Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition

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Nestlé-Wyeth Nutrition (formerly owned by Pfizer after the acquisition of Wyeth in 2009) provides food products to meet the needs of infants, young children and adults. Through scientific research, they claim to help nourish children when breastfeeding is not an option. Wyeth Nutrition started in 1915 when Henry Grestberger manufactured the first formula patterned after breast milk called SMA (synthetic milk adaptive). Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, formerly Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, is the original company founded by the Wyeth brothers, originally known as John Wyeth and Brother. They focused on the research, development, and marketing of prescription drugs. The pharmaceuticals division was further subdivided into five subdivisions: Wyeth Research, Prescription Products, Biotech, Vaccines, and Nutritionals. Wyeth's research and development director Robert Ruffolo was quoted in The New York Times about the firm's efforts to develop new drugs.^[1]^[2]

Acquisition by Nestlé

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On 23 April 2012, Nestlé agreed to acquire Pfizer Inc.'s infant-nutrition, formerly Wyeth Nutrition, unit for US$11.9 billion, topping a joint bid from Danone and Mead Johnson.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Notes and references

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^ Gina kolata (March 28, 2004). "Ideas & Trends: Of Mice and Men; Why Test Animals to Cure Human Depression?". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-26. But Dr. Robert R. Ruffolo, president of research and development at Wyeth,...
^ Andrew pollack (June 14, 2010). "Awaiting the Genome Payoff". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-12-26. "If on the first day we had discovered a new molecular target, it's still going to take 15 to 20 years to make the drug," said Robert R. Ruffolo Jr., who ran research and development at Wyeth until 2008.
^ "Nestlé to Acquire Pfizer Baby Food Unit for $11.9 Billion". Bloomberg, 23 April 2012
^ "Mead Johnson looks tasty, but Abbott may have to pass".
^ "Nestlé to buy Pfizer Nutrition for $11.85bn". NewStatesman. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

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Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition
Divested	BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America)

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Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T SICAL
Baby nutrition	BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido
Baking	Libby's Toll House cookies
Bottled water	Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel
Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)^6,7 Trix¹ Shreddies⁷ Shredded Wheat⁷
Chocolate and desserts	Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Bono Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch¹² Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat³ Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers¹⁴ Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁴ Svitoch TEX Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo
Coffee and beverages	Abuelita Alpine⁸ Acticor BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation^8,9 Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Chuckie Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Huesitos Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nescafé Azera Nescafé Gold Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine⁴ Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks ¹³ Supligen Sweet Leaf Zoégas
Dairy products	Alpine⁸ Bear Brand^10,11 Carnation^8,9 Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik
Ice cream	D'Onofrio Drumstick¹⁵ Eskimo Pie¹⁵ Fab Frosty Paws¹⁵ Häagen-Dazs^2,15 Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat¹⁵ Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Savory Smarties
Prepared and packaged food and snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Winiary Wagner Yinlu Foods
Purina PetCare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws ONE Winalot
Uncle Tobys	Cheerios¹ PLUS Weeties
Former brands and subsidiaries	Alcon Alfasigma Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's¹⁵ Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills

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¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. ² Brand owned by General Mills; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. ³ U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁴ U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. ⁵ U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. ⁶ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. ⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in the U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. ⁸ Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation. ⁹ Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave. ¹⁰ Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. ¹¹ Used only in the Philippines. ¹² U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company. ¹³ NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under the Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. ¹⁴ Brand owned by Mars, sold by Nestlé in Canada. ¹⁵ Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020.

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