Dairy products companies

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Dairy products companies by country, Parmalat units, Nestlé, Sanlu Group, Beatrice Foods, Mengniu Dairy, Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, La Serenísima, National Foods, Fage, Sanyuan Group, Yili Group, Tine, FrieslandCampina, Tara, Irish Dairy Board, Evga S.A., Napolact, Compañía Nacional De Chocolates de Perú S.A., Alpina Productos Alimenticios, Lactogal, Kavli Trust, Beatrice Foods Canada, Dutch Mill, Soprole, Nounou, Ault Foods, Clover, Yashili, Noel, Synnøve Finden, Seoul Milk, Parmalat Canada, Chilchota Alimentos, Dairibord, Emmi AG, Q. Excerpt: Nestlé S.A. (French pronunciation: ) is the largest food and nutrition company in the world. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, eventually expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products. Today, the company operates in 86 countries around the world, and employs over 280,000 people. Today, in English-speaking countries the French version of "Nestlé" is increasingly common ( ). However, the dominant pronunciation in those countries throughout the 20th century was , as in the English verb "nestle". This pronunciation was reinforced in the 1960s television advertisement jingle for "'s Milky Bar". Nestlé headquarters in Vevey.The company dates to 1867, when two separate Swiss enterprises were founded that would later form the core of Nestlé. In the succeeding decades, the two competing enterprises aggressively expanded their businesses throughout Europe and the United States. In August 1867, Charles and George Page, two brothers from Lee County, Illinois, USA, established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham. Their first British operation was opened at Chippenham, Wiltshire, in 1873. In September 1867, in Vevey, Henri Nestlé developed a milk-based baby food, and soon began marketing it. The following year, 1868, saw Daniel Peter begin seven years of work perfecting his invention, the milk chocolate manufacturing process; Nestlé's was the crucial cooperation that Peter needed to solve the problem of removing all the water from the milk added to his chocolate, and thus preventing the product from developing mildew. Henri Nestlé retired in 1875, but the company, under new ownership, retained his name as Farine Lactée Henri Ne