Nestlé is tapping into the lucrative weight loss drug market by catering to customers’ “shifting” nutritional needs, CEO Mark SchneiderCNBC on Thursday, an optimistic pivot from one of the industry’s biggest players in the face of dire early predictions suggesting wildly popular drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy would take a bite out of the food industry.
Schneider said the different needs of people using weight loss drugs open up a big market opportunity for companies like Nestlé, which he said has big plans to respond to what has rapidly become a “major consumer trend.”