Report Nestlé Brews Up Battle in Thai Coffee Market Amid Legal Dispute

[Guderian]

Good for Nestlé, these Thai oligarchs are worse than the Russian ones! Who knows, with them out of the picture maybe the price of a jar of coffee will come down a bit.

[FlorC]

3 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

I do not drink Nestlé, but I do wish them well in this little enterprise.

Really, you offer your wishes to the most immoral and evil company on the planet?  

 

 

 

most immoral and evil company on the planet?

 

Come on , they're not even in the top 100 of most immoral and evil companies on the planet.

 

Just an example : Monsanto , Bayer ,....

[hotchilli]

1 hour ago, PJUK88 said:

Disgusting product. Calling it coffee is a slander to real coffee.

Absolutely, taking a natural product and processing the hell out of it and calling it coffee...

[Peterphuket]

1 hour ago, Jonathan Swift said:

I don't know how wide a variation there is, but all of the Thai coffee I've ever drunk has been fabulous. I'm drinking my triple latte as I sit here. 

Apart from Amazon, which has reasonable to good coffee, I otherwise have no positive experience with Thai coffee.

[terryofcrete]

4 hours ago, Chongalulu said:

No hyperbole there then....

I get hyper when I go bowling too !

[safarimike11]

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Over priced and over here...

I used to buy Nestle "Red Cup" but switched to Moccona about 15 years ago; I highly recommend it: both 3-in-1 or alternatively the 190 gram jar of Moccona Select - just coffee (190 baht I think - half the price of Nestle).

[pacovl46]

6 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I have no horse in the game, but I have avoided any Nestle product for as long as I remember, and especially since the CEO of Nestle Mr Brabeck-Letmathe said that “access to water is not a public right”

 

 

Exactly! Nestlé is one of the worst companies on the planet. 

[Chongalulu]

1 hour ago, safarimike11 said:

I used to buy Nestle "Red Cup" but switched to Moccona about 15 years ago; I highly recommend it: both 3-in-1 or alternatively the 190 gram jar of Moccona Select - just coffee (190 baht I think - half the price of Nestle).

None of it is "coffee ” ... 🤮 

[PuiPuiHarry]

You call that stuff, what is sold under the Nestle brand "coffee "? ?

[impulse]

44 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

Exactly! Nestlé is one of the worst companies on the planet. 

 

I had forgotten how nefarious they have been.   

 

I'm almost rooting for the powerful Thai families on this one.

 

[Aleksey75]

I love Laotian coffee, and Thai from the north. Sometimes I drink Vietnamese coffee too. Never buy Nestlè.

[GreasyFingers]

1 hour ago, Chongalulu said:

None of it is "coffee ” ... 🤮 

Don’t bet me wrong here as I am not a coffee addict and only drink "instant" (Moccona espresso at the moment) but you reminded me of a visit to a coffee plantation in NSW, Australia. An area not known for its quality of coffee but he owner went on a diatribe about instant not being coffee. So ever since then I have believed what she said but could not get into the Yuppie coffee scene.

[portisaacozzy]

7 hours ago, sambum said:

 

Love Nescafe Red Cup!

 

7 hours ago, sambum said:

 

Love Nescafe Red Cup!

love Camp coffee,it tastes like British coffee should

[sambum]

10 minutes ago, portisaacozzy said:

 

love Camp coffee,it tastes like British coffee should

I didn't realise they still made it - I remember drinking it as a kid 70+ years ago!

[Caldera]

On 4/23/2025 at 4:31 PM, snoop1130 said:

The court prohibited Nestlé from producing or distributing its famed instant coffee under the Nescafé brand

 

I'd argue that not having access to this "famed" yet shoddy instant coffee isn't a big loss! 

[jchfriis]

9 hours ago, PJUK88 said:

Disgusting product. Calling it coffee is a slander to real coffee.

Absolutely agree. Nestle don't make coffee. They make an Instant/freeze-dried drink that they call coffee. If you don't want the hassle of making real coffee the dutch company Douwe Egberts make a much better alternative called Moccona. 

[S Mart]

On 4/23/2025 at 3:34 AM, Will B Good said:

Don't like coffee, but going to start drinking Nestle now.

Maybe time to leave Thailand if your seemingly so anti Thai.

Nestle is a giant conglomerate.

Support your local businesses.

Let alone their coffee isn’t fit to drink. Thai coffee ☕️ is not so bad. 

