The Frankfurt pharmacist’s apprentice became independent in 1840 in Vevey, Switzerland in the oil and gas production. 1867 Henri Nestlé developed his “kids meal”: The surrogate mother’s milk, he led his company Nestle SA in 1875 quickly became a leading international producer of artificial infant feeding. Condensed with the Norwegian company in 1898 Nestlé bought the first food plant outside Switzerland. In ongoing mergers and acquisitions, the company became the Nestlé Group and soon became the world’s largest food producers of the earth …
Heinrich Nestle was on 10 Born Dignified 1814 in Frankfurt / Main.
His father, Johann Ulrich Matthias Nestle (1776-1838), worked as a glazier. With school, Nestle completed an apprenticeship in a pharmacy in Frankfurt, which he completed before the 1834th Then he went on a journey through the German bloc. To 1839, was the journeyman matured under the name of Henri Nestlé in Switzerland. He worked as a pharmacy assistant in Vevey.
In 1843 he made there own: He bought a mill and distillery, where he produced oil, bone meal, vinegar and liqueurs. Nestlé became familiar with the research work of Justus von Liebig and established a chemical laboratory where he developed in view of the fact that 1849 Mineral. He also produced from bone and vegetable oil is a liquid, which would relieve him of the town of Vevey for street lighting, and which he used for his trade with kerosene lamps.
Nestlé in 1860 married Clementine Ehemant with which he oversaw the foster daughter Emma Seiler. In view of the fact that the town of Vevey, but, 1862 at lighting with coal gas surrounded, watched Nestlé forced to look for a new major source of income. He then learned the field of artificial infant feeding for themselves.
With initial attempts failed to yield a surrogate mother’s milk, Nestlé managed under excitation by appropriate research Liebig in 1867, the development of a “for children meal” made from milk, wheat and sugar. This manufactured goods has been shown in his first application for a sick infant to be successful. Nestlé and his wife then invested all their assets into the mass production of the manufactured goods, what they could build an entire factory.
In the mid-1870s, the capable entrepreneur sold over a million kids meal boxes in 18 countries. Nestlé was naturalized in 1874 in Vevey. In 1875 he separated from his company took over Gustav now Marquis, Jules Monnerat and Pierre-Samuel Roussy and transformed into a corporation. Gradually expanded its manufactured goods range the company to condensed milk (1878), Chocolate (1905) and Nescafe (1938).
Henri Nestlé died on 7 July 1890 in the Swiss canton of Vaud in Glion. The company he founded became the largest global player in the food industry, which has acted continued under his name.
