Henri Nestlé had developed a milk-based baby…

Henri Nestlé had developed a milk-based baby food in Vevey, Switzerland, pn September 1866, and soon began marketing it.

The following year saw Daniel Peter begin seven years of work perfecting his invention, the milk chocolate manufacturing process.

Nestlé's had been the crucial cooperation that Peter needed to solve the problem of removing all the water from the milk added to his chocolate and thus preventing the product from developing mildew.

Henri Nestlé retires in 1875 but the company under new ownership retains his name as Société Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé.