Farine Lactée Nestlé was a mixture of cow's milk, wheat flour and sugar, for consumption by infants who could not be breastfed. Around this time, he starts using the now iconic ‘Nest’ logo.
Heinrich Nestlé was born in Frankfurt in 1814. Before turned 22 years old in 1836, he had completed a 4-year apprenticeship with J. E. Stein, an owner of a pharmacy.
At the end of 1839, he was officially authorized to perform chemical experiments, make up prescriptions, and sell medicines.
In 1867 Henri Nestlé, began a milk-food production company in the small town of Vevey. His first product, Farine Lactée, was a quick success.
In 1875, Henri Nestle and Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate by blending milk with chocolate. Milk chocolate boomed in Europe, but the growing market for chocolate was increasingly more crowded.
Henri Nestlé retired in 1875 and sells his company and factory in Vevey to three local businessmen, but the company, under new ownership, retained his name as Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé.
By the same year, Nestlé's products were sold everywhere from Indonesia to Egypt, and from the US to Argentina. They employ chemists and skilled workers to help expand production and sales.
In August 1866, Charles A. Page and George Page, brothers from the United States, established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in Cham, Switzerland.
In 1905 these two companies (Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company), after years of fierce competition during which both selling rival versions of the other's original products (condensed milk and infant cereal), merge to form the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Milk Company.
Henri Nestlé – founder of Nestlé S.A.
