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Vevey ( French pronunciation: [vəvɛ] ; Arpitan : Vevê ; former German : Vivis ) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud , on the north shore of Lake Leman , near Lausanne . The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.

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60-466: (Redirected from Sical ) Portuguese coffee brand company SICAL Company type Food and Drink Industry Food and Beverage Founded Portugal, 1947 Headquarters Vevey , Switzerland Area served Europe Products Food Beverage Production output Portugal Services Food Parent Nestlé Website www .sical .pt SICAL

120-509: A Fachhochschule ). Of the 2,069 who completed tertiary schooling, 43.5% were Swiss men, 29.2% were Swiss women, 15.4% were non-Swiss men and 11.9% were non-Swiss women. In the 2009/2010 school year there were a total of 1,968 students in the Vevey school district. In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts. During the school year,

180-626: A Second World War breaking out in 1940 and lasting until 1950. In this future scenario, Vevey is depicted as the venue of an international peace conference held in 1941, where various prominent diplomats and statesmen gather, deliver "brilliant pacifist speeches [which] echo throughout Europe" , but fail to end the war. A small village church above Vevey is mentioned by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice , CHAPTER XI, The Arch Masonry, Page 169, diagram 5. Commenting on it, "It could hardly be stronger". The Clara Haskil International Piano Competition

240-558: A new Cheerios commercial, with the refrain "Good goes around and around and around." In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada , it partnered with Food Banks Canada to do a tribute to food bank workers. Beginning in July 2021, a limited re-release of Cheerios cereal was made across North American markets by reusing the original-brand name "Cheerioats" instead of "Cheerios." Cheerioats used

300-544: A private car. From the 2000 census , 6,676 or 41.2% were Roman Catholic , while 4,224 or 26.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church . Of the rest of the population, there were 427 members of an Orthodox church (or about 2.64% of the population), there were 8 individuals (or about 0.05% of the population) who belonged to the Christian Catholic Church , and there were 685 individuals (or about 4.23% of

360-455: A total of 1,286 inhabited buildings. There were 565 multi-family buildings (43.9%), along with 329 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (25.6%) and 128 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (10.0%). In 2000 , a total of 7,752 apartments (83.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 1,117 apartments (12.0%) were seasonally occupied and 430 apartments (4.6%) were empty. As of 2009 ,

420-406: Is May, with an average of 12.7, but with only 112 mm (4.4 in) of rain or snow. The driest month of the year is February with an average of 78 mm (3.1 in) of precipitation over 9.4 days. In Vevey about 5,104 or (31.5%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education , and 2,069 or (12.8%) have completed additional higher education (either university or

