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Nestlé / Ice Mountain Seeking The Right to Pollute With NO Accountability
Nestle wants to carve out a legal exception so it and other polluters can destroy the air, water, and natural resources of the state, like wetlands and headwaters of streams, on their own property, by making environmental laws unconstitutional such as the protections currently provided by MEPA. When enacted in 1970 under the leadership of the West Michigan Environmental Action Council, MEPA was hailed nationwide as a monumental accomplishment in the effort to protect the environment through citizen action. STORY DEVELOPING...

Rural Communities Exploited by Nestlé
Across the country, multinational corporations are targeting hundreds of rural communities to gain control of their most precious resource. By strong-arming small towns with limited economic means, these corporations are part of a growing trend to privatize public water supplies for economic gain in the ballooning bottled water industry. With sales of over $35 billion worldwide in the bottled water market, corporations are doing whatever it takes to buy up pristine springs in some of our country's most beautiful places. While the companies reap the profits, the local communities and the environment are paying the price. One of the biggest and most voracious of the water gobblers is Nestlé, which controls one-third of the U.S. market and sells 70 different brand names -- such as Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Perrier, Poland Spring and Ice Mountain. Nestlé is not really the best model of a parent corporation. For over 20 years, it has faced pressure for its aggressive marketing of infant formula in countries with little clean water, which has led to a reduction in breastfeeding and increased risk for infants. According to Global Exchange, the policy "has cost the lives of over 1.5 million infants around the world. Nestlé's irresponsible attitude towards children doesn't end there. As a leading exporter of cocoa from the Ivory Coast, Nestlé has also been implicated in the ongoing abuse and torture of child cocoa laborers." And Nestlé's own contribution to the local economy in McCloud is questionable. In Mecosta County, Mich., where Nestlé opened a spring water bottling plant a few years ago, locals have yet to see the promised economic rewards.

Nestle to buy baby food giant Gerber
ZURICH: Nestle SA, the world’s largest food company, will buy US baby-food giant Gerber from Novartis AG for $5.5 billion in cash

Brazil rejects Nestle's bid to keep unit
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- In a fresh setback for efforts by Nestle SA to keep control of Brazilian chocolate producer Garoto, Brazil's antitrust regulator said Friday it has rejected a request by the Swiss foodmaker to reconsider a decision to strip the company of its Brazilian unit.

Nestle Profits Fell 18 Percent in 2003
Nestle SA, the world's biggest food company, said its profit skidded 18 percent in 2003

Nestle Full Year Net Profit Down 18%
Switzerland-based Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and beverages company, Thursday reported a bigger-than-expected 18% drop

Jobs lost as Nestle shuts factory
Nestle has announced it is to close a factory in Staverton near Trowbridge with the loss of 155 jobs.

Nestle dealt blow in Ice Mountain case
The Nestle-owned Ice Mountain Spring Water Co, which was told to stop drawing water from underground wells, has had its request for a retrial denied.

There's no spring in Poland? Then don't drink the (bottled) water
You can almost hear Linda Richman saying it on a Saturday Night Live "Coffee Talk" sketch: "Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic. Neither ice nor a mountain is involved in the production of Ice Mountain water.

Nestle Sued over GM Product
The controversy over genetically modified foods is set to heat up in China due to a lawsuit filed in Shanghai against Nestle and a local supermarket.

Bottlers sue state over law on labels
A manufacturer's group has filed a lawsuit to block a law that would require bottled water labels to identify the water's source.

Poland Spring makes deal on lawsuit
Poland Spring Water Co. has negotiated a proposed settlement for a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company's bottled water does not come from a spring and is not completely safe.

Nestle Sued for Falsely Advertising 'Poland Spring' Water
In a class-action lawsuit filed today, consumers claim that Nestle Waters North America (Nestle), a subsidiary of Nestle S.A. (OTC:NSRGF.PK), falsely advertises its top-selling Poland Spring brand bottled water. The suit alleges Nestle uses heavily treated water taken from common ground water sources when bottling Poland Spring, but then labels the bottles as spring water and charges consumers a premium price for supposedly higher quality water.

Nestle is sued for false claims about bottled water
Food giant Nestle has duped Americans who buy Poland Spring bottled water into thinking it comes from a lush spring tucked deep in the woods of Maine, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday. Instead, most of the sources for Poland Spring are either surrounded by asphalt parking lots or potentially dangerous contamination, according to the lawsuit filed against a subsidiary of Swiss-based Nestle SA.

