{"id":54214,"date":"2026-04-23T10:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54214\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:23:17","slug":"nestle-sales-down-5-7-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/54214\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 sales down 5.7% in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The The logo of food producer Nestle is a pictured on a package of ‘Smarties’ in Wiesbaden. Fredrik von Erichsen\/dpa <\/p>\n

Swiss food giant Nestl\u00e9 reported a 5.7% decline in first-quarter sales on Thursday, reflecting weaker performance across all geographic zones as well as in Nespresso and its Waters & Premium Beverages unit.<\/p>\n

Group sales fell to CHF 21.32 billion ($27.16 billion) from CHF 22.6 billion a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Organic growth was 3.5%, supported by pricing and modest volume gains, with real internal growth (RIG) at 1.2%.<\/p>\n

Sales declined across all regions. Zone Americas revenue fell 6.7% to CHF 9.11 billion, while Zone Asia, Oceania and Africa dropped 8.7% to CHF 5.22 billion. Zone Europe sales edged down 0.8% to CHF 4.62 billion.<\/p>\n

Despite the decline in reported sales, all zones and globally managed businesses delivered positive organic growth, with coffee emerging as the primary growth driver.<\/p>\n

RIG was positive across all regions and categories, except for infant formula within the Nutrition segment.<\/p>\n

In developed markets, organic growth was 2.8%, including 1.2% RIG and 1.6% pricing.<\/p>\n

Emerging markets posted organic growth of 4.6%, with RIG of 1.2% and pricing of 3.4%. Excluding China, emerging markets grew 6.8%, driven by 2.9% RIG and 3.9% pricing.<\/p>\n

The company said an infant formula recall reduced first-quarter organic growth by about 90 basis points, mainly affecting RIG. Product availability has since normalized.<\/p>\n

Nestl\u00e9 reiterated its fiscal 2026 outlook, continuing to expect organic growth of around 3% to 4%, with RIG accelerating versus 2025.<\/p>\n

The outlook reflects increased geopolitical uncertainty and macroeconomic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The logo of food producer Nestle is a pictured on a package of ‘Smarties’ in Wiesbaden. Fredrik von…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[962,199,9218,8499],"class_list":{"0":"post-54214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nestle","8":"tag-chf","9":"tag-nestle","10":"tag-organic-growth","11":"tag-reported-sales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116453533569943190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}