Nestlé Tower

St George's House, Croydon
St George's House, Croydon
Location of St George's House within Greater London
Alternative names	Nestlé Tower
General information
Town or city	Croydon, London
Country	United Kingdom
Completed	1964
Client	Nestlé S.A. (to 2012)
Owner	Legal & General
Design and construction
Architect	Ronald Ward and Partners

St George's House (sometimes known by locals as the Nestlé Tower) is a 79.20 m office tower located in Croydon, United Kingdom. It was occupied by the Swiss multinational food and consumer goods company Nestlé as the headquarters of Nestlé UK & Ireland until September 2012.^[1]

Location

The tower is located on Park Lane above the Croydon Underpass and close to the Croydon Council offices in Bernard Weatherhill House, Croydon College, and the theatre and performance space of the Fairfield Halls and Ashcroft Theatre.

History

The tower was designed by architects Ronald Ward and Partners, who also designed Millbank Tower, and it was completed in 1964.

Occupied by Nestlé until the end of 2012, the tower is now undergoing reconstruction by current owners, Legal & General, to convert the building into 288 new apartments.

In January 2012, Nestlé announced that it intended to move the headquarters of Nestlé UK & Ireland to City Place Gatwick, with all 840 employees based at St George's House moved to Gatwick by the end of 2012.^[2]^[3]

The eastern entrance to St George's Walk shopping arcade is located at the base of the tower and the ground floor also housed the Greyhound, which, as well as fulfilling the functions of a town centre public house, became well known as a music venue. Later known as the Blue Orchid nightclub, the venue closed in 2004.^[4]

Transport links

St George's House has various transport links nearby. George Street tram stop is the closest Tramlink station to the offices. From here there are services to Wimbledon station on route 3 for connections to the London Underground, and on route 1 and 2 services terminate at West Croydon station for trains to Sutton and slow trains to Central London as well as London Overground services. There are also tram services from East Croydon to New Addington, Elmers End and Beckenham. There is also a bus station at West Croydon with buses on the northbound corridor and the rest of the borough. East Croydon station, the main railway station in the borough, is also close by. The station provides mainline services from Southern and First Capital Connect. These train operating companies provide services to Brighton and the South Coast, Bedford, Luton, Luton Airport, Gatwick Airport and fast services to Victoria and London Bridge.

References

↑ "Location of Nestlé offices in the UK and EIRE". Nestlé. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-02-21. Retrieved 2008-03-15.
↑ "Nestlé moves to Gatwick. Nestlé. 5 January 2012. Retrieved on 4 March 2012.
↑ "Nestlé to move headquarters from Croydon to Gatwick". BBC News. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
↑ Mokbel, Sami (15 December 2004). "Blue Orchid nightclub shuts its doors for the final time". croydonguardian.co.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2015.

External links

Nestlé UK
Current Nestlé sites in the UK.
Guardian article on Millbank Tower and St George's House architects Ronald Ward and Partners.
Approval of planning permission by Croydon Council.
Redevelopment proposal by Legal & General.

Buildings and structures in Croydon

Highrises	100 George Street Altitude 25 Apollo House Central One Cherry Orchard Road Towers Croydon Tower Croydon transmitting station Croydon Vocational Tower Direct Line House ISLAND Leon House Lunar House Nestlé Tower No. 1 Croydon Prudential House Ruskin Square Saffron Square Taberner House Wettern House

Notable lowrises	Addington Palace Airport House Ashcroft Theatre Bridge House BRIT School Christ Church, Croydon Croydon College Croydon Clocktower (David Lean Cinema Museum of Croydon Croydon Central Library) Cane Hill Old Palace Croydon Minster Fairfield Halls Grants John Ruskin College Croydon University Hospital RAF Kenley Ruskin House Safari Cinema St Andrew's, Croydon St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood St Michael and All Angels, Croydon St Peter's, Croydon The Exchange Trinity School of John Whitgift Warehouse Theatre

Major railway stations	East Croydon Norwood Junction Purley West Croydon

Major complexes	Allders Ashburton Learning Village Centrale Colonnades Leisure Park Grants Park Place Purley Way St George's Walk Valley Park Retail Area Whitgift Centre

Sports venues	Croydon Arena Croydon Sports Arena Croydon Water Palace Selhurst Park

Architecture of Croydon Croydon Vision 2020 List of tallest buildings and structures in Croydon

Nestlé

Brands

Appliances	BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nescafé Alegria Nescafé Barista Nespresso Special.T

Baby nutrition	BabyNes Cerelac Gerber Graduates Mucilon NaturNes Nestum Nidal (brand) Nido P'tit

