{"id":37264,"date":"2025-09-01T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:17:07","slug":"nestle-dismisses-ceo-laurent-freixe-after-investigation-into-romantic-relationship-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/37264\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 dismisses CEO Laurent Freixe after investigation into \u2018romantic relationship\u2019 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nestl\u00e9 has named Philipp Navratil as its new chief executive after the sudden dismissal of company veteran Laurent Freixe, who had been with the company for nearly 40 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Swiss consumer goods company said Freixe\u2019s departure followed an investigation into an \u201cundisclosed romantic relationship\u201d with a direct subordinate which breached its code of business conduct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThis was a necessary decision. Nestl\u00e9\u2019s values and governance are strong foundations of our company. I thank Laurent for his years of service at Nestl\u00e9,\u201d said chair Paul Bulcke. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Navratil is another Nestl\u00e9 stalwart. He started as an auditor in 2001 and has since led businesses across Latin America and the global coffee portfolio, most recently at Nespresso. He joined the executive board earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 has named Philipp Navratil as its new chief executive after the sudden dismissal of company veteran Laurent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,19893],"class_list":{"0":"post-37264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-nestle"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}