Dreyer's melts from heated concerns with Nestle deal
Federal regulators moved in March to place an injunction against a proposed deal for Nestlé to buy Dreyer's. Regulators said the $2.4 billion deal would create a global oligarchy on premium ice creams.

Nestle plans to close site in Lathrop
Nestle USA Inc., one of the city's bright gems and earliest tenants of the Crossroads business park, is shutting its doors after 12 years.

Water Thieves Sponsor Florida Water Conference
Florida springs conference Feb. 4th & 5th being sponsored by Nestle Waters Group.

Nestle Nibbles On Expansion
With a AAA credit rating of its own and a strong Swiss franc against the dollar are letting Nestlé go on an acquisition binge in the United States.

Nestle's Christmas Gift to Ethiopia
Faced with a "mounting public relations disaster" over its attempt to sue the famine-stricken country of Ethiopia for $6 million ... Nestle has had lots of opportunities to back down over the last year. Sadly it has taken Oxfam and the Ethiopian government exposing them to public outrage..."

Nestle Should be Helping Ethiopia, Not Penalising its People
“ Nestle’s attempt to exact this pound of flesh from one of the poorest countries in the world is incomprehensible. The company has enormous profits, while Ethiopia is deep in debt.

Ethiopia vs. Nestle
There is often shock bordering on outrage in the rich First World, when, in spite of the grants and aids they give, many people in the Third World question their motives and commitment. Maybe the behavior of Swiss chocolate maker Nestle will help them understand why, on occasions, they are regarded as insincere, even hateful.

How can multinationals balance ethics with profits?
The world's biggest food corporation has been condemned for wrangling with Ethiopia for a $6m compensation payment.

First Milk to take over 460 Nestle producers
First Milk, the farmer-owned co-operative with 4000 members throughout Britain and a throughput of more than 2.2 billion litres, is to join forces with Nestlé in sourcing milk from 460 farmers

Nestle Office Trashed in Thialand
Corporate Lies About Genetic Engineering Feeding The World Aren't Being Believed By Those In The Most Hungry Countries, Either

Pfizer Receives Bid for Its Candy Unit
Pfizer Inc. got an offers from Nestle for its Adams candy business, which may fetch more than $4 billion, sources said.

Nestle acquires part of French water supplier
Nestle Waters has acquired 33 percent of Saphir, France's fourth largest home and office delivery bottled water supplier, which sells the Opalia brand.

Perrier foes apparently get wish
The high-capacity well permits held by Nestle Waters will expire Friday and the company doesn't have any current plans to reapply. "We are obviously not using them, so we are letting the permits lapse," Lynn Morgan, public relations for Nestle (formerly Perrier Group of America), said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. "During our search for a plant in the Midwest we looked at Wisconsin and at Big Spring," Morgan said. "Nestle Waters went to Michigan. The plant there is up and running and doing well, so our site search has been fulfilled."

Perrier pullout praised
The Perrier Group of America, (AKA Nestle Waters) had sought to locate a water bottling plant at Big Spring in the town of Haven, just over the line into Columbia County. Instead, the company will focus on the plant it opened last May in Michigan, said Lynn Morgan, a spokeswoman for Nestle.

Meet the everyday people who brick-walled Perrier
A minor revolution has taken place here in the heart of rural Wisconsin.
indentThe little old ladies (and their men) got mad. Drive around the block, over the bridge, and past the clapboard rural church, and you'll see signs telling Perrier, part of the multinational Nestle corporation, to go away.

Town saved as Hershey sale called off
The residents of Hershey, Pennsylvania, were today celebrating a sweet victory after its owners buckled to local opposition and called off the sale of the company.

Protesters target Perrier comedy awards
Protesters are expected to picket one of Britain's top comedy awards over its sponsor's marketing tactics. Supporters of the Nestle Boycott group will demonstrate outside the Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and are also holding an alternative ceremony at another city venue.

Fundraising candy sold
Nestle USA has agreed to sell its Kathryn Beich candy fundraising operation to New York-based Lincolnshire Equity Fund II LP. Bloomington, Ill.-based Kathryn Beich is one of the nation's oldest and largest fundraising firms. Schools, youth groups and sports leagues sells its products to raise money for their activities and projects.

