Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.

* Pet food ( Nestlé Purina Pet Care )

* Nestlé Purina received in 2010 the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for their excellence in the areas of leadership, customer and market focus, strategic planning, process management, measurement, analysis and knowledge management, workforce focus and results.

Tender Vittles was a brand of cat food manufactured by Nestlé under the Purina name.

The cat food was previously made by Ralston Purina Company, which was purchased by Nestlé.

Towards the late 1980s and in the 1990s, the company came under much more competition from what became Nestlé Purina PetCare.

In 1900 Edgerly joined forces with the founder of Purina Food Company, which took the name Ralston Purina Company ( now Nestlé Purina PetCare ).

It merged on December 12, 2001 with Swiss food giant Nestlé S. A .' s, Friskies PetCare Company to become Nestlé Purina PetCare Company.

Nestlé S. A. and Ralston Purina announced in January 2001 a definitive merger agreement.

Purina brands are now made and marketed by a division of Nestlé ( Nestlé Purina PetCare ) which is still headquartered in St. Louis.

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Nestlé S. A. and Ralston Purina announced in January 2001 a definitive merger agreement.

Purina brands are now made and marketed by a division of Nestlé ( Nestlé Purina PetCare ) which is still headquartered in St. Louis.

Nestlé Purina PetCare Company announced on March 30, 2007, a precautionary measure to voluntarily withdraw its 5. 3 ounce Mighty Dog brand pouch products that were produced by Menu Foods, Inc. from December 3, 2006, through March 14, 2007.

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Beggin ' Strips are a brand of dog treats manufactured and sold in North America by Nestlé's Nestlé Purina PetCare division.

Hayes has always been heavily involved with industry, both local and international, and is ( or has been ) the home of EMI, Nestlé and H. J. Heinz Company.

Opposite Nestlé on the other side of the canal, the Aeolian Company and its associates manufactured player pianos and rolls from just before World War I until the Great Depression.

Subsequent to the closing of the Nestlé plant, investors from Côte d ' Ivoire purchased the chocolate factory and attempted to reopen it as ' New York Chocolate and Confections Company '.

Of the major cosmetics firms, the largest is L ' Oréal, which was founded by Eugene Schueller in 1909 as the French Harmless Hair Colouring Company ( now owned by Liliane Bettencourt 26 % and Nestlé 28 %; the remaining 46 % is traded publicly ).

The company formerly owned the Gerber Products Company, a major infant and baby products producer, but sold it to Nestlé on 1 September 2007 .< ref >

Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé.

In 1877 Anglo-Swiss added milk-based baby foods to their products and in the following year the Nestlé Company added condensed milk so that the firms became direct and fierce rivals.

In 1905 the companies merged to become the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, retaining that name until 1947 when the name Nestlé Alimentana SA was taken as a result of the acquisition of Fabrique de Produits Maggi SA ( founded 1884 ) and its holding company Alimentana SA of Kempttal, Switzerland.

Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, in answer to a question from Greenpeace, told the Company ’ s Annual General Meeting in Lausanne on 15 April 2010 that in 2009 Nestlé used 320, 000 tonnes of palm oil worldwide, comparing this with the 500, 000 tonnes of palm oil used for biodiesel in Germany and Italy alone.

* Nestlé ( Anglo / Swiss Condensed Milk Company )

In 2007, Gerber was sold to the Nestlé Company for $ 5. 5 billion.

The original product was invented by Nestlé of The Drumstick Company in 1928.

Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection that was created by Rowntree's of York, England, and is now produced worldwide by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under licence by The Hershey Company.

Kit Kat bars in the United States are produced under licence by The Hershey Company, a Nestlé competitor, due to a prior licensing agreement with Rowntree.

Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including Yummy Mummy on Life Network and Discovery Health in the U. S. among other countries, Popstars-The One ( Global ), Real Life with Erica Ehm ( Life Network ), Power Play ( Discovery Channel Canada ), The Company ( TVOntario ), Nestlé Baby and You ( Rogers Cable ) and Science: From A to Ehm.

Winner of the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award I, Coriander, by Sally Gardner is a fantasy novel in which the heroine lives on the banks of the Thames.

It is notable for the Calisia piano factory and for the Winiary and Ziołopex food processing plants ( the former is now part of the Nestlé group ), the Big Star jeans factory, and the Hellena, Jutrzenka, and Kaliszanka soft-drink production plants.

Wakefield is said to have been making chocolate cookies and on running out of regular baker's chocolate, substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestlé thinking that they would melt and mix into the batter.

Every bag of Nestlé chocolate chips sold in North America has a variation ( butter vs. margarine is now a stated option ) of her original recipe printed on the back.

Although the Nestlé's Toll House recipe is widely known, every brand of chocolate chips, or " semi-sweet chocolate morsels " in Nestlé parlance, sold in the U. S. and Canada bears a variant of the chocolate chip cookie recipe on its packaging.

If Hershey is sold, the rights to make and market Kit Kat and Rolo products in the U. S. would revert to Nestlé.

Nestlé is located in Marysville, and in recent years improved their facilities with a modern, multi-million dollar makeover.

* Buxton water, a bottled mineral water produced by Nestlé, whose source is in Buxton

Nestlé is located on the west side of the city, and in recent years improved their facilities with a modern, multi-million dollar makeover.

At the beginning of the 21st century, a large water bottling plant was built on the outskirts of town by Nestlé, where water is bottled from Bennet Hill Springs, a source of Freestone water.

Nestlé S. A. is a Swiss multinational nutritional and health-related consumer goods company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland.

The Laboratoires Inneov is a joint venture in nutritional cosmetics between Nestlé and L ' Oréal, while Galderma is a joint venture in dermatology with L ' Oréal.

Nestlé is the biggest food company in the world, with a market capitalisation of roughly 191 billion Swiss francs, which is more than 200 billion U. S. dollars.

One of the most prominent controversies involving Nestlé concerns the promotion of the use of infant formula to mothers across the world, including developing countries – an issue that attracted significant attention in 1977 as a result of the Nestlé boycott, which is still going.

Nestlé continues to draw criticism that it is in violation of a 1981 World Health Organization code that regulates the advertising of breast milk substitutes.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a complaint against Nestlé to the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards after Nestlé took out full-page advertisements in October 2008 claiming that " Most water bottles avoid landfill sites and are recycled ", " Nestlé Pure Life is a healthy, eco-friendly choice " and that " Bottled water is the most environmentally responsible consumer product in the world ".