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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.
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]
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.
Breville Group Limited, or simply Breville, is an Australian multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances, headquartered in Alexandria, an inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Nestlé began developing a coffee brand in 1930, at the initiative of the Brazilian government, to help to preserve the substantial surplus of the annual Brazilian coffee harvest.
Before Nestle turned 20 in 1834, he completed a four-year apprenticeship with J. E. Stein, owner of a Frankfurt pharmacy.At some point between 1834 and 1839 he migrated, for reasons unknown, to Switzerland. [6]