Fired Nestlé CEO was outed by scorned mistress when she found him in Swiss hotel with ANOTHER employee
Nestlé’s CEO was suddenly fired after filed a complaint that a senior manager caught with another employee in a Zurich hotel room for a long time and filed a quick internal investigation.
Details announced in a explosive report published by Swiss Outlet In ParadePlatz.
63 -year -old Laurent Freixe, who has been governing the world’s largest food company for less than a year, was terminated on September 1 after confirming that the company could not explain a relationship with a direct report and violated Nestlé’s rules of behavior.
However, behind the official statement, a scandalous scandal lies behind more than one job, corporate severance pay agreements and best Nestlé executives to ignite Freixe on the spot and ask him to surrender his phone.
The scandal began by Insiders when Freixe’s ‘Main Mistteria’ was called as a marketing manager, when he walked with another asth, and then used Nestlé’s anonymous notification line to report the behavior of CEO.
Freixe, despite the about 40 -year service in the company, did not receive severance pay.
Nestlé confirmed his dismissal, but did not comment on the features of the investigation or more than one relationship.
The senior executive, who presented the complaint, is said to be a ‘main meter’, since then he played a new role in another big company and according to Inside Paradeplatz, he received a severance pay package for internal spreading.
Laurent Freixe, CEO of Nestlé, who has ruled the world’s largest food company for less than a year, was terminated on September 1 after confirming that the company could not explain a relationship with a direct report and violated Nestlé’s rules of behavior.
In 2022, Freixe met the marketing manager in which the company had a relationship in the center of Vevey.
Outlet, the second woman allegedly caught with Freixe at the hotel left Nestlé and reported that Freixe had received a generous severance pay personally organized before his tolerance.
Nestlé did not define both women publicly or confirm the nature of their separation.
Freixe was alleged to be in love with a marketing employee in the company in July in July.
The site claimed that the couple first met in the center of Switzerland in 2022.
About 18 months later, the woman Freixe was the Vice President of Marketing for the United States, while she ruled this section. Although this is not confirmed, he is suspected of personally approved the promotion.
When encouraged, it remains unclear whether the two are in a relationship. The Board was told about romanticism in May after the reports emerged internal.
A Nestlé spokesman told the news agency AWP, according to SRF, the first investigation could ‘prove the suspicion’.
After more information, he confirmed a wider investigation event, but the company did not say how it collected evidence.
Freixe joined Nestlé in 1986 and climbed to the ranks during his 39 -year career – he managed to keep the highest job for only 12 months and will not receive severance pay
As CEO, Freix tried to focus the company again in basic brands such as Freix and Nescafé Instant Coffee
The Swiss -based company encourages employees to report ‘incompatibility concerns’ to the helping line of speaking employees
When a comment was asked, a Nestlé spokesman Swiss broadcast, ‘Everything to be said about the subject was said and more wild assumptions and speculation will not enter’ he said.
Nestlé’s official statement stated that Freixe was terminated because the company had violated the rules of behavior and that it could not disclose a personal relationship with a sub -sub -sub -subspecies – a necessity in accordance with Nestlé’s internal ethical rules.
In internal communication, senior executives emphasized that Nestlé’s most peaks, including those at the top, are subject to the same ethical standards.
Only days after the ignition, Freixe reappeared in LinkedIn with a encrypted pole that appears to be referenced to its dramatic dismissal.
“ `I got my mobile phone back, I always reach, ” he wrote.
He also issued a greeting message to his successor Philipp Navratil, but he wrote his name wrong as ‘Philippe’ and added a more strange layer of attempt to reappear the public.
Phil Navratil, the boss of a coffee section, will take over as the company’s next leader.
The Swiss broadcast in Paradeplatz claimed that this was not Freixe’s first workplace romanticism.
Ten years ago, he was alleged to have a relationship with a young colleague while working for Nestlé in Hungary. In 2017, the two were opened to the public as a couple and later married and soon left the company.
Freixe’s sudden output indicates that the fastest CEO of Nestlé has collapsed, and this nature raised its eyebrows in the Swiss institutional world, where high -profile executive scandals are rare.
Nestlé, known for home brands such as Nespresso, Kitkat and Perrier, is one of the most powerful consumer goods companies in the world.
However, explanations about Freixe’s behavior and sensational conditions surrounding his business shook even the upper ranks of the Swiss business.
Nestlé refused to comment more.
With brands such as Nestlé, Gerber, Purina, Nescafé and Kitkat, it dominates the supermarket shelves in the USA, but its sales are shifting.
Global sales fell 1.8 percent in July. Increased production costs for sugary and caffeinated products from Central America contained pressure.
