Nestlé S.A. is a food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, which traces its foundations to 1866. It describes itself to investors as the world’s largest, most diversified food and beverages company, with about 271,000 employees, 335 factories in 75 countries and products sold in 185 countries. Its shares trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange, and Philipp Navratil is Chief Executive Officer.
Its categories include coffee, confectionery, culinary, nutrition and health, petcare and water, with brands such as Nescafé, Nespresso, KitKat and Maggi. Nestlé reported 2025 sales of CHF 89.5 billion.
Food Engineering ranks Nestlé No. 2 in its 2026 Top 100 Food and Beverage Companies, with food sales of SwF 72,186 million (US$90,954 million) for the year to December 2025.
