Cailler
Founded by François-Louis Caille in 1819, Cailler is Switzerland’s oldest chocolate brand. The chocolatier operated independently for many decades before being acquired by Nestlé in 1929. Today, it sells a range of souvenir chocolates, chocolate bars, pralines, biscuits, and baking chocolate.
Drumstick
Drumstick manufactures a variety of frozen dessert-filled ice cream cones. The brand was founded almost by accident when I.C Parker, a candy factory worker, accidentally dropped an ice cream cone he was eating into a vat of chocolate, after which he retrieved it and placed it onto a counter covered in peanuts. The resulting product earned its brand name thanks to its resemblance to a chicken drumstick.
Other confectionary, chocolate, and ice cream brands owned by Nestlé include:
Extreme
Haagen-Dazs
Hsu Fu Chi
KitKat
La Laitiere
Lion Cereal
Maxibon
Milkybar
Movenpick
Munch
Nestle Cui Cui Shark
Nestle Les Recettes de l’Atelier
Orion
Quality Street
Smarties
Toll House
Garoto
Pet Care
Nestlé’s pet care brands are marketed and manufactured by its subsidiary, Purina PetCare.
Alpo
Since its inception in 1936, this dog food brand has focused on developing simple and nutritious dog food. Today, it sells a range of wet and dry food made with high-quality protein sources and produced only in U.S. facilities.
Dentalife
Dentalife is a brand of dental dog chews. Its products are designed to help owners introduce a proper oral care routine for their pets, which can contribute to them living an overall healthier life.
Dog Chow
Founded in 1926, Dog Chow is a brand of dog food. The brand’s dry and wet dog food recipes offer 100% complete and balanced nutrition for adult dogs using high-quality protein and no fillers.
Bakers
Bakers is a brand of dog food that produces dry food for puppies, adult dogs, small dogs, and senior dogs, as well as a range of dog treats. Bakers products are nutritionally balanced for a dog’s daily needs and have no added artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
Beggin’
Beggin’ is a brand of dog food. Its dog treats, which are designed to look, smell, and taste like bacon, are made with real meat in U.S. facilities. Available flavors include original bacon, pizza, and loaded bacon and cheese fries.
Busy Bone
Busy Bone is a brand of dog food that produces dog chew treats, including easily digestible rawhide alternatives and long-lasting beef hide chew bones. Its products contain real meat and are made with no artificial FD&C colors.
Cat Chow
Cat Chow is voted the #1 dry cat food brand in America. It sells a range of dry cat food products that cater to cats of all ages and pets with sensitive stomachs, hairballs, joint problems, and compromised immune systems. All Cat Chow products are packed with nutrients, including real protein and essential vitamins and minerals.
Other pet food brands owned by Nestlé include:
Fancy Feast
Felix
Friskies
Gourmet
Lily’s Kitchen
Merrick
Pro Plan Veterinary Diets
Purina
Purina Pro Plan
Tidy Cats
Supercoat
Terra Canis
Food Cupboard, Frozen Food, Supplements, and Baby Products
Buitoni
In 1827, Giulia Buitoni and her husband, Giovan Battista Buitoni, opened a small pasta shop in Sansepolcro, Italy, quickly attracting buyers from afar. Today, the brand’s product range includes pasta, sauces, pestos, and grated cheese.
Carnation
Carnation was founded by Swiss-born Johann Baptist Meyenberg in 1899 after he emigrated to the U.S. to pursue his business dream. Founded as the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company, Carnation’s first product was canned evaporated milk.
Nestlé acquired the Carnation Company in 1984 and later brought all of its milk products under the Carnation brand name. Today, it sells original, vegan, and fat-free condensed milk and a range of dessert sauces, caramels, evaporated milk, and creams.
Compleat
Compleat is a nutritionally complete formula made with real fruit and vegetable ingredients and a delicious fruity flavor for tube feeding or drinking. It is the only nutritionally complete solution that contains ingredients derived from food.
Compleat launched its first blenderized tube-feeding formula in 1971 and now produces 16 formulas designed to support a wide range of nutritional applications.
Coffee Mate
Coffee Mate is a lactose and cholesterol-free creamer designed to make coffee richer, smoother, and creamier. Coffee Mate’s product range includes liquids, powders, and concentrates, as well as reduced fat and sugar-free options.
DiGiorno
DiGiorno was introduced by Kraft Foods in 1995, selling a range of frozen pizzas with a doughy crust that rose when baked. Providing a welcome change to flat, crunchy pizza crusts, to which consumers had previously been limited, DiGiorno became the top-selling frozen pizza brand in the U.S. within three years.
The brand was acquired by Nestlé in 2010 for $3.7 billion in cash. Today, its product range includes rising crust, stuffed crust, croissant crust, thin crust, Detroit-style, and gluten-free pizzas.
Other food cupboard/frozen food brands owned by Nestlé include:
