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...midst of a growth spurt that saw Nestle double its sales, to $60 billion, in a decade and cement its position as the world's largest food company. With brands that include Stouffer's frozen dinners, Perrier and Pellegrino water, Nescafe coffee, Friskies cat food, Carnation milk, Buitoni pasta and After Eight chocolate mints, it's the leader in hundreds of product categories worldwide. But Brabeck isn't satisfied. "The most important role I have in this organization is fighting against complacency," he says. His overriding goal: to double Nestle's sales once again, this time more cost efficiently...
Back in Austria, he abandoned plans to earn a doctorate, joined Findus and was soon posted to Chile. President Salvador Allende was then in power trying to implement his "Chilean road to socialism," and Brabeck recalls spending much of his time trying to dissuade government officials from nationalizing milk production. He also had to deal with militant labor officials on the factory floor who could bring operations to a standstill...
...Cuban exhibitors needed refrigerators for their shrimp. Brabeck lent them some. When the fair opened, Castro came over with a box of smokes to say thank you. But the Cuban leader's biggest gift, Brabeck says, was to warn Allende of the problems Cuba had encountered when it nationalized milk. That gave Nestle valuable breathing space...
...perhaps not all of them. Jeffrey Miron, the department’s director of undergraduate studies, says he drives a red ’98 Toyota Sienna minivan “well encrusted with chocolate milk spills, French fries, moldy golf shoes, and the like...
...brought her three-year-old to my office, but was ignoring the little monster as he ripped up magazines, threw fish crackers and Cheerios, and stomped them into my rug. I tried to ignore him too, which was hard as he dribbled chocolate milk from his sippy cup all over my upholstered chairs. Eventually his screeching made conversation impossible...