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Company: Nestle
Current Parent Company: Nestle
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Penalty: $325,000
Year: 2009
Date: February 26, 2009
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Coca-Cola, Nestle and their joint venture Beverage Partnership Worldwide agreed to pay a total of $650,000 to settle multistate litigation alleging that they made questionable claims while marketing a green tea beverage called Enviga. The announcement did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume the amount was split evenly between them.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: Switzerland
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: food products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: food products
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