Nestlé Organisation

Overview of the Nestlé Oceania region

Nestlé Oceania is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swiss-based, global food and beverages company, Nestlé S.A.

The Oceania region encompasses Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Nestlé Oceania employs more than 5,700 people in over 70 offices, factories and distribution centres strategically located across the region. Regional headquarters is at Rhodes in Sydney, not far from the site of the 2000 Olympic Games; New Zealand’s head office is based in Auckland.

The Nestlé Pacific Islands business (NPI) includes not only Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia and Fiji, but also French Polynesia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa and the small islands of Tuvalu, Niue, The Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Tokelau, Wallis & Futuna and Pitcairn. Many of these island nations are independent sovereign states with their own languages, cultures, governments, laws, currencies, purchasing patterns and distribution channels.

While much of our work is aimed at providing local products for local needs, we also take advantage of export opportunities where they arise, and every year Nestlé Oceania generates more than A$268 million selling our products and raw materials to foreign shores.

Other Nestlé operations

There are other Nestlé operations in the region which form part of the worldwide Nestlé Group but which operate quite independently from the entity known as Nestlé Oceania. These include Nestlé Purina PetCare pet food company, Nestlé Waters (PERRIER, S. PELLEGRINO and VITTEL) and Alcon Laboratories, a global leader in vision care. The Nestlé Group also has an interest of more than 26% in the world’s leading cosmetics company, L’Oreal. Together Nestlé and L’Oreal have leveraged their relationship by forming two further joint ventures, Galderma and Innéov, to develop leading edge products in dermatology and the new field of nutricosmetics.

For more details on Nestlé in Oceania, click here to download the PDF () Nestlé corporate brochure.