breakfast cereals and baby food. Halal products now account for $5 billion of Nestlé’s global sales. But while Switzerland benefits from factories like this one selling its products to Muslim ...

The Swiss are the biggest producers of processed halal food, mainly for Southeast Asia and the Middle East, earning €2.4 billion ($3.5 billion) from sales of such products last year -- more than ...

A number of big Swiss and European firms are already active ... The company now employs over 25 Muslim food and nutritionist specialists and has provided halal certificates to over 200 companies ...

This makes the halal food market an attractive one in economic terms. For example, Swiss food giant Nestlé had a turnover of SFr5.3 billion ($5 billion) in the halal food sector in 2008.

The dough preserved with potassium sorbate smells "slightly more cheesy," says Walter Leisi, 63, a jolly Swiss man wearing a purple short-sleeved shirt and a gold watch. Leisi is the director of a ...

Halal meat can be produced inside Switzerland, because Muslim scholars ... because it would ban imports of foie gras, a luxury food product made from the liver of a force-fed duck or goose.

Halal is an Arabic word that denotes that a food or service is permissible according ... taken badly the news that its factory in Bern, Switzerland, achieved a halal certification in April ...

And decades-old bans on ritual killing have been upheld in Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Individuals and groups who oppose Muslim immigration have also spoken out against halal food.

Swiss food giant Nestlé has been added to the Arab ... decision might be foolhardy given the investments Nestlé makes in Muslim countries. “Nestlé employs 23,000 people in 51 factories ...