Chocolate & confectionery
Our chocolate & confectionery brands
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KitKat
Have a break, have a KitKat
Smarties
Color the world
Aero
Feel the bubbles melt
Milkybar
Milk is the main ingredient
Baci Perugina
A taste of Italy
Delighting your tastebuds
In 1904, Nestlé started selling chocolate for the first time. But even before this landmark moment, the Nestlé company played an important role in the development of milk chocolate.
In 1875, Henri Nestlé supplied his Vevey neighbor, Daniel Peter, with concentrated milk, which Peter used to develop the world's first commercial milk chocolate. Then in 1929, Peter, Cailler, Kohler (Chocolats Suisses S.A.) merged with Nestlé Group to become one of the world’s largest chocolate producers.
Ever since, we've delighted people around the world with our range of chocolates, which today includes iconic brands such as KitKat and Smarties.
Cocoa
To make great chocolate, you need great cocoa. But life can be challenging for cocoa growers.
That’s why we launched the Nestlé Cocoa Plan back in 2009. It has engaged more than 180 000 cocoa-farming families so far, building on our three pillars. Better farming, aiming to help farmers improve their crops by. Better lives, aiming to improve social conditions for families by promoting empowering women and improving access to quality education. And Better cocoa, aiming to improve product sustainability by making our cocoa supply chain more transparent and traceable. By 2025, we aim to source 100% of our cocoa through the Nestlé Cocoa Plan.
We continued innovating and launched, in 2022, the Nestlé income accelerator, a family-centered approach, aiming to close the living income gap and reduce child labor risks by encouraging changes in behavior and rewarding positive practices – both within the home and on the farm. The program rewards cocoa-farming families for practices that benefit the environment and local community like shade tree planting. By looking at the family, we’re placing greater value on women as agents for positive change by helping empower them to share financial responsibilities.
Packaging
We’re making chocolates for the future.
For example, Smarties moved to recyclable paper packaging in 2021. That’s part of a bigger story: at Nestlé we’re committed to ensuring that 95% of our plastic packaging will be designed for recycling and reduce our virgin plastic by 1/3 by 2025.
For KitKat, recently tested the KitKat recyclable paper packaging in Australia and continuing to expend packaging made with recycled plastic in Europe.
Explore our cocoa actions
The Nestlé Cocoa Plan, along with Rainforest Alliance certification, allows us to take steps to address these social and environmental issues to create a sustainable cocoa supply chain.
We launched a holistic approach to getting kids in school, accelerating farmer income and supporting families.
Farmers educate us. We educate farmers. And, together, we help make a positive impact on the planet and on farm families.
