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Nestlé to cut 16,000 jobs globally: New CEO pushes restructuring to revive growth

Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has announced it will slash 16,000 jobs over the next two years.

Nestle plans to slash 16,000 jobs as new CEO speeds up turnaround

The reductions, which would amount to about 6 per cent of the workforce, will be made over the next two years, the maker of Nespresso coffee capsules and KitKat candy bars said

Eternal, Infosys Q2 results, India responds to Trump’s oil claim, Nestle to axe 16k jobs

Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, reported a consolidated net profit of ₹65 crore for Q2 FY26, marking a 63% YoY decline from ₹176 crore in the same quarter last year.

Nestle India Q2 results: Consolidated net profit slips 17.4% to ₹743 cr

FMCG major Nestle India Ltd on Thursday reported a 17.37 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 743.17 crore for the September 2025 quarter. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 899.5 crore a year ago, according to a regulatory filing by Nestle India. The company said its revenue increased 11 per cent to Rs 5,630.23 crore in the September quarter, from Rs 5,074.76 crore in the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The total expenses of Nestle India rose 12.9 per cent to Rs 4,616.73 crore in the second quarter of this financial year. In the September quarter, Nestle India's domestic sales climbed 10.8 per cent to Rs 5,411.02 crore, as against Rs 4,883.14 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal. Its exports surged 14.4 per cent to Rs 219.21 crore. Chairman and Managing Director Manish Tiwary said domestic sales grew at a double-digit rate, led by volume growth. "Three out of four product groups delivered strong volume, led by double-digit g

Nightmare at Nestle: World's biggest food company faces a reckoning

The share price has dropped more than 40 per cent since a peak in 2022, hit by falling volumes, bloated costs, volatile consumer demand, and missteps by a management team

Nestle chairman Paul Bulcke to step down days after CEO dismissal

Bulcke will be succeeded by Vice Chairman Pablo Isla, effective October 1. Bulcke was earlier supposed to hand over the reins to Isla in April 2026

HUL, Nestle: FMCG stocks rise up to 7% on GST reforms; analysts weigh

Nifty FMCG rose 2.66 per cent in early deals after the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday, simplified the GST structure

How an anonymous hotline tip led to the dismissal of Nestle CEO Freixe

Nestle has dismissed its chief executive, Laurent Freixe, following an internal investigation. Philipp Navratil has been appointed the new CEO to lead the company forward

Nestle dismisses CEO Laurent Freixe over code breach, appoints Navratil

Nestle said the dismissal followed a probe into an undisclosed relationship, as leadership changes continue at the world's biggest food company

Trouble brews at Nestle: CEO's ouster raises questions on what's next

Nestle dismissed its CEO Laurent Freixe, with immediate effect after an internal investigation confirmed his romantic involvement with a direct subordinate

Keurig Dr Pepper brews coffee challenge with $18 bn JDE Peet's takeover

The deal, announced on Monday and offering a 20 per cent premium to JDE Peet's closing market price on Friday

Startups, regional brands good for business, says Nestle India CMD

Startups and regional brands are not only good for providing variety to consumers but also give established players the push to improve their product offerings, Nestle India's outgoing Chairman & Managing Director Suresh Narayanan said. Stressing on the importance of startups and regional brands operating in small catchment areas, Narayanan said Nestle India is working with startups as part of its accelerator program, to identify their potential and see how to partner with them. "Startups and regional brands are good for the business. They do two things -one, they extend the variety for the consumer, and secondly, they give us additional inspiration for improving, making ourselves faster and smarter," Narayanan told PTI during an interview earlier this week. According to Narayanan, today every brand has to be relevant to Gen Z and Gen Alpha consumers, who do not give much importance to the historical relevance of brands. "It goes by what is in it for me, so Maggi noodles have to ..

Crisis does not come with a calling card: Nestle MD Suresh Narayanan

An aspiring civil servant who became an accidental corporate executive and eventually Nestle's 'crisis man', Nestle India's outgoing Chairman and Managing Director Suresh Narayanan believes crisis does not come with a calling card and wants his successor to keep the organisation vigilant. In an interview with PTI before he hangs up his boots at the end of this month, Narayanan, who brought back Nestle India from an 'existential crisis' in 2015 after the Maggi fiasco to a thriving organisation, said there is opportunity even in crisis, and engaging with community, people and focusing on the goal of satisfying the consumer is a leadership he learnt from his varied experiences, including in Egypt. Having gone through crises, including leading Nestle Singapore during Lehman Brothers collapse, and Nestle Egypt during the Arab Spring, Narayanan quipped that once his "boss" asked him to consult his astrologer and check his horoscope. "The next crisis is always round the corner. So you cann

India is key driver of future growth for Nestle, says MD Suresh Narayanan

India will be a 'key driver of growth for the future' for Nestle which has "faith" in the market that offers a 'large consumption basket', according to Suresh Narayanan, the outgoing Chairman & Managing Director of its Indian arm. The economic and political stability offered by India coupled with 'high consumer resonance' of the company's brands make it an attractive market, he told PTI in an interview. The Swiss FMCG major, which had faced an existential crisis with the Maggi fiasco in 2015, has long left behind the chapter and is investing to enhance capacity, product innovations, expansion of sales network to digitisation for having a "value added journey", said Narayanan who will be retiring by end of July. "I can foresee that even if I am not there at the helm, but the market attraction, the levels of investment and the future of Nestle will continue to be bright in this country," he said when asked how he saw Nestle in the next five years in India. Elaborating, he said, "I ..

Nestle India Q1 profit down 13% to Rs 647 cr, Manish Tiwary named CMD

Nestle India's Q1 profit declined for a second quarter amid high costs; volume growth in key categories and strong e-commerce helped offset margin pressures

Crisis is the new normal: Nestle India's outgoing CMD to successor

FMCG market stabilising now, Narayanan tells shareholders during company's AGM

Nestle to name ex-Zara chief Pablo Isla as next chairman in April 2026

Bulcke, a 70-year-old Belgian and Swiss national who has been chairman of the board since April 2017, joined Nestle in 1979 and served as the company's CEO from 2008 to 2016

Nestle SA makes first India funding, buys stake in pet food brand

The global FMCG giant has acquired a minority stake in pet food brand Drools, which recently achieved unicorn status and will remain operationally independent

Nestle India tumbles 4%, nears 52-wk low as BoFA downgrades to Underperform

The decline in Nestle's share price came after reports suggested that global brokerage firm BoFA Securities has downgraded the stock to 'Underperform' from 'Neutral.'

Nestle India considering price hikes to counter commodity inflation

Profits at Corporate India came under pressure in the October-December quarter due to the double whammy of consumers cutting back due to inflation in large cities and high prices of commodities