Nestle Buys Chef America for $2.6 Billion
Swiss food giant Nestle said on Tuesday it will buy privately-held Chef America Inc. for $2.6 billion in cash. Chef America, based in Colorado is best known for its Hot Pockets frozen sandwiches for use in microwaves, and other snacks such as Lean Pockets, Pizza Minis and Toaster Melts.

Fight for right to sell Hershey Foods simmers in court
The attorneys said that granting Attorney General Mike Fisher's request for a temporary injunction against a sale could cause "gross and severe harm and injury" to the process of exploring a sale. They said it could send the stock price into a tailspin, damaging shareholders.

Hershey Owners Want Sale Finished
Attorneys for the majority owner of Hershey Foods Corp. told a Pennsylvania court on Monday that the attorney general's office overstepped its legal bounds in trying to halt a potential sale of the nation's largest candymaker.

In Land of Kisses, a Slap in the Face
More than 50 years after his death, it's still hard to tell whether Milton Hershey built a town to support his chocolate factory, or a chocolate factory to support his town. Now, as the Hershey Foods Corporation is offered for sale to the highest bidder, it's more than the townspeople who are upset. All across the nation, people are wondering what will happen to a classic American town that serves not just as a tourist attraction, but a model of civic engagement.

Nestle Eyes KitKat Regardless of Hershey
Nestle, the worlds largest food group, believes it will walk away with lucrative U.S. rights to its KitKat brand whether or not it wins a takeover battle for American chocolate icon Hershey because of a deal dating back to 1970.

Nestlé Offers Hershey Kiss
The growing hubbub surrounding the potential sale of Hershey -- now possibly to Switzerland's Nestlé -- is enough to worry chocolate lovers throughout the U.S. as much as the threat of a looming Major League players' strike gnaws at diehard baseball fans. When you're talking about Hershey, you're talking about the addiction of choice for millions of us. Not to sound jingoistic, but it would just seem un-American for the company to have its headquarters overseas. To all the parties involved, please exercise caution and a little bit of reason.

Nestlé offers $11.5B for Hershey
Switzerland-based food giant Nestlé is offering about $11.5 billion, or $82 a share, to buy candymaker Hershey Foods, according to people familiar with the situation.

Nestle reported to have bid for Hershey Foods, Nestle declines comment
Nestle, whose brands include Crunch candy bars, Taster's Choice coffee and Perrier water, declined to comment on the report, which appeared in Monday's editions of USA Today.

Court battle continues over plan to sell 108-year-old Hershey Foods
Attorneys for the majority owner of Hershey Foods Corp. told a Pennsylvania court on Monday that the attorney general’s office overstepped its legal bounds in trying to halt a potential sale of the nation’s largest candymaker.

Hershey sale impacts Pennsylvania governor's race
Three weeks ago, trustees at Hershey Trust Co. stunned residents of Hershey, Pennsylvania, by announcing plans to sell Hershey Foods Corp. (HSY) in a deal that could fetch up to $12 billion, as part of a diversification program. The proposed sale of famed candy maker has become a key issue in the Pennsylvania governor's race.

Nestle takes a swipe at British chocolate
Nestle, the Swiss multinational that makes KitKat, has likened British chocolate to cheap 1980s wine as it prepares for its biggest chocolate launch.

Nestle Interested in Some Novartis Brands
While some firms have been keeping a low profile during the current economic downturn, cash-rich Nestle, the world's largest food group, has been on a buying spree and is mentioned as a possible bidder whenever a business comes up for sale in the fast consolidating food sector.

Nestle, Hershey work on sweet deal
The Pennsylvania-based chocolatier, known for its eponymous bars and Kisses, made waves through the food community earlier in the week when rumors began circulating that its majority controller, the Milton Hershey School Trust, was looking to sell. The trust confirmed the rumors Thursday with a statement acknowledging it was considering a full sale of the company. Nestle, currently third in the market, quickly emerged as a front-runner in a deal that could run as high as $14 billion.

EU OKs L'Oreal, Nestle Joint Venture
European regulators Monday cleared Swiss Food group Nestle SA's joint venture with French cosmetics giant L'Oreal to develop dietary supplements intended to improve the appearance of hair, nails and skin.

