Many American consumers know Nestle primarily for its candy bars. However, it is also the world's largest food company, and chocolate comprises only about 10% of global sales. Now, the company is concentrating specifically on healthy foods, reorganizing to create a stand-alone nutrition division as of April 1 in the U.S. and globally on January 1, 2006.
The unit will include everything from baby formula to PowerBars. In 2004, four years after Nestle bought the PowerBar brand, nutrition products brought the company more than $ 4 billion in global sales.