Nestlé India

Nestlé India Limited is the Indian subsidiary of Nestlé which is a Swiss multinational company. The company is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana. The company's products include food, beverages, chocolate, and confectioneries.[3][4]

The company was incorporated on 28 March 1959 and was promoted by Nestle Alimentana S.A. via a subsidiary, Nestle Holdings Ltd.[5][6] As of 2020, the parent company Nestlé owns 62.76% of Nestlé India.[7] The company has 9 production facilities in various locations across India.

History

Nestlé India is one of the largest players in India's fast-moving consumer goods sector and has a long history in the country.[8]

• Nestlé India Limited was incorporated at New Delhi on 28 March 1959 and was promoted by Nestle Alimentana S.A. via a wholly owned subsidiary, Nestle Holdings Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas.[5][6]
• The company built their first production facility in 1961 at Moga, in the Indian state of Punjab.[9][10]
• Nestlé's second plant was set up at Choladi in Tamil Nadu, the plant was built primarily to process the tea grown in the area.[9]
• In 1989, the company established a factory at Nanjangud in Karnataka.[9][6]
• The company entered the confectionery business in 1990 by introducing Nestlé premium chocolate.[9]
• In 1991, they started the production of soya based products through a joint venture with the BM Khaitan group.[9]
• In the year 1995 and 1997 Nestlé established two facilities in Goa at Ponda and Bicholim respectively.[9][6]
• In April 2000 they entered the liquid milk and iced tea markets.[9]
• 2006 marked the year when the company set up its 7th factory at Pantnagar in Uttarakhand.[9]
• The company opened another plant in Karnataka in 2011 bringing up its total plants in India to eight.[9]
• In October 2020, Nestle India announced investment of ₹2,600 crore for a new plant at Sanand in Gujarat. Initial phase of production commenced from 1 October 2021.[11]
• In 2023, the company announced that it would set up a food processing unit at Mundamba in Odisha with an investment of ₹894 crore.[12]

Production

Nestlé India currently has 9 manufacturing facilities across India. They are at:[3][9][13]

• 1) Moga, Punjab
• 2) Samalkha, Haryana
• 3) Nanjangud, Karnataka
• 4) Choladi, Tamil Nadu
• 5) Ponda, Goa
• 6) Bicholim, Goa
• 7) Pantnagar, Uttarakhand
• 8) Tahliwal, Himachal Pradesh
• 9) Sanand, Gujarat[14]

Controversy

In June 2015, Nestlé India's instant noodles product Maggi was banned by the Government of Delhi for a 15-day period after lead and monosodium glutamate in samples of the product were found to be beyond permissible limits.[15][16][17] On 5 June 2015, Maggi noodles were banned nationwide by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.[18] The ban was overturned on 13 August 2015 following the Bombay High Court's order and samples of Maggi Noodles were ordered to be retested within 6 weeks by three labs authorized by the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories.[19][18][20][21] Nestle was fined ₹45 lakh for the incident by the district administration.[22] Between 5 June 2015 when the noodles were first banned and 1 September 2015, Nestlé recalled 38,000 tonnes of Maggi Noodles from stores and incinerated them at 11 cement plants across India.[23][24] Nestlé eventually cleared the Bombay High Court mandated lab tests and Maggi Noodles were allowed to be manufactured and sold again.[25]

In March 2025, SEBI warned Nestle India over breach of insider trading regulations.[26]

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