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
Nestlé Les Recettes de l'Atelier
Chocolate with artisanal spirit
Milkybar
Milk is the main ingredient
Baci Perugina
A taste of Italy
Quality Street
Take a stroll down Quality Street
Fitness
Fitness never tasted so good
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.
Sustainable cocoa
To make great chocolate, you need great cocoa. But life can be challenging for cocoa growers.
That's why we developed the Nestlé Cocoa Plan: for better farming, better lives and better cocoa. We train farmers to improve practices, and we also develop plants that improve yield and cut disease. And by 2025, we aim to source 100% of our cocoa through the plan.
We're also helping to improve the livelihoods of cocoa-farming families with our Income Accelerator Program: households get a direct cash incentive for positive actions, including enrolling children in schools, good agricultural practices such as pruning, and agroforestry activities that increase climate resilience.
In 2022, the Living Income Accelerator Program will include 10,000 families in Côte d'Ivoire, before extending to Ghana in 2024. By 2030, we'll include every cocoa-farming family in our global cocoa supply chain.
Sustainable packaging
We're making chocolates for the future.
For example, Smarties was the first global confectionary brand to move to more widely recyclable paper packaging in 2021. That's part of a bigger story: at Nestlé we're committed to help ensuring that our packaging is reduced, recyclable or reusable by 2025.
For KitKat, one way we’re doing that is through plant-based alternatives, including KitKat Vegan – crispy wafers coated in smooth chocolate. Also, we recently introduced the KitKat recyclable paper packaging as pilot test in a few markets.
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.
