How Nestle Expanded From Switzerland To Everywhere Else

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Nestle is a truly dominant food company in the world. But its origins are actually fairly humble. In today's podcast episode, we'll track how Nestle expanded and grew through the decades to become one of the largest and most dominant food companies in the world and what they're up to today... controversies and all!
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Re: Kit Kat comments/question at the 0:24 marker:
UK’s Roundtree candy company invented the original concept of the Kit Kat bar, originally named the Wafer Crisp, as the Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp in 1935. Canada had its own version named the Coffee Crisp still popular today, and not available in the U.S.
After manufacturing and distributing Kit Kat for decades, the British company entered into a deal with Hershey, giving it control over US Kit Kat distribution in 1970. Hershey started making Kit Kats in its own plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1973. Nestlé acquired Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, as Rowntree’s was called after a merger, and with it Kit Kat’s global distribution. Hershey maintains the US license, thus, the ‘different’ tasting Kit Kat in the United States.