1903 1938 European aristocrat The Toll House 1939 Sir St. John Chocolate Crunch Harmsworth purchases Cookie makes its first Gerber introduces its property in France on appearance in print in first baby cereal. which the Les Bouillens the 1938 edition of Ruth mineral spring resides. Wakefield’s Toll House 1898 He renames the spring Tried and True Recipes. after the physician Danforth creates who introduced him to a line of breakfast the magical sparkling 1951 1957 cereals, including waters, Dr. Perrier. Ralston Barley Food 1900 Dr. Lewis J. Minor, a Ralson Purina becomes and Hominy Grits. food scientist, founds the first company to 1866 Health guru Nestlé opens its 1947 the L. J. Minor use a manufacturing 1974 “Dr. Ralston,” with first factory in the 1907 1927 Company in Cleveland, process called The Anglo-Swiss 800,000 followers, United States in Ruth Wakefield sells Cetaphil® Cleansing Ohio, with $6,000 and extrusion to make OPTIFAST®, a Condensed Milk 1868 endorses the products. Fulton, New York. Buitoni® continues Young mother Dorothy Nestlé the right to use Lotion is invented a borrowed mixer. dry dog food pieces pioneering product Company is founded Danforth’s animal feed The plant produces to expand in Gerber stands in her her cookie recipe and by a pharmacist and Dr. Minor hires chefs that are uniform in in medical weight by Americans Charles With $3,000 and a is named “Purina” to baby food, condensed Italy, establishing Fremont, Michigan the Toll House name … launched by Texas to sell his product, size and appearance. management, Page and his brothers vision, Libby, McNeill match the company’s milk, and cheese the Perugina® kitchen struggling to Researchers in Nestlé’s for $1. Pharmacal in enforcing the is introduced. after they purchase an & Libby is founded tagline, “Where Purity until 1907 when, due Chocolate Factory. strain solid foods to Swiss laboratories San Antonio, Texas. company’s idea that the evaporated milk factory in Chicago, Illinois. is Paramount.” to high consumer feed her daughter. Her create the first product was created 1965 in Cham, Switzerland. Its first product demand, it begins husband Dan suggests non-perishable coffee. by chefs, for chefs. was beef in brine, also producing chocolate. he can strain fruits and Their innovative Carnation® Instant known as corned beef. vegetables at his product—the world’s Breakfast is introduced canning business, first instant coffee— Fremont Canning makes its way to Company, sparking the the United States beginning of Gerber® as Nescafé® the Baby Foods. following year. A Timeline of Key Events in the History of Nestlé in the United States | 1866–1976 1867 1894 1899 1902 1905 1921 1929 1938 1943 1948 1956 1962 1973 1976 The company’s name is Libby’s purchases Nestlé Crunch® Nestlé opens two Nestlé launches Quik Friskies® canned cat Purina Cat Chow® Stouffer’s® joins the Nestlé purchases changed from the Dickinson & Company, is launched. American production Chocolate Powder, food is introduced by debuts and quickly Nestlé family Libby’s®, the world’s Robinson-Danforth acquiring its pumpkin- facilities to keep up allowing parents Carnation Company. becomes the country’s and launches its premier canned Commission Company packing plant in with the growing all over the United best-selling dry popular frozen pumpkin producer. to Ralston Purina. Morton, Illinois. demand for Nescafé®. States to make their cat food. French bread pizza the The military supplies children a quick glass following year. Nestlé merges with the popular instant of chocolate milk. The Anglo-Swiss coffee to US troops Condensed Milk during World War II. Company to form William Dreyer opens Swiss pharmacist In St. Louis, William Elbridge A. Stuart the Nestlé Group. a creamery in Visalia, Henri Nestlé creates H. Danforth (pictured) founds Pacific Coast California, winning his “Farine Lactée” and his partners, Condensed Milk the 1921 Pacific Slope product, which George Robinson and Company with partner Dairy Show. Later, combines cow’s milk, Will Andrews, sell a Tom Yerxa. Dreyer and Joseph Edy, Eighteen-year-old wheat flour, and sugar new animal feed made a candy parlor owner, Reuben Mattus, along as a nutritional source of corn, oats, and E. A. Stuart automates create “Grand” with his mother and Tombstone® Pizza is for infants. molasses. It is his canning process. ice cream. Dreyer sister, launches a line started by Wisconsin mixed using shovels A century later, modern makes the ice cream of frozen confections bar owner Joe Simek. In Switzerland, Daniel and packaged in machinery continues to that Edy sells in his called Senator Food Nestlé debuts its Peter—working with 175-pound sacks. pack his evaporated candy parlors. Products, the precursor Nestea® brand, so his neighbor, Henri milk product. to Häagen-Dazs®. Mattus consumers can make Nestlé—discovers sells his wares from iced tea by stirring a way to combine a horse-drawn cart. Nestea® crystals sweetened condensed into cold water. milk with cocoa powder to create milk chocolate. Consumers worldwide immediately embrace the innovative confection. 