Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider has conveyed his disappointment that supply chain problems impacting the firm’s vitamin, mineral and supplement sales in North America have not been resolved more quickly.
'Deeper And More Complex' – Nestlé CEO Bemoans VMS Supply Chain Problems
Supply problems for Nestlé’s US dietary supplement brands “were more fundamental than initially we have estimated,” according to CEO Mark Schneider. Nestlé now expects the issue – first flagged up last year – won’t be fully resolved until the end of the first half of 2024.
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