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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]
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.
He led the chain to success and sold it in 1979 to German billionaire Theo Albrecht, co-founder of the Aldi supermarket chain. [2] [7] Coulombe continued with Trader Joe's as chief executive officer until retiring in 1988. [2] Coulombe served on the corporate boards of Cost Plus World Market, Bristol Farms, True Religion, and Imperial Bank. [4] [8]
Henri Nestlé (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi nɛsle]; born Heinrich Nestle, German: [ˈhaɪnrɪç ˈnɛstlə]; 10 August 1814 – 7 July 1890) was a German-Swiss confectioner and the founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company.
In the United States, Nestlé used the Nescafé name on its products until the late 1960s.Later, Nestlé introduced a new brand in Canada and the US called Taster's Choice, which supplanted Nescafé for many [vague] years.
In 1970, Kendall requested and participated in a high-level meeting of Chilean businessman and publisher Agustín Edwards Eastman of the Edwards family with high Nixon administration officials, after which President Nixon met with then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms and, in the words of a 1976 New York Times article, said "that Chile was to be saved ...
Charles F. Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98, according to a news report. A ...
Alfred H. Peet (March 10, 1920 – August 29, 2007) was a Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley, California, in 1966. Peet is widely credited with starting the specialty coffee revolution in the US. Among coffee historians, Peet has been called "the Dutchman who taught America how to drink coffee."