Nestlé Raises Prices and Cuts Non-Core Products Amid Cost Surge
Nestlé is raising prices and tightening internal cost-efficiency as operational friction grows among ingredient and packaging suppliers amid logistics constraints and energy overhead. To protect margins, it is reformulating or discontinuing price-sensitive product lines and overhauling its portfolio toward core categories like dairy, coffee, and culinary nutrition, while divesting bottled-water stakes and exiting vitamins. Nutrition label scrutiny is intensifying, including in India.