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====Timeline==== * 1866: Charles Page ([[Switzerland–United States relations#Diplomatic relations|US consul to Switzerland]]) and George Page, brothers from [[Lee County, Illinois]] established the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in [[Cham, Switzerland|Cham]], Switzerland. The company's first British operation was opened at [[Chippenham]], Wiltshire in 1873.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102814 'Other industries', A History of the County of Wiltshire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121140334/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=102814 |date=21 November 2011 }}: Volume 4 (1959), pp. 220–253. Retrieved 14 August 2010</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nestle-SA|title=Nestle SA {{!}} History, Headquarters, & Subsidiaries|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=16 January 2020|archive-date=4 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804133805/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nestle-SA|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1867: In Vevey, Switzerland, [[Henri Nestlé]] developed milk-based baby food and soon began marketing it. The following year, [[Daniel Peter]] began seven years of work perfecting the [[Types of chocolate|milk chocolate]] manufacturing process. Nestlé had the solution Peter needed to fix his problem of removing all the water from the milk added to his chocolate, thus preventing the product from developing mildew. * 1875: Henri Nestlé retired; the company, under new ownership, retained his name as ''Société Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://houseofswitzerland.org/swissstories/history/henri-nestle-man-behind-global-enterprise|title=Henri Nestlé: the man behind the global enterprise | House of Switzerland|date=17 September 2018|website=houseofswitzerland.org}}</ref> * 1877: Anglo-Swiss added milk-based baby foods to its products; in the following year, the Nestlé Company added [[condensed milk]] to its portfolio, which made the firms direct rivals. * 1879: Nestlé merged with milk chocolate inventor Daniel Peter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/MilkChocolate.htm|title=Milk Chocolate History|last=Stradley|first=Linda|date=3 November 2015|website=What's Cooking America|language=en-US|access-date=16 January 2020|archive-date=12 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212054953/https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/MilkChocolate.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> * 1890: Henri Nestlé died.
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