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Nestlé sponsored a river barge to create a 'floating supermarket' that sold candy and chocolate pudding to the backwoods of Brazil

Nestlé sponsored a river barge to bring tens of thousands of its products to Brazil's poor, which critics say contributes to the country's obesity epidemic.

For the past five years, sales of Nestlé chocolate, ice cream, and milk powder have slowed in some of the wealthiest countries.

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