# Who does Nestlé S.A. pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/nestle · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-09-24T12:56:02.291402+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Nestlé S.A.'s confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include Starbucks, International Flavors & Fragrances, Mettler-Toledo International Inc. plus 2 undisclosed/aggregate relationships. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 5 cost edges, backed by 7 dated sources, 2 of them primary filings (as of 2026-09-24).

### Starbucks (high)  → /starbucks.md
- metric: Amount 7.15 USD10억 · 2018 선급 · Starbucks CPG rights acquisition (perpetual license)
- note: Under the 2018 Global Coffee Alliance, Nestle paid $7.15bn upfront for perpetual rights to market and sell Starbucks packaged coffee and tea (CPG) in retail and foodservice outside Starbucks stores, and pays Starbucks ongoing royalties; Starbucks is licensor and roast-and-ground supplier (the licensed business was about $2bn in annual sales).
- [confirms] Starbucks (EN, ir, published 2018-05-07) https://investor.starbucks.com/news/financial-releases/news-details/2018/Starbucks-and-Nestl-Form-Global-Coffee-Alliance-to-Elevate-and-Expand-Consumer-Packaged-Goods-and-Foodservice-Categories-Around-the-World/default.aspx: "Nestle paid Starbucks $7.15 billion in closing consideration for a perpetual license to market, sell and distribute Starbucks packaged coffee and tea in global at-home and away-from-home channels outside Starbucks stores."
- [confirms] CNBC (EN, news, published 2018-05-07) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/nestle-to-pay-7-point-15-billion-to-starbucks-in-coffee-tie-up.html: "Nestle is paying $7.15 billion for the rights to Starbucks' consumer business, with Starbucks remaining licensor and supplier of the coffee."

### 커피·코코아 원두 원자재 (high)
- note: Coffee and cocoa are Nestlé's key cost pressure. Cocoa and coffee cost inflation persisted through 2024-2025, pushing the 2025 gross margin down 110bps to 45.6%, which Nestlé partly offset with +2.8% pricing (high-single-digit in coffee and confectionery). Coffee elasticity stayed limited, keeping RIG slightly positive — evidence that brand pricing power is the buffer against cost spikes.
- [confirms] Nestlé S.A. (EN, filing, published 2026-02-19) https://www.nestle.com/media/pressreleases/allpressreleases/full-year-results-2025: "Gross margin -110bps to 45.6% on coffee/cocoa costs, only partially compensated by pricing and cost savings; pricing +2.8%."
- [confirms] Nestlé (EN, filing, published 2025-02-13) https://www.nestle.com/media/pressreleases/allpressreleases/full-year-results-2024: "Nestlé said price competitiveness is a priority amid high commodity inflation, most notably in coffee and cocoa, which pushed its second-half gross margin down 90 basis points."
- [confirms] Food & Beverage News (KO, news, published 2024-06-21) https://www.thinkfood.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=100610: "As cocoa futures spiked past $12,200 a tonne, Nestlé responded to cost inflation by launching products with a third of the usual chocolate content; deliveries from Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana fell 20% and 35%."

### 인터내셔널 플레이버스 앤 프래그런스 (high)  → /international-flavors-fragrances.md
- note: Nestlé S.A. names IFF as a direct supplier and lists Biovanilla and Planifolia as the associated curing sites in Madagascar in its 2018 vanilla supply-chain disclosure, while IFF's customer-specific revenue and the current contract status are undisclosed.
- [confirms] Nestlé (EN, ir, published 2019-02-06) https://www.nestle.com/sites/default/files/asset-library/documents/library/documents/suppliers/supply-chain-disclosure-vanilla.pdf: "Nestlé Direct Supplier: International Flavors & Fragrances; Biovanilla, Sambava; Planifolia; Madagascar."

### 유가공(원유)·포장재 (mid)
- note: Milk for dairy plus bottles and packaging are also major costs; Nestlé delivered over CHF 1.2 billion of efficiencies in 2024 through recipe reformulation and logistics redesign.
- [confirms] Nestlé (EN, filing, published 2025-02-13) https://www.nestle.com/media/pressreleases/allpressreleases/full-year-results-2024: "Nestlé delivered over CHF 1.2 billion of efficiencies in 2024 through recipe reformulation and plant and logistics redesign, partly offsetting raw-material and packaging costs."

### 메틀러 토레도 (mid)  → /mettler-toledo.md
- note: Nestlé used Mettler-Toledo titrators, moisture analyzers, balances, and quality-control systems at Nestlé Suisse's Basel plant and purchased a DL22 food analyzer, and because Mettler-Toledo disclosed that no end customer exceeded 1% of FY2025 sales, this is treated as a verifiable representative deployment rather than a customer concentration.
- [confirms] Mettler-Toledo (EN, ir, published 2006-04-01) https://www.mt.com/mt_ext_files/Editorial/Generic/8/SnackFood_0602_Editorial-Generic_1155026207001_files/SnackFood_News_2_en.pdf: "Nestlé bought METTLER TOLEDO's new DL22 Food and Beverage Analyzer. Other instruments such as the DL50 Graphix have been used for years."

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