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Quality Street fans have a treat in store this weekend if they visit the Bankfield Museum in Halifax. The Bankfield, who hold the world’s largest collection of Quality Street packaging and memorabilia, are holding a special exhibition of sweets to celebrate the town’s sweetest industry. Halifax has been known as Toffee Town for over a hundred years, and the Mackintosh’s toffee factory (now owned by Nestlé) is still making toffees and chocolates at the rate of a billion a year. Find more here.

Nestlé staff from across the UK participated in York Pride again this year, proudly raising their flags in support of greater equality for LGBT+ people. June is Pride Month and across the globe, events are taking place to celebrate LGBT+ people in society as well as raising awareness of the daily discrimination many still have to face. Find out more here.

Toque d’Or, the prestigious competition by Nestlé Professional, offers commis chef apprentices and students at catering colleges unique and exciting ‘real world’ experiences of what the hospitality industry has to offer in a career. In collaboration with businesses from all streams of industry, the competition showcases the vast opportunities on offer to those considering a career in this vibrant industry. This year over 80 college teams and 170 apprentices from across the UK and Ireland registered to take part. In two tough stages of competition – Digital Entry and National Heats – the 6 top performers in each category were selected to take part at the Grand Finals in London. Continue reading here.

Special edition sharing bags of pink and blue Smarties will be hitting shelves next week as part of the seemingly unstoppable, global craze for unicorns.

Nestlé Waters has announced that it will extend its commitment to water stewardship by certifying all of its sites to the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard by 2025

Askeaton Touring Club recently launched their upcoming charity cycle that aims to raise over €20,000 for Down Syndrome Ireland. Supported by Nestlé's Wyeth Nutrition plant, Askeaton, Co. Limerick, the annual 170km cycle over two days in June has been running for a whopping 30 years raising over €1million for a range of charities since 1988. The club started as an idea from a small group of Wyeth colleagues, expanding over the years to involve some 120 people on average at the yearly event. Find out more here.

David Hix, Nestlé UK & Ireland Supply Chain Director and Eleni Petrides, our Gatwick Charity Champion, have visited Whittington Hospital in London to see how employee fundraising for our charity partner, Macmillan, helps people living with cancer. Nestlé employees have so far raised more than £237,000 for the charity through a number of activities and, as part of the visit, David and Eleni met Tracey, Macmillan Information and Support Manager, who explained why continued support is much needed. Continue reading here.

A former worker at Nestlé’s York site, Madge Burrow, who celebrated her 100th birthday last week, returned to reminisce and to watch footage retrieved from the Nestlé UK archive at confectionery headquarters.

Nestlé Waters has acquired a majority stake in Princes Gate Spring Water Ltd., a bottled water manufacturer based in Wales. The acquisition comes in the context of increasing consumer demand for bottled water in the UK and will provide new opportunities to deliver growth in one of Nestlé’s core categories. Continue reading here.

Nestlé Ireland Citywest took part in the ‘Feeding Ireland’s Future’ initiative recently whereby retailers, suppliers and service providers to the Irish food and grocery sector give free pre-employment skills training to early school leavers and young unemployed people. Nestlé has been a participating member since the initiative was first established in 2014 and since then almost 4,500 young people have benefitted from the sessions, hosted by over one hundred companies. Find out more here.