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Ukraine designates Nestle as 'international sponsor of war' (kyivindependent.com)
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Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) added Nestle to its list of "international sponsors of war," for its continued business in Russia, the agency's press service announced on Nov. 2.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They sell a lot more than just chocolate.
A small selection of their brands that are popular in the US:

  • Hot Pockets
  • DiGirorno frozen pizzas
  • California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizzas
  • Stouffer's
  • Lean Cuisine
  • Häagen-Dazs
  • Nature's Bounty supplements
  • Boost nutrition drinks
  • Orgain protein powder
  • Purina pet food
  • Alpo pet food
  • Mighty Dog pet food
  • Fancy Feast pet food
  • Tidy Cat litter
  • Toll House cookie dough
  • Coffee-Mate creamer
  • After Eight mints
  • Taster's choice coffee
  • Starbucks coffee (licensed)
  • Blue Bottle Coffee
  • San Pellegrino water
  • Ovaltine
  • Sweet Leaf Tea
  • Carnation evaporated and condensed milk
  • Nesquick
  • Nestea
  • Nescafe

They're harder to boycott than a lot of other companies because they hide behind a lot of brands.

[–] scutiger 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's honestly not that hard. I haven't bought their products in a few years now. There are alternatives for all of these products, many of which are actually better. They just don't have the name recognition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely, the hard part is keeping track of which brands they own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah. Even a popular infographic someone made a few years ago, which still gets posted, is outdated because of brands changing owners.

I’d like it if companies were legally obligated to prominently display the name of their parent company. Right now, companies are allowed to operate under what are effectively aliases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, if it's 20 layers deep, guess you better dedicate a whole side of the packaging to listing who owns who.

I'd also not be against limits on how deep it can go. That could easily be an antitrust thing, especially in the case of Nestle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't know about Blue Bottle 😭

[–] UltraMagnus0001 2 points 1 year ago

on that list the only thing I get once in a while is digiorno