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Nestlé Nespresso S.A., trading as Nespresso, is an operating unit of the Nestlé Group, based in Vevey, Switzerland. [4] Nespresso machines brew espresso and coffee from coffee capsules (or pods in machines for home or professional use [5]), a type of pre-apportioned single-use container, or reusable capsules (pods), of ground coffee beans, sometimes with added flavorings.
Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over 1 billion CHF (about US$1.1 billion), [11] including Nespresso, Nescafé, Nestea, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. [12]
Coffee machines were the most popular product, constituting 40 percent of sales in Germany and 30 percent in the United States. The following year Krups undertook a joint venture with Nestlé to produce the Nespresso machine. [1] In 1999 the Krups Irish factory in Limerick, formerly employing 800 people, closed.
Eric Favre is a Swiss engineer, best known for inventing the Nespresso system in 1976, the first single-serve coffee container. Favre graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne [1] and joined Nestle in 1975. [2] In 1976, Favre, an employee of Nestlé, invented, patented and introduced the Nespresso system. [3]
2013 Breville entered into a partnership with Nespresso to manufacture coffee machines. [17] 2017 Breville acquires water purification brand Aquaport and air purifier brand Cli-Mate. [18] 2019 Breville acquire the Seattle-based food and technology company, ChefSteps. [19] 2020 Breville acquires coffee grinder company Baratza. [20]
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Nescafé; Product type: Instant coffee: Owner: Nestlé: Country: Switzerland: Introduced: April 1, 1938; 86 years ago (): Markets: Worldwide: Tagline: It all starts ...
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