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'Deeper And More Complex' – Nestlé CEO Bemoans VMS Supply Chain Problems

 
• By Tom Gallen

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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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.

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