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
The Nestlé Cocoa Plan was launched back in 2009. It has engaged more than a 175 000 cocoa-farming families so far, building on our three pillars. Better farming, aiming to improve livelihoods in communities. Better lives, aiming to help cocoa families to enhance their social conditions. And Better cocoa, aiming to improve product cocoa traceability. In 2025, we sourced 96.2% 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 specific 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 change by helping empower them to share financial responsibilities.
Discover more on our cocoa programs