Nestle mulls coffee plant expansion
Nestle Cote d'Ivoire hopes to double the capacity of its soluble coffee factory in the West African nation to produce 24,000 tonnes eventually, financial director Virginie Medafe said.

Nestle to open new R&D centre
The research arm of the Nestle Group has said that in 2003 it will open its global culinary development and technology centre in Singen, Southern Germany.

Like water for content
If people are prepared to pay a premium for bottled water, there is no reason to suggest they will not fork out for internet content

Nestle Taps Brann for Beverage Unit
Brann Worldwide has been hired by Nestle for marketing the company's beverage division.

Work starting on old Nestle site
Norwich's former chocolate factory will melt away within nine months, leaving thousands of former workers with nothing but memories

Coke takes water war to Nestle's backyard
U.S. beverages group Coca-Cola Co on Tuesday took the global bottled water battle into the backyard of the world's biggest food group Nestle (NESZn) by buying the Swiss Valser brand and bottling activities.

Nestle faces court action over worker's death
Nestle is to be prosecuted for alleged safety breaches in an incident where a worker was electrocuted and killed.

Chocolate makers reject toxic chemicals claim
Leading chocolate makers have rejected claims that their products contain dangerously high levels of cadium and lead. The American Environmental Safety Institute has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles. Superior Court. It would force chocolate makers, such as Nestle, either to reduce levels of toxic metals in their products or provide warnings to consumers.

Nestle to Ditch up to 70 Dairy Farmers
Giant Nestlé is scrapping contracts with up to 70 Cumbrian dairy farmers - some of whom have recently restocked...

Green Valleys Association takes lead in watershed preservation
We are not afraid and we will go after you. That's what distinguishes Green Valleys. We are willing to fight for the environment."

Nestle to close 4 factories in Europe
The world's biggest food maker is closing plants in Poland, Ireland and the Czech Republic this year, spokesman Francois Perroud said. He declined to say which units may be sold.

Nestle Eyes Water
Swiss food giant Nestle is about to announce the purchase of Saint Springs, a bottled water brand that accounts for 5 percent of the bottled water market in Moscow and St. Petersburg. A source close to the deal said last week that Nestle was prepared to pay about $50 million for the trademark. Saint Springs' turnover is estimated at about $20 million per year.

Nestle to close 4 factories in Europe
The world's biggest food maker is closing plants in Poland, Ireland and the Czech Republic this year, spokesman Francois Perroud said. He declined to say which units may be sold. The Vevey-based company, which also makes Nescafe and Friskies pet food, said this month it will sell, close or restructure 16 factories in Europe employing 2,400 people.

Philippine Workers Strike Nestlé to Change Their Nation
But after spending only a few weeks with the Magnolia-Nestle workers in metro-Manila, I learned that their boycott was not simply about your decision whether or not to buy that late night Nestle's crunch bar. It's even more than worker solidarity. "The Nestle boycott is part of a larger struggle"...

Nestle Dumps Waste
The Utah Solid and Hazardous Waste Board would allow 6,000 gallons of hazardous waste generated by Nestle at Springville Utah to be dumped on cropland in South Cedar Valley. The waste is accumulated via floor drains at the Nestle plant. The experiment will examine the effect of waste on crops.

L'Oreal, Nestle Form Joint Venture
L'Oreal and Nestle Tuesday announced the creation of a joint company called Laboratoires Inneov that will develop the market for cosmetic-nutritional supplements on a global basis. The partnership represents the first time that the cosmetic and food industries have joined together to enter this fast-growing market.

Factory Goes Nuts
Nestle took its strawberry and cream Polo brand, which had been made in Leicester, to a plant in the Czech republic, where costs are lower. Workers had been worried about their future for four years with Nestle.

Perrier to build third bottling plant in the US
Perrier Group of America has recently begun construction on a new bottled water plant in Hawkins, Texas. Once completed the site will be home to the company's third bottling plant in the US. Construction management services are being performed by the Haskell Company of Florida. The company presently has two other bottling plants, one of which has been recently sited in Michigan after the company abandoned plans to build in Wisconsin. Perrier Group of America is a subsidiary of Paris-based Perrier Vittel, which had annual revenues exceeding $1.6 billion last year in the US bottled water market.