Baking	Libby's Pumpkin Toll House

Bottled water	Arrowhead Buxton Contrex Deer Park Hépar Ice Mountain Ozarka Panna Perrier Poland Spring Pure Life Quézac San Pellegrino Vittel Zephyrhills

Cereals	Cheerios¹ Chocapic Chokella Cini Minis Clusters Cocoa Crisp¹ Cookie Crisp¹ Corn Flakes Country Corn Flakes Curiously Cinnamon Fitness Fitness Fibra Gold Flakes Golden Grahams¹ Golden Nuggets Honey Gold Honey Stars Koko Krunch La Lechera Flakes Lion (cereal) Lucky Charms¹ Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal)⁷ Nesquik Duo Cereal⁷ Nesquik CioccoMilk⁷ Nestlé Crunch Oats & More Trix¹ Shreddies⁸ Shredded Wheat⁸ Strawberry Minis

Chocolate and desserts	100 Grand Bar Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Alpino Baby Ruth Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Chocolate Big Turk Bit-O-Honey Blue Riband Breakaway Butterfinger Cailler Caramac Carlos V Chico babies Choclait Chips Choco Crossies Chocolate Log Chokito Chunky Club Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch Die Weisse Drifter Golden Rough Goobers Jelly Tots Kit Kat³ Kit Kat Chunky Kit Kat Senses Lanvin Lentejas Life Savers Lion Bar Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milkybar Choo Milo (chocolate bar) Mirage Mint Patty Munchies Munch NestEgg Nestlé Baker's Choice Nestlé Classic Nestlé Dessert Nestlé Fav*rites Nestlé Extra Smooth Nestlé Snack Nuts Nestlé Milk Chocolate Oh Henry!⁴ Orion Peppermint Crisp Perugina Plaistowe Polo Quality Street Raisinets Rolo³ Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties⁵ Sno-Caps Spree Sundy (brand) Susy Svitoch TEX Toffee Crisp Violet Crumble Walnut Whip White Knight The Willy Wonka Candy Company XXX YES Yorkie

Coffee and beverages	Abuelita BabyNes Carnation Caro Chuckie (beverage) Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Klim La Lechera Lion Menier Milo Nescafé Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik (mix) Nesquik Ready-To-Drink Nestea Nestlé Chocolate Nestlé Dessert Ovaltine⁶ Ricoré Sjora Sublime Sweet Leaf Tonimalt Zoégas

Health and nutrition	Nutramen Junior Nutrament Pamlab Peptamen Boost Resource

Ice cream	Camy D'Onofrio Dibs (ice cream) Dreyer's/Edy's Drumstick Eskimo Pie Extrême Fab Frosty Paws Häagen-Dazs² Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat La Cremeria La Laitière Lanvin (chocolate) Maxibon Mövenpick Nestlé Parlour Pops Savory (ice cream) Schőller Smarties

Prepared and Packaged Food and Snacks	Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Garden Gourmet Herta Hot Pockets Jack's Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Maggi noodles Mousline Nestlé Starz Roll Ups Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Wagner Yinlu Foods

Dairy Products	a+ Actiplus After Eight Carnation Cerevita Coffee-Mate Dancow Everyday Kit Kat La Lechera La Laitère Milkmaid Nesquik Nesquik Minis Rolo SKI

Nesquik	Nesquik Powder Nesquik Cereal⁷ Nesquik Duo Cereal⁷ Nesquik CioccoMilk⁷ Nesquik (beverage)

Milo	Milo granules Milo Chocolate Bar Milo Cereal

Uncle Toby's	Cheerios¹ Fruit Bites Healthwise Natural Style Muesli O&G Oat Crisp Oat Flakes PLUS Puffs Roll Ups VitaBrits Weeties

Petcare	Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Cat Chow Chef Michael's Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws Go-Cat Gourmet ONE Pro Plan Tender Vittles Veterinary Diets Winalot

Galderma	Cetaphil Daylong Epiduo Excipial Restylane

Former	Alcon Chocolate Surpresa Enviga Jenny Craig Polly Waffle Powerbar Powwow Water Wonder Ball

Divisions

Joint ventures

Other assets

Hsu Fu Chi (60%)
L'Oréal (30.3%)
Osem (51%)
Yinlu Foods (60%)

People

Other

¹ Currently manufactured by General Mills in the United States and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. ² Brand owned by General Mills; US and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license.
³ US production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁴ Canadian production rights owned by The Hershey Company. ⁵ US rights and production owned by Smarties Candy Company, with a different product.
⁶ US rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods. ⁷ Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. ⁸ Produced by Cereal Partners, and Branded Nestlé in The United Kingdom, and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods, elsewhere.

Category
Commons

Coordinates: 51°22′23″N 0°05′50″W / 51.3731°N 0.0971°W / 51.3731; -0.0971

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