2013 The Andy Warhol Foundation teams 2014 up with Perrier to mark the brand’s Nestlé Skin Health is 150th anniversary by created as part of a launching limited- commitment by edition pop art Nestlé to expand the 2008 bottles and cans. boundaries of Nutrition, 1985 Health and Wellness. Nestlé Professional The company grows out Nestlé buys Carnation 2002 opens the Customer of Galderma, the Company. At the time, Innovation Campus, a dermatology joint the $3 billion deal 1987 Nestlé purchases 67,000-square-foot venture founded with 1977 makes headlines as it is Dreyer’s, adding facility in Solon, Ohio, 2010 L’Oréal in 1981. 2015 the largest non-oil Purina debuts 1990 Dreyer’s/Edy’s® Grand with a flexible kitchen Thanks in part to acquisition in history. super-premium lines Ice Cream, among design. Visiting food Nestlé expands its BOOST® Original JULY the efforts of L. J. of dog food, including Nestlé acquires Baby other brands, to the 2006 professionals can frozen food offerings, Complete Nutritional Nestlé Professional Minor Corp., the US Pro Plan® and Ruth® and Butterfinger® Nestlé family. mirror their specific adding pizza brands Drink launches opens a new global Department of Labor, Purina® ONE®. from RJR Nabisco. 1994 Nespresso opens its operations, allowing DiGiorno®, Tombstone®, an improved formula, Research and and the American 1982 Bart Simpson becomes 2000 Nestlé acquires first North American products to be and California adding 3 grams of Development Center Culinary Federation L. J. Minor Corp. joins Butterfinger’s spokesman, SKINNY COW® brand Hot Pockets® from boutique bar in developed seamlessly Pizza Kitchen®, in MAY Prebio, a proprietary in Solon, Ohio, announce that the Fancy Feast®, the Nestlé, bringing with it threatening, “Nobody ice cream snacks debut. Nestlé Waters Chef America. Manhattan. and transferred a $3.7 billion deal Nestlé announces blend of prebiotic focusing on product role of executive first-ever gourmet cat a portfolio of hundreds better lay a finger purchases Canadian back to their own with Kraft Foods. its Cocoa Plan, fibers, to support innovation and recipe chef is moving food in single-serve of products that make a on my Butterfinger®.” company Aberfoyle— restaurant kitchens. which seeks to digestive health. improvement. from the “services” cans, is launched. chef’s day easier. 1998 which supplied about enable farmers to category to the half of Walmart’s run profitable farms, “professional, technical, Nestlé inaugurates bottled water improve social and managerial a new research business—and folds conditions, and occupations” category and development it into the future source quality, in the Dictionary facility in Princeton, billion-dollar brand sustainable cocoa of Official Titles. New Jersey. Nestlé® Pure Life®. for Nestlé products. 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Nestlé’s commitment Nestlé launches a that it is removing to dermatology Hot Pockets® hits espresso coffee Buitoni joins the Nestlé Waters. introduce a rising crust. the brand, which has care unit to St. Louis highest-quality coffee, everywhere to feed Vitality’s juices, teas, to advancing the role of new product during all artificial colors called Galderma. the market. concept, the Carnation division. grown to include gelato, as part of the newly the Nespresso AAA their children coffees, and smoothies nutrition to change the the Super Bowl. and flavors from its company develops frozen yogurt, and ice created Nestlé Purina Sustainable Quality the healthiest join other popular course of health for Butterfinger® chocolate products, a revolutionary cream bars, was PetCare Company. Program is launched, foods possible. restaurant beverage consumers, patients, Peanut Butter Cups making it the first system of portioned, officially licensed to in collaboration items such as Nescafé® and healthcare are introduced major confections Lean Cuisine® debuts encapsulated coffee, Nestlé in 2001. Gerber becomes the with the NGO The and Coffee-mate®. professionals. during a 30-second manufacturer to do so.