SWITZ: Nestlé to open US$20m chocolate R&D site
By: just-food.com | 10 March 2008
Nestlé is to open a CHF20m (US$19.6m) chocolate "centre of excellence", the company's first R&D facility dedicated to the development of premium and luxury chocolate.
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Nestlé is to open a CHF20m (US$19.6m) chocolate "centre of excellence", the company's first R&D facility dedicated to the development of premium and luxury chocolate.
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