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Nelson Peltz
Nelson Peltz, founder of Trian Fund Management, is an American activist investor known for the Snapple turnaround, proxy fights at Heinz, Wendy's, P&G, and Disney, and board seats including Unilever.
Nerds (candy)
Nerds: American crunchy, tangy-sweet candy pebbles launched 1982-1983 under Willy Wonka Candy Company (Sunmark), later Nestle, now Ferrara (Ferrero). Known for dual-chamber boxes and Gummy Clusters, which drove revenue from $50M past $700M.
Nerds Gummy Clusters
Nerds Gummy Clusters, also called Gummy Clusters, are a Ferrara Candy Company gummy-and-crunch candy launched in 2020, known for sales growth from $8 million to over $500 million and for overtaking Skittles as the top U.S. sugar candy.
Nesquik
Nesquik is Nestlé's milk-flavoring brand, launched in the US in 1948 as Nestlé Quik and renamed Nesquik in Europe in the 1950s; powder, syrup, and ready-to-drink formats, sugar-dominant composition, sold in over 100 countries.
Nestlé
Nestlé S.A., Swiss multinational food and beverage company headquartered in Vevey, formed by the 1905 merger of Henri Nestlé's infant cereal firm with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company; world's largest food and beverage company, CHF 89.5 billion 2025 sales.
Nestlé Purina PetCare
Nestlé Purina PetCare, formed in 2001 when Nestlé acquired Ralston Purina, is Nestlé's pet food business, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, selling Purina Pro Plan, Friskies, Felix, and Tidy Cats.
Newman's Own
Newman's Own is an American food company founded in 1982 by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner that donates 100% of profits to charity, over $600 million to date, and has been solely owned by Newman's Own Foundation since 2008.
Newtons (cookie)
Newtons, formerly Fig Newtons, are Nabisco's soft fig-filled cookie bars, created in 1891 at the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, using Henry Mitchell's dual-funnel machine and named after the town of Newton, Massachusetts.
No Name (brand)
No Name (no name) is Loblaw's Canadian discount private-label grocery brand, launched 1978 with 16 yellow-and-black packaged generics, now about 2,900 products sold at Loblaws, No Frills, and Real Canadian Superstore.
Norwegian butter crisis
The Norwegian butter crisis was a late-2011 butter shortage in Norway caused by rainy-summer milk shortfalls, low-carb diet demand, and high dairy import tariffs, with prices reportedly reaching €350 per 500-gram pack before a temporary duty cut.
NSF International
NSF International, formerly the National Sanitation Foundation, is a not-for-profit Ann Arbor, Michigan-based public health standards and certification body founded in 1944, unrelated to the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Nutella
Nutella, the Ferrero hazelnut-cocoa spread launched in 1964 from Pietro Ferrero's wartime Giandujot paste; seven ingredients including 13% hazelnuts and palm oil; sold in 170 countries, about 365,000 tonnes yearly, with RSPO-certified palm oil since 2013.
Nutri-Score
Nutri-Score is a five-level, color-coded front-of-pack nutrition label (A to E) developed by Santé publique France and introduced in France in 2017, now used voluntarily in several European countries, scoring foods per 100 g or 100 mL from nutrients to limit and recommended nutrients.
Ocado
Ocado (Ocado Group plc, LSE: OCDO) is a British technology and online grocery company founded in 2000. It runs Ocado Retail, a 50:50 M&S joint venture, and licenses its Ocado Smart Platform warehouse robotics to 15 grocery partners worldwide.
Oh Henry!
Oh Henry! is a peanut, caramel, and fudge candy bar introduced in Chicago in 1920 by George Williamson, with disputed origins; Hershey makes the Canadian version, and Ferrara holds the US rights since 2018.
Olam International
Olam International, the Singapore food and agri-business founded in 1989 trading Nigerian cashews, became Olam Group Limited (SGX: VC2) in 2022, re-organised into ofi, Olam Agri and OGH, and sold Olam Agri to SALIC.
Olestra
Olestra (Olean), a sucrose polyester fat substitute developed by Procter & Gamble in 1968 and FDA-approved for savory snacks in 1996; nonabsorbed, noncaloric, reduces fat-soluble vitamin and carotenoid absorption, later largely phased out.
Online food ordering
Online food ordering: customers order food via websites, apps, QR-code menus, kiosks, or delivery platforms like Meituan and Ele.me. Covers channels, 15–30% platform commissions, consumer cost premiums, and adoption data.
Operation Feed the Nation
Operation Feed the Nation was a mass agricultural campaign launched by Nigeria's military government under General Obasanjo in 1976 to raise food production; it was replaced in 1979.
Oreo
Oreo: chocolate sandwich cookie brand created by Nabisco in 1912, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 100 countries as the world's top-selling cookie. Outlasted predecessor Hydrox (1908); famous for Double Stuf, twist-lick-dunk marketing, and global localized flavors.
Orville Redenbacher
Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995), American agronomist from Brazil, Indiana, Purdue 1928; with Charlie Bowman bred a 44:1 expansion popcorn hybrid, launched Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn in 1970, and became a famous TV pitchman; brand now owned by Conagra Brands.
Pagpag
Pagpag (also tirtir, from tira-tira) is leftover fast-food and restaurant food scavenged from Philippine garbage, washed and recooked or resold in poor Metro Manila communities such as Tondo and Baseco, at PHP 10–40/kg, with documented salmonella and malnutrition risks.
Paraguayan postwar famine
The Paraguayan postwar famine was the hunger that engulfed Paraguay at the end of the War of the Triple Alliance (1864–1870), which left cattle herds and agriculture destroyed.
Parle Agro
Parle Agro Private Limited (Parlé Agro), Indian beverage company founded 1985 in Mumbai by Prakash Chauhan; maker of Frooti, Appy Fizz, Smoodh, Bailley; distinct from Parle Products.
Parle Products
Parle Products, Indian biscuit and confectionery maker founded 1929 in Vile Parle, Mumbai by the Chauhan family; maker of Parle-G, world's largest-selling biscuit brand per Nielsen 2003; FY25 revenue Rs 15,568 crore, unlisted, promoter-held.
Parle-G
Parle-G is an Indian glucose biscuit brand from Mumbai, launched in 1939 as Parle Gluco and named the world's largest selling biscuit brand in 2003.
Patanjali Ayurved (पतंजलि आयुर्वेद)
Patanjali Ayurved (पतंजलि आयुर्वेद), Indian FMCG and ayurvedic products company founded in Haridwar in 1997 and incorporated 2006; Ramdev-associated, 98.54% owned by Acharya Balkrishna, turnover Rs 7,413.62 crores FY2022-23.
Paul (bakery)
PAUL is a French family-owned bakery-café chain founded in 1889 in Croix near Lille, owned by Groupe Holder, franchised since 1989, with 750+ bakeries across 45+ countries and a PAUL LE CAFÉ coffee-shop concept.
Peeps
Peeps are sugar-coated marshmallow chicks and bunnies made by Just Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, since it acquired Rodda Candy in 1953; 2 billion a year, best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy, famously polarizing.
Pepperidge Farm
Pepperidge Farm, founded by Margaret Rudkin in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1937, is an American bakery brand owned by The Campbell's Company since 1961, known for Goldfish crackers, Milano cookies, breads, and puff pastry.