa, Hot Chocolate, Godiva, Cocoa, Nestle, KitchenDaily News

Hot chocolate mixes can really run the gamut in quality -- there are the anemic powdered-milk-filled paper packets, the mid-range canisters flavored w...

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Nestle, Labor Nonprofit To Investigate Child Labor On Cocoa Farms

AP | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Chococlate Child Labor, Cocoa Farms Child Labor, Nestle, Ivory Coast Child Labor, Nestle Child Labor, Video, Impact News

VEVEY, Switzerland -- The world's biggest food company, Nestle SA, says it will work with a nonprofit group to investigate child labor on cocoa farms ...

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From Coffee To Breasts: Swiss Company Invests In Augmentation Gel

Die Welt/Worldcrunch | Judith Wittwer | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Breast Augmentation, Switzerland, Plastic Surgery, Breast Implants, Nestle Coffee, Nestle Foods, Nestle, World News

All she wanted was to have her "old" boobs back -- the way they were before the birth of her two children. But in opting for breast augmentation Lea B...

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Nestle Expands In China With Large Stake In Candymaker

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Kraft Foods, Povos, Yinlu Foods Group, Danone, Hsu Fu Chi International, Numico, Kitkat, Emerging Markets, Credit Suisse, Philips, Cadbury, Unilever, Mars Inc, Nescafe, Wrigley, Nestle, Kepler Capital Markets, China, Business News

SINGAPORE/ZURICH (Saeed Azhar and Silke Koltrowitz) - Nestle, the world's largest food company, is paying a hefty $1.7 billion for a 60 percent st...

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Nestle Unveils The Nespresso Of Baby Milk

Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Nestle Baby Milk, Baby Milk, Nespresso, Nespresso Baby Milk, Nestle, Food News

VERS-CHEZ-LES-BLANC, Switzerland, May 25 (Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.VX), on Wednesday launched its BabyNes baby milk dispenser using a system simila...

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Valentine's Chocolate Please, Hold the Child Labor

Regina Varolli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Valentine's Day Chocolate, Valentine's Day Gifts, Child Labor, Fair Trade Chocolate, Miki Mistrati, Human Trafficking, Fair Trade USA, Child Trafficking, The Dark Side of Chocolate, Chocolate, Cacao Plantations, International Labor Rights Forum, Cocoa Plantations, U. Roberto Romano, Project Hope and Fairness, Slave Labor, Global Cocoa Project, Fair Trade Certified, Child Labor in Chocolate, Green & Black's Organic, Cocoa, Hershey, M&M Mars, Nestle, Food News
Regina Varolli

The worst forms of child labor, even children that have been trafficked into slavery, are prevalent in the growing and harvesting of cacao in West Africa.

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BLOGWATCH> Less Is More: Packaging Goes Minimal On Antrepo

bumbumbum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nesquik, Advertising, Product Design, Graphic Design, Nutella, Design, Packaging, Mr. Muscle, Red Bull, Product Redesign, Schweppes, Toffifee, Nestle, Rebranding, Antrepo, Arts News

Loving this superb project from Antrepo Studio. The idea behind is to create minimalist re-designs of well-known international brand packages. This ju...

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From Old Spice to Levitra, Social Media Is the Place to Build Brands

Inder Sidhu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Old Spice, Social Media, Doing Both, Cisco, Branding, I'm on a Horse, Inder Sidhu, Isaiah Mustafa, Facebook, Nestle, P&G, Business News
Inder Sidhu

First it took phosphates out of detergents, now Proctor & Gamble is taking money out of soap operas.

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Fiji Water: When Environment, Politics, and Economics Collide Over Bottled Water

Peter H. Gleick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bottled Water Industry, Fiji Water, Nestle, Fiji, Bottled Water, Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water, Green News
Peter H. Gleick

This week, Fiji Water threatened to close their water bottling plant in Fiji -- not because they object to the country's military regime, but because the government announced that they intend to increase the business tax on bottled water.

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Green News Report: November 16, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Fast Food, Nasa, Green Jobs, 2010 Elections, Michael Mann, United Nations, Epa, Lame Duck Session, Clean Energy, Green News Report, John Rockefeller, Climategate, Water Crisis, Pipeline, Gazprom, Offshore Drilling, Phil Jones, cop16, Haiti Earthquake, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gases, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Bluefin Tuna, Global Warming, Bp, Copenhagen 2009, Carbon Emissions, Enron, Barack Obama, John Shimkus, Arctic, Energy Efficiency, Rand Paul, BRAD BLOG, Haiti, Green News, Harry Reid, Sustainability, Climate Legislation, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Nestle, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The so-cal...

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