Nestl é won the golden prize in China's food industry in 2018 to build capsule coffee production in Switzerland.

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On November 20, 2018, the "Food Industry in Big countries-China Food Development Conference 2018" sponsored by Xinhuanet was held in Beijing. The theme of this conference is "Brand leading change, creating reshaping value", which was officially announced at the 2018 Golden Award in China's food industry. Nestl é won the honor for its outstanding contribution to sustainable development in China.

Nestl é won the golden prize in China's food industry in 2018.

The evaluation of the "Golden Bowl Award" has been launched for five consecutive years since 2014, and has been widely concerned and praised by the industry. This evaluation is aimed at enterprises that have considerable influence and appeal, transmit the positive energy of the times and make outstanding contributions to China's food safety. After netizens' online voting and combined with expert opinions, the real excellent benchmark enterprises in China's food industry were carefully selected in order to promote the reform and innovation of food enterprises. Explore the new development trend of the food industry. Nestl é has been widely recognized by all sectors of the community because of its leading sustainable development concept of "creating shared value".

"creating shared value" is the cornerstone of Nestl é's business philosophy. As a leading multinational company, Nestl é believes that to achieve long-term sustainable business development, we must create value for society. At Nestle, the areas of water, nutrition and agricultural community development are the focus of the company. These areas cover the core of Nestle's business activities, and sustainable development efforts run through the company's entire value chain.

From the establishment of the first production plant in China to the present, Nestl é has established a stable cooperative relationship with farmers and pastures after 30 years of development in China. It not only ensures the teaching and upgrading of agricultural technology, but also ensures that it can obtain long-term, stable and reliable income through farming and planting, so as to improve the living standards of local farmers. In order to improve sustainable development through the modernization of dairy farming, Nestl é China has decided to invest in the establishment of a "Nestl é Dairy training Center" in Shuangcheng. The centre, which was completed in October 2014, includes a training centre and two dairy farms of different sizes. Through cooperation with first-class universities and leading enterprises in various fields of dairy farming at home and abroad, Nestl é Dairy training Center can provide world-class training and farm practice for dairy workers across the country.

Plus capsule coffee business, investing 43 million Swiss francs to build a new production line in Switzerland

The Romon factory in Switzerland is the main production base of the Nespresso coffee distribution system Vertuo, a multi-purpose coffee system adapted to different capsule sizes, offering coffee capsules of different sizes from 40ml to 414ml.

Swiss food giant Nestl é has stepped up its investment in its high-end capsule coffee brand Nespresso.

On November 21st, Nestl é Nespresso announced an investment of 43 million Swiss francs to build two new production lines at its plant in Romont, Switzerland, to meet the growing demand for the multi-purpose coffee system Vertuo. CEO Jean-Marc Duvoisin of Nespresso said that Vertuo business will be an important contributor to the future development of Nespresso.

At the same time, Nespresso will integrate the existing product research and development center and the Coffee Campus (Coffee Campus) to open an innovation center to promote global innovation and coffee expertise. Among them, the product R & D center is responsible for the development of new Nespresso coffee machines, Grand Cru coffee and some unique coffee. The main function of the coffee campus is to serve as a training center to improve the professional level of the company's internal employees and external partners.

The Romon factory, founded in 2015, is the third factory of Nespresso, with an investment of SFr300m at the time. Since then, an additional 48 million Swiss francs has been invested to expand production capacity and set up a product research and development center and a coffee campus.

The plant is also the main production base for the Nespresso coffee distribution system Vertuo, a multi-purpose coffee system adapted to different capsule sizes that can produce coffee capsules of different sizes from 40ml to 414ml. According to Nestle's financial results for the first nine months of 2018, as of the third quarter of this year, Vertuo has been launched in 14 markets around the world.

For Nestl é, the coffee business is an important driving force for its growth, which has achieved more positive organic growth in the past few years, of which the fastest growth is capsule coffee. At present, Nestl é has two capsule coffee brands, Nespresso and Dolce Gusto, and company executives have revealed in an exclusive interview with Interface News that the business of these two brands in the Chinese market is growing at double digits, exceeding the "medium single-digit growth" of the Chinese market as a whole.

Source: interface News, Nestle website

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