Vitality Foodservice agrees to Nestle acquisition

Vitality Foodservice Inc., which provides beverages to the foodservice industry, said Thursday that it has agreed to be purchased by Nestle's professional division for an undisclosed sum.

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Nestle: 9-month sales fall 2.2 percent

Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, said Thursday that sales for the first nine months fell 2.2 percent as the strong Swiss franc and weakened demand hurt overall performance.

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Nestle: Zimbabwe accounts back to normal

Nestle says its Zimbabwe banking is back to normal just days after newspapers reported that the government froze their accounts and ordered an audit after the company stopped buying milk from a farm owned by President Robert Mugabe's wife.

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Nestle stops buying Mugabe farm milk

Nestle says it will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife's farm after facing worldwide boycott threats.

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Court orders new look at Taster's Choice lawsuit

The California Supreme Court wants a trial court to come back to a long-running dispute over the use of a former model's image on Taster's Choice coffee labels.

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Nestle posts 2.7 pct fall in H1 net profit

Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink maker, reported Wednesday a 2.7 percent fall in first-half net profit as the recession hurt consumer demand and divestments and a stronger Swiss franc weighed on sales.

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FDA: Dough's E. coli strain differs from illness

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday the strain of E. coli found in a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant does not match the strain that has been linked to a 30-state outbreak, and they aren't sure how the dough was contaminated.

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FDA says E. coli found in Nestle sample

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant last week has tested positive for E. coli.

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Nestle refused FDA information, reports show

Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times in the past five years to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

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Nestle recalls all refrigerated Toll House dough

Federal authorities are investigating a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, this time related to a sweet treat treasured by the heartbroken and children-at-heart — packaged raw cookie dough.

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13 things your grocer won’t tell you

Americans are now spending less time eating out, and a lot more time in the grocery store. So before you go shopping, Reader’s Digest shares hidden tricks of the trade that will help you save a lot of money and make your family’s meals healthier:

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Nestle reports 69 pct rise in 2008 profit

Swiss food and drinks company Nestle SA on Thursday reported a 69 percent increase in full-year net profit thanks largely to the sale of a stake in eyecare company Alcon, and said it aimed to grow sales with low-cost products like bouillon cubes and instant coffee during the global downturn.

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Nestle sends experts for melamine tests in China

The head of European food giant Nestle said Friday the company had mounted a "sizable effort" to ensure the safety of its dairy products in China, sending in scientists and specialized machines in the wake of the melamine contamination scandal.

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Nestle's 1H profits up 6.1 percent

Nestle SA, the worlds biggest food and drink company, reported 6.1 percent growth in first-half net profit Thursday despite rising transport and raw materials costs and slowing bottled water sales amid criticism from environmentalists.

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Nestle Raises Outlook for 2008

Nestle says it expects to equal last year's growth of 7 percent.

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Pet Owners Worry About Food Recall

Silviene Grzybowski became worried when her local pet store pulled the food she normally feeds her cat and posted an announcement saying it, and many other popular pet foods, had been recalled. Her cat, Smokey, hadn't been eating for days.

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Nestle Dairy Plant in Colombia Destroyed

A pickup truck carrying 660 pounds of explosives destroyed a dairy plant owned by Swiss food giant Nestle SA in southern Colombia, an attack police attributed Thursday to leftist rebels.

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Co-Founder of Haagen-Dazs Dies at 90

Rose Mattus, who launched Haagen-Dazs ice cream with her husband, peddling the super-premium treat in grocery stores, has died. She was 90.

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Chocolate Maker Nestle to Buy Jenny Craig

In a move that recognizes the modern world's twin obsessions — indulgence and guilt — chocolate maker Nestle said Monday it would purchase weight loss product maker Jenny Craig Inc. for $600 million.

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Hell hath no fury like a mummy blogger scorned - a lesson quickly learnt by Nestle this week after its attempt to buy bloggers' affections backfired spectacularly.

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Nestle says it will stop buying milk from a farm owned by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's family, who seized it from white farmers under his controversial land reforms.

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Water is a key medium through which climate change impacts will be felt," it reads, adding that "water-related adaptation" should be seen as part of the solution.

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The multi-billion dollar bottled water industry, which has major operations in Michigan, has gone to great lengths to market its product as clean, healthy and superior to other water. But at a congressional hearing led by U.S. Rep.

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Time is ticking. It's been nine years now since Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation first went to court to stop Nestlé from pumping millions of gallons from a rural Michigan wildlife preserve.

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Inspection reports from a Nestlé USA cookie dough factory released yesterday show the company declined several times in the past five years to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

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(CNN) -- A Nestle plant linked to an outbreak of illness has been shut temporarily, and the company said Monday that it expects to lay off more than 200 workers as a result.

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The Federal authorities are investigating Nestle's Danville, Va., plant that makes refrigerated cookie dough which is believed to be related to a new national outbreak of a bacteria-triggered illness, according to media reports on Monday.

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Nestle decided not to do business with the two Peanut Corporation of America plants invovled in recent major recalls after Nestle's inspectiions a few years ago.

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One year ago we published an article outlining the bottled water industry's plan for dealing with a quickly spreading backlash against their products.

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Nestle is forced to cut back capital expenditures on its bottled water division(s) because of economy and environmental concerns.

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FROM next month, the familiar multicoloured shiny shells of Smarties will fade noticeably, as five of the six food colourings possibly linked to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an overseas study are replaced with safer alternatives.

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The Food and Drug Administration has found trace amounts of the industrial poison melamine in baby formula and nutritional supplements sold in the U.S. The chemical is the same one that sickened at least 50,000 babies in China this year who drank contaminated formula.

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THE world's largest food manufacturer has reduced sugar levels of some of its top-selling kids' foods - such as Milo cereal and chocolate milk - and will stop advertising non-nutritious products under a plan to improve its image worldwide. Nestle will unveil the global marketing …

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The U.S. bottled water market is slowing down after years of steady growth, suggesting that international awareness campaigns may be curbing consumer demand.

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In California, a new kind of water war is brewing.

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A Kentucky company is recalling about 215,660 pounds of frozen stuffed pepperoni pizza sandwich products, known as Hot Pockets Pepperoni Pizza. Nestlé Prepared Foods Co. said the Hot Pockets may contain foreign materials.

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A French flight attendant has won an opportunity to fly to the edge of space after rescuing a winning candy wrapper from the garbage.

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Very convincing arguments for drinking water straight for the tap, rather than plastic bottles. "We used 17 million barrels of oil to manufacture bottles for water in 2006" and that doesn't included transportation.

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Have you picked up a can of soup lately and noticed that the sodium levels are lower? Seen a label that said, "No MSG"? How about realizing that there is less sugar on the label of your favorite ice cream? Believe it or not, this is cause for concern. A relatively young company, …

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Nestle came into Florida and managed to pull off quite the coup. The company got a permit to take water belonging to Floridians — hundreds of millions of gallons a year from a spring in a state park — at no cost to Nestle.

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German officials investigating possible chocolate price-fixing have raided the offices of some of Europe's biggest confectionary companies. Nestle and Mars confirmed that competition officials visited their German headquarters last Thursday.

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by Peggy O'Mara

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I SCREAM, you scream, we all scream for ice cream ... from Häagen-Dazs and Gourmet magazine will substitute a new flavor name for the question mark on the package tomorrow.

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