Nestle. Case study

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Nestle Case Study
Group 8: Sohum Mehta, Johannes Matthias, Rahil Poojara, Austin
Cunningham, Xiaoya Li

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• Largest nutrition and foods company in the world
• Founded and headquarterd in Vevey, Switzerland
• Nestle originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk
Company which was founded by Henri Nestle in 1866
• Company grew significantly during the WWI and WWII
• Operates in 86 countries
• Employees 283,000 individuals.

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Key Figures
• Revenue 107.6 billion
• Operating Income 15.7 billion
• Profit 10.43 billion
• Total Assets 110.9 billion
• Total Equity 53.63 billion (2009)

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• Nestle has 8500 brands with a wide range of products across a number
of markets including:
• coffee
• bottled water
• other beverages
• chocolate
• ice cream
• infant foods
• confectionary
• pet food
•…

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Growth Strategies
Forced by Switzerlands small size
Established its first foreign offices in U.S.A and
Great Britain in the late 19th century
Australia, South America, Africa and Asia in the first
three decades of the 20th century.
By the late 1990s, Nestle had 500 factories in 76
countries, sold products in 193 nations
3% of its employees are located in Switzerland

6. Emerging Markets

• Does it make sense for Nestle to focus on emerging markets?
• Infrastructure / Political difficulties ?!
• Nestlé Emerging Markets Division imports products from
more than 20 countries, and exporting products to more than
40 countries.

7. Profits of Adversity

• Nestlé's sales in emerging markets up 8.5% last year
• Double the rate of the company’s total revenue
• Sales from those regions totaled $33.15 Billion, more than any
rival.

8. Growth of Emerging Markets Propensity

• 1 billion consumers in emerging markets will increase their
incomes enough to be able to afford Nestle products within
the next decade.
• 1/3 of its revenue from emerging economies and aims to lift
that to 45% within a decade.
- CEO Paul Bulcke

9. Population Growth Distribution

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12. Investing In Emerging Markets

• “Nestle will receive $28.1 billion from Novartis for its majority
stake in Alcon, the maker of Opti-Free contact lens cleaners,
giving it a cash pile exceeding the $26.5 billion that Google
had on its books at the end of March. The Swiss company is
starting a new 10 billion-franc buyback programme, though
Nestle would rather invest in its business or make
acquisitions”
– CFO Jim Singh said on June 22

13. Investing in Emerging Markets

• “Nestle may purchase bottled water businesses in markets
such as China”
• Frits van Dijk, head of Nestle’s Asian business, on June
22.
• “Acquisitions would also be considered to expand its business
selling nutrition products for athletes, such as PowerBar”
• Nestle Nutrition CEO Richard Laube
• Start cheap and introduce luxury later

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Strategy to work effectively
• Flexibility is another distinctive competencies which Nestle
company was able to achieve to react as quickly as possible to
changing environments.
• As a consequence, company was able to respond to changes in
local demand, cultural barriers and political fluctuation.
• Ethnocentric behavior must be avoided in any circumstances in
order to approach the market in the appropriated .

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• The Nestle company uses that approach in order to the
convenient fact that the consumer is easier to reached
because he is accustomed to this brand name and they
think they know what they are buying.
• The Nestle strategy was to be cultural awareness, which
means a company should employ locals in order lower
cultural barriers and resentments established by the
foreigner.
• Nestle believes that, the key to their success is
customization rather than exaggerated globalization.

16. Nestlé's strategy in emerging markets

Nestlé's  strategy in emerging markets
The Key strategy:
Customization rather than globalization.

17. Executing the strategy

Executing the strategy
Flexibility
Local adaptation
A long­term focus

18. Executing the strategy

Executing the strategy
In Nigeria: the company 
hired local singers to go to 
towns and villages offering a 
mix of entertainment and 
product demonstrations.
In China: Nestlé established 
its own distribution network, 
known as milk roads.

19. Nestle Organizational Structure

• Moving from Localization strategy to Transnational strategy
• Includes first mover advantage, local economies, global web,
economies of scale
• Strong local responsiveness, but production, training, and
R&D becoming centralized
• Management practices – spread knowledge, create learning
effects, and transfer core competencies
• “Glocal” philosophy and creating value

20. Nestle Organizational Structure

• Seven global strategic business units classified by food type
(worldwide production divisional structure)
• Five regional units by geography (worldwide area structure)
• Has created a global matrix structure
• Example of a global matrix structure:

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22. Findings and Future

• Strategy succeeding and applicable to markets and countries
• Need for tighter integration at matrix points
• Focus on healthier, more nutritious products
• Raise revenue from developing countries from 33% to 45% of
total revenue within 10 years
• Will receive $28.1 billion for its stake in Alcon