Customization Model Of Nestle

Nestle, an international recognized multinational corporation is the world’s leading nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Nestlé’s mission of “Good Food, Good Life” aims at providing customers with the finest quality of nutritional choices within a wide range of food and beverage classifications (NESTLÉ - Vassos Eliades. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.vassoseliades.com/consumer-goods/nestle.html, para. 1). The merger in 1905 between Nestle and the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company created the Nestle we know today. Nestle is one of the world’s largest suppliers of food and nutritional products operating with 461 factories in 83 countries, with 328,000 employees worldwide (Fries, Lorin, Goldberg, Ray, 2012. Nestle: Agricultural Material

Nestlé’s products are categorized as business and convenience products. They different variation of products and they have a 12 product lines. Besides, they have products which are in the introduction stage, growth stage and maturity stage. Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad are their trade name while Nestlé is their brand name. They are using mixed branding. They also provide different kind of packaging for different type of product. They are using demand-oriented, cost-oriented, profit-oriented, competition-oriented, and special adjustment approaches. Their headquarters is in Switzerland and they has 114 outlets across the world. They 7 factories in Malaysia. They are using multichannel marketing. Furthermore, they promote their products through advertising, personal selling, public relations, sales promotion and social

Political factor is important especially in food industry. From here, Nestle has provided food assurance to ensure to the consumer that their products are manufactured and distributed under the safety condition. Besides, Nestle products are always come with the seal of guarantee, it is to prevent consumer purchase any fake products. Therefore, Nestle product quality can be different from other products, and guarantees with full satisfaction of the products all over the world.

169). Using the change cube in the Mintzberg text, Nestlé will be focusing on strategy by improving or creating additional products. As Nestlé is already committed to being

Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Bishop Street, Penang was the first Nestlé office. With the continuously growth and expansion, in 1939, the company built up in Kuala Lumpur as the headquarters in order to centralise nation-wide operation. Through Food Specialities (Malaya) Ltd, Nestle opened its first factory in Petaling Jaya in 1962. This factory mainly manufactures Milo powder, the famous chocolate-based beverage, culinary sauces, chilled dairy and milk powder. With the tremendously merging and cooperation within the Nestlé group and other companies such as Cold Storage Malaysia Berhad, Nutritional Products Sdn Bhd and Food Specialist Sdn Bhd. Today, there are many Nestlé products and sells over 300 Halal products in Malaysia. Brand name such as MILO®, NESCAFÉ®, MAGGI®, NESPRAY® and KIT KAT® also become famous and trusted food brand in this generation. It is proud to mention that Nestlé Malaysia is one of the strongest companies listed on the Bursa Malaysia. The honour of the company is mainly result from the operating principle, including provide quality, reliability and convenience product to the consumer, use of good quality local raw materials and at the same time protect the environment, ensure products produced are certified HALAL by authorised Islamic certification bodies and

Nestle is the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. From Henri Nestlé’s humble beginnings with the first product, Farine Lactée, which revolutionized infant feeding, the company’s priorities have remained the same -about bringing high quality, safe and nutritious foods and beverages to people through all stages of life. In Nestle’s pursuit of delighting and satisfying the customers, Nestle’s products are adapted to meet local, regional taste preferences, religious and cultural sentiments and disparities in purchasing power.

Economic -Nestlé is leading company in the food industry, they share their knowledge and expertise with local small and medium companies. It helps entrepreneurs to contend in the new free trade environment which will ultimately benefit the business and the economy by making the market grow. Other than that, Nestlé also collaborates with local government to give technical assistance to farmers in planting and gathering crops. The farmers will get higher income and Nestlé will get the chance to buy good and fresh raw materials to create their products. So the company would no longer need to import raw materials where as the can buy them at a very cheap price from the locals. (Kumar et al, 2013,

Nestlé is the global leading nutrition, health and wellness company based in Switzerland. Its product line includes baby food, breakfast cereals, coffee, confectionery, dairy products, frozen food, pet foods, yoghurt and snacks with high revenues making it the world’s largest food company. Nestlé operates in 197 countries with over 340,000 employees, in 2014 its group sales account CHF 91.6 billion (USD 99.9 billion), whereas its trading operating profit is CHF 14 billion (USD 15 billion). “The Group’s net debt fell from CHF 14.7 billion to CHF 12.3 billion reflecting strong free cash flow during the year at CHF 14.1 billion more than offsetting the payment of the dividend of CHF 6.9 billion and the initial phase of the current share buy-back programme” (Nestle, 2014).

Nestlé can transformation its manufacturing by following three stage methods. It will help Nestlé achieve operational efficiency and hence above targets.

Nestlé is decentralized and is organized in a matrix structure. Branches of the organization are given a relatively high degree of autonomy in running daily operations, while major strategy decisions are made at headquarters. The company operates six segments: Zone Europe; Zone Americas; Zone Asia, Oceania, and Africa; Nestlé Waters, Nestlé Nutrition, and Other. The responsibility for making operational decisions are left to local divisions of the company. Nestlé has a board of directors and a chief executive. Nestlé’s management is divided into three levels – top-level, mid-level, and lower-level.

Nestlé began with the merger, in 1905, of two rival milk companies, the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company (established 1866) and Société Farine Lactée, (established 1867) by Henri Nestlé (Nestle, 2015). Headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, the new company’s growth was precipitous; mergers, global expansion and new products energised its progress. Within a few years of the start of the 20th Century it had manufacturing plants or warehousing facilities in several countries, including the United States, the UK, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bombay and Brazil (Bell and Shelman, 2009).

Technology gives many opportunities for the development of new products or improvement of existing ones. New techniques of marketing such as internet and e-commerce are important to focus in this modern era. Therefore Nestle uses technology in several business operations like to maintain the databases with the help of software. Nestle should follow such a maxim that accelerate innovation with the help of technological advancements. Nestle is already using the state of the art technology for the production of various products, they are meeting the global standards by installing the contemporary

Nestle company had started off from the owner, Henri Nestle. He is a pharmacist and developed a milk food formula for infants who were unable tolerate their mother milk. This product becomes success and it obtains demand throughout Europe. As Nestle reputation grew it attract more business wanted to become partner with Nestle. The successful of the Nestle Company which allow them to expand to new region and domain throughout the world, become the world’s biggest food and Beverage Company. Nestlé’s headquarters are located in Vevey, Switzerland, but the Nestlé Company has factories or operation in almost every country in the world. Nestle was published in 1998 and it had employed 230,000 people worldwide, with $71.7 billion in sales. Nestle increased the variety of their product they offer. The Nestle business strategy is encourage product growth through innovation and renovation. This strategy allows Nestle to develop different product to fulfil their customers throughout the world.

Since Henri Nestlé developed the first milk food for infants in 1867, and saved the life of a neighbor’s child, the Nestlé Company has aimed to build a business as the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company based on sound human values and principles.

Their main goal is they endeavour to bring buyers sustenance’s that are sheltered, of high calibre and give ideal supplement to address physiological issues. Nestlé gives choices to all individual taste and way of life inclinations.