Nestle to take over Dreyer's
The $2.4 billion transaction will allow the Swiss conglomerate to control all of California-based Dreyer's (Edy brand ice cream is a subsidiary of Dreyer's). The Nestle-Dreyer's deal follows Nestle's acquisitions of Germany-based ice cream maker Schoeller Holding AG and the U.S.-based Haagen-Dazs. The new company will have a combined 17 percent of the worldwide market share and compete at the same level as the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, whose brands include Ben & Jerry's, Good Humor and Breyers.

Nestle invests in EFS network
Nestle FoodServices, a division of Nestle USA, has invested in, and will become a member of, the EFS electronic supply chain network. In addition, Allan Lutz, president of Nestle USA FoodServices Division, will occupy an observer seat on EFS' board of directors.

Nestlé sweetens ice-cream position
Nestlé sweetened its position as one of the world's largest ice-cream makers on Thursday by agreeing to pay General Mills $641m for the 50 per cent stake of Ice Cream Partners USA it did not already own.

Nestle acquires German ice cream maker Schoeller
The European Commission has approved plans by Swiss food and drink manufacturer Nestle to purchase German company Schoeller, a producer of ice cream and frozen foods.

Ugandan President declares war on Nestle
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared a trade war on one of the world's leading coffee producers, Nestle. "We are the fourth largest in the world... but we get very little money from that production." When he had approached representatives from Nestle at a recent trade summit about this, the reaction was "too bad for you".

Titans battle over bottled water mart
Luckily, the chilly waters of Lake Geneva keep them well apart. The village of Evian-les-Bains, at the foothills of the Alps on the lake's French shore, is home to Evian mineral water. Under its pink-and-white sign, its plant stares across the water at the Swiss town of Vevey, headquarters of food giant Nestle which produces the green-bottled Perrier label. Bitter rivals, the two mineral water titans have been battling for control of the world's high-margin bottled water market.

Ailing Uniq puts St Ivel on sale
Uniq, the struggling food group, put its 43-year-old St Ivel yogurts and spreads business up for sale yesterday in a desperate bid to cut debts and turn the loss-making company around. European food giants Danone and Nestle are thought to be the most likely bidders.

Moevenpick in talks to sell fine foods operations to Nestle
Moevenpick Holding AG Moevenpick's fine foods unit, which has annual sales of 273 million (sfr) is in talks with Nestle AG concerning the sale of its fine foods division, and is also mulling the sale of the gastronomy unit's Marche restaurants, reported SonntagsZeitung citing people close to the deal.

Water company to take over Sparkling Springs plant.
Sparkling Springs Water Co. has sold its property to the Perrier/Nestle Co. Tom Burns, a representative of Perrier/Nestle, said he doesn't expect any increase in local water usage and it was unknown at this time if there would be any expansion to the plant. "Hopefully," he said, "we will be expanding sometime in the future."

Perrier pours investment into South San Francisco
Perrier has leased a three-acre site in South San Francisco for its San Francisco distribution hub. Perrier signed a 15-year lease on the property to consolidate its San Francisco operations. The site includes a 10,000-square-foot office building and 16,000-square-foot distribution center. It is Perrier's largest distribution center in the region.

Perrier coming back for data
The DNR was back in New Haven talking about Perrier last week. The Perrier Group of America plans are to collect additional data, to take "at least a year." Circuit Court Judge Richard Wright in a January decision ruled the agreement the DNR signed with Perrier was "valid and enforceable," but the judge also ruled the environmental assessment was not adequate and additional data needs to be collected to make sure the wells won't impact wetlands, ground water or surface water.

Supreme Court to decide whether Texas Landowners are protected from drainage of Aquifer
The Sipriano family's well is a 100 year old well, which flowed continuously UNTIL OZARKA BEGAN PRODUCTION in Feb 1996 A few DAYS after OZARKA began its PUMPING operation, the Sipriano's WELL HAD BEEN DRAINED DRY. The Fain well has been so seriously drained that the family, small farming operation has been damaged and Mr. Fain has become concerned how long his family would have household water.

• File: 980247C - From documents transmitted: 05/06/99: Bart Sipriano, Harold Fain, and Doris Fain, v. a/k/a Ozarka Natural Spring Water Co.
  
  
• File: 980247O - From documents transmitted: 05/06/99: Bart Sipriano, Harold Fain, and Doris Fain, Petitioners v. a/k/a Ozarka Natural Spring Water Co.