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Nestle is one of the world’s largest food and beverage corporation in the food industry. It commands wide brand name recognitionand significant influence with customers, businesses, and also governments. Its products range from ice cream, water, coffee, and baby food to performance and also healthcare nutrition, pet care,confectionery, pharmaceuticals and others. Nestlé’s major brand names comprise of Toll House, Nestea, Lean cuisine, Perrier, Nescafe, and Perrier.
Nestle’s share price has experienced an eighteen-fold increase over the last 20 years. From 1970 to 2000, Nestle shares outperformed the Morgan Stanley Capital Index of Swiss blue chip stock companies by over 250% and the Morgan Stanley World Blue Chip Stock Index in USD terms by 25%. For decades, Nestle has had consistent, stable and accelerated growth in overall turnover. In terms of current performance, the year 2001 was once again a record year for sales, net profits and dividends to shareholders, with CHF 84.7 billion in sales, CHF 6,681 million in net profit and 4.4% real internal growth.
According to Stern Stewart’s Wealth Added Index (WAI), Nestle is among the top 15 companies worldwide in creating shareholder wealth in a ranking of the 5069 largest quoted companies. Stern Stewart calculates that between June 1996 and June 2001 Nestlé’s wealth added to shareholders amounted to USD 43.8 billion. The WAI rankings emphasize the notion that companies increase the money’s worth of shareholders by making sure their returns to investors- from dividend earnings and share prices -exceed that of their cost of equity, which is defined as the minimum or lowest return that investors require for putting their money in shares of stock, rather than in minimum risk alternatives such as government bonds. Nestle has had an outstanding record and has shown steady profits with no