[S Mart]

6 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

Exactly! Nestlé is one of the worst companies on the planet. 

Possibly the worst. With a Globalist leader who just became the head of WEF the previous leader is indicted.

[JJ-Thailand]

11 hours ago, sambum said:

 

Love Nescafe Red Cup!

Getting expensive!

[ronnie50]

George published this story back on the 14th of this month. So this is a new link.

 

I asked this below back then, but didn't get a reply. (Anyone know if this below is a correct assumption? I really don't know if it's a one-off victory for foreign corporations or a real game-changer.)

 

From the earlier thread I asked:

 

'Does this upend the Thai business model of insisting a foreign company must have a local Thai partner to do business in Thailand? So many foreign brands have been burned in the past through failed partnerships (think Carlesberg Beer among others). If a global brand no longer needs a local Thai partner (or 'Thai franchisee with nationwide marketing rights and profit sharing'), then that's huge news... right? Or am I reading too much into the court ruling (if so, why so?).'

 

 

 

 

 

[Thungrat]

15 hours ago, CallumWK said:

I have no horse in the game, but I have avoided any Nestle product for as long as I remember, and especially since the CEO of Nestle Mr Brabeck-Letmathe said that “access to water is not a public right”

 

 

And now Brabeck is the CEO of the evil WEF organisation.

 

[stix40]

Storm in a teacup 😂 

[Chongalulu]

20 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

Don’t bet me wrong here as I am not a coffee addict and only drink "instant" (Moccona espresso at the moment) but you reminded me of a visit to a coffee plantation in NSW, Australia. An area not known for its quality of coffee but he owner went on a diatribe about instant not being coffee. So ever since then I have believed what she said but could not get into the Yuppie coffee scene.

Only yuppies (whatever that relates to these days) drink proper coffee? Instant is just a powdered drink that has a vague passing resemblance to a decent coffee made from freshly roasted beans which are appropriately ground just before going into a coffee maker. It tastes totally different. The importance in this order is the beans, then the grinder (not a general bladed food mixer type contraption) and finally the coffee machine...

[DTL2014]

the cafe au lait is my fave- and i drink tea mostly .What happened to all the Lipton - disappeared from our shelves - and came back mixed with sugar.only tea i can find in 7/11 is white horse - 

[impulse]

17 hours ago, jchfriis said:

Absolutely agree. Nestle don't make coffee.

 

I call it what it is.  A CDS.  Caffeine delivery system. 

 

Back in the States, I bought caffeine pills (NoDoz)  and took them when I couldn't get a real cuppa.  They're available on Lazada, but I've never found them in the stores in LOS.  Even the supplement stores.

 

Addiction to caffeine and withdrawal headaches are a PITA.  If instant is all that's available, instant it is.  May as well know which of them are better.

 

[Sir Dude]

Ask Carlsberg, Pepsi, and King Mining how this turns out. I'll be surprised if Nestle get what they want.

[GreasyFingers]

2 hours ago, Chongalulu said:

Only yuppies (whatever that relates to these days) drink proper coffee? Instant is just a powdered drink that has a vague passing resemblance to a decent coffee made from freshly roasted beans which are appropriately ground just before going into a coffee maker. It tastes totally different. The importance in this order is the beans, then the grinder (not a general bladed food mixer type contraption) and finally the coffee machine...

A Yuppie could be defined as someone who thinks a cup of coffee is important in his life.

[robz]

Snagged a coffee machine (2k), a grinder (1.5k), and some beans off NocNoc – saved a bunch over the usual prices. Freshly ground coffee? Absolute game-changer!

[sambum]

On 4/25/2025 at 2:16 PM, DTL2014 said:

the cafe au lait is my fave- and i drink tea mostly .What happened to all the Lipton - disappeared from our shelves - and came back mixed with sugar.only tea i can find in 7/11 is white horse - 

 

Lipton tea is tasteless colourless c**p! 

 

Try Tesco Lotus - they usually have a selection of Twining's brews.

[Chongalulu]

On 4/25/2025 at 4:02 PM, GreasyFingers said:

A Yuppie could be defined as someone who thinks a cup of coffee is important in his life.

Or perhaps has a better palette and makes a little effort to recognise that. Perhaps, unlike you?, doesn't put 7 sugars in tea and coffee or smother tomato sauce or salad cream on everything? You sound like a pineapple on pizza kinda guy! 😆