In 2016, the international company Nestlé celebrated its 150th anniversary.
The history of Nestlé began in the 1870s, when a pharmacist living in the small Swiss town of Vevey, Henri Nestlé, invented a revolutionary product – a breast-milk substitute for infants who could not tolerate their mother’s milk.
The first to try the breast-milk substitute was the prematurely born child of Henri’s neighbors, whose body could not tolerate breast milk or any other replacement products available at the time. Henri Nestlé’s new product saved the child’s life, and the breast-milk substitute Henri Nestlé Farine Lactée quickly became popular and soon began to be sold throughout almost all of Europe.
The rapidly growing company merged in 1905 with the condensed milk producer Anglo-Swiss, marking the beginning of the history of the Nestlé Group.
Nestlé in the Baltic States
Nestlé opened its representative office in the Baltic States in 1996.
Six years later, UAB Nestlé Baltics was established, with its head office located in Vilnius. The company also has permanent representative offices in Latvia and Estonia.