480-5462: Is a Portuguese coffee brand company under the Nestlé portfolio since 1987. v t e Nestlé Divisions Nestlé Purina PetCare Nestlé Waters Nestlé Wyeth Nutrition Divested BlueTriton Brands (Nestlé Waters North America) [REDACTED] Subsidiaries Nestlé India (62.76%) Nestlé Pakistan Nestlé Canada Nestlé Japan Nestlé Malaysia Nestlé Lanka Joint ventures Beverage Partners Worldwide Cereal Partners Worldwide Froneri Nestlé Toll House Café Other assets Hsu Fu Chi (60%) L'Oréal (30.3%) Osem (100%) Yinlu Foods (60%) Malher (100%) Lactalis-Nestlé Fresh Products Brands Appliances BabyNes Dolce Gusto Nespresso Special.T SICAL Baby nutrition BabyNes Bear Brand Cerelac Gerber Nido Baking Libby's Toll House cookies Bottled water Contrex Acqua Panna Perrier Princes Gate Pure Life S.Pellegrino Vittel Cereals Cheerios Chocapic Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cookie Crisp Corn Flakes Fitness Golden Grahams Golden Nuggets Lion Cereal Lucky Charms Milo Cereal Nesquik (cereal) Trix Shreddies Shredded Wheat Chocolate and desserts Animal Bar Abuelita Aero Aero Biscuits After Eight Allen's Bar One Bertie Beetle Big Turk Blue Riband Black Magic Bono Breakaway Cailler Caramac Carlos V Cheekies Chokito Coffee Crisp Crisp Crunch Drifter Fox's Garoto Goobers Kit Kat Kit Kats in Japan Kohler Life Savers Lion Mackintosh's Toffee Matchmakers Menier Chocolate Milkybar Milo Mirage Munchies Negresco Nestlé Milk Chocolate Passatempo Peppermint Crisp Perugina Polo Quality Street Red Ripperz Rolo Rowntree's Rowntree's Fruit Gums Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles Sin Parar Smarties Svitoch TEX Walnut Whip White Knight Yorkie Zvečevo Coffee and beverages Abuelita Alpine Acticor BabyNes Blue Bottle Coffee Boost Carnation Caro Chameleon Cold-Brew Chuckie Coffee-Mate Dolce Gusto Huesitos Klim La Lechera Menier Milo cocoa Nescafé Nescafé Azera Nescafé Gold Nescau Nesfruta Nespresso Nesquik Nestea Ovaltine Ricoré Seattle's Best Coffee Starbucks Supligen Sweet Leaf Zoégas Dairy products Alpine Bear Brand Carnation Coffee-Mate La Lechera Nesquik Ice cream D'Onofrio Drumstick Eskimo Pie Fab Frosty Paws Häagen-Dazs Hjem-IS Ice Screamers Kit Kat Maxibon Mövenpick Parlour Savory Smarties Prepared and packaged food and snacks Buitoni California Pizza Kitchen DiGiorno Herta Hot Pockets Lean Cuisine Libby's Lean Pockets Maggi Stouffer's Thomy Tombstone Uncle Tobys Winiary Wagner Yinlu Foods Purina PetCare Alpo Bakers Complete Beggin' Strips Beneful Bonio Dog Chow Fancy Feast Felix Friskies Frosty Paws ONE Winalot Uncle Tobys Cheerios PLUS Weeties Former brands and subsidiaries Alcon Alfasigma Arrowhead Butterfinger Baby Ruth Chocolate Surpresa Deer Park Dreyer's Enviga Gale's Galderma Laboratories Cetaphil Epiduo Restylane Hoadley's Ice Mountain Jenny Craig Ozarka Peter's Chocolate Poland Spring Polly Waffle PowerBar Powwow Water Rowntree Mackintosh Violet Crumble Wonder Ball Zephyrhills People Günter Blobel Paul Bulcke Peter Brabeck-Letmathe Nobuyuki Idei Henri Nestlé Kaspar Villiger Related Nestea European Championship Tour 1977 Nestlé boycott Nestlé Invitational Nestlé Rowntree F.C. Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Nestlé Tower Toll House cookies International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Nescafé Basement Maggi noodles safety concerns in India Freshly Related articles List of Nestlé brands Controversies of Nestlé Currently manufactured by General Mills in

540-503: Is held biennially in her memory. The brochure reads: "The Clara Haskil Competition was founded in 1963 to honour and perpetuate the memory of the incomparable Swiss pianist, of Romanian origin, who was born in Bucharest in 1895. It takes place every two years in Vevey, Switzerland , where Clara Haskil resided from 1942 until her death in Brussels in 1960. Rick Wakeman , keyboardist for

600-424: Is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km (9.9 acres) or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 51.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 26.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.7%. Out of

660-420: Is sponsored by Cheerios and a 50/50 joint venture of General Mills and Simon & Schuster . Mini-sized versions of Simon & Schuster children's books are published within the program when the book drive occurs. The program also includes a New Author contest; winners' books are published in miniature inside boxes of Cheerios. In 2009, Olympic gold medalist and World Champion gymnast Shawn Johnson became

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720-626: The Vortexx Saturday morning block on The CW Television Network in August 2012, special boxes of Cheerios were branded as "Vortexx O's," complete with the schedule on the back, and the wordmark plastered on one of the Vortexx promotional backgrounds. Toys were also included in the box, featuring John Cena , Iron Man , and the Pink Power Ranger . In 2017, Latrell James was hired to sing a song for

780-597: The 18th century; the last five were in 1927, 1955, 1977, 1999, and 2019. The town is also known for its large market on Tuesday and Saturday mornings. The Vevey folk markets, known locally as the Marchés Folkloriques, normally has up to 2000 visitors each Saturday over a period of two months. (Second week of July to end August). Visitors can buy a wine-glass and drink to their heart's content while listening to brass bands , Swiss folk music , and watching traditional craftsmen at work. These Folk Markets are organised by

840-672: The 2nd millennium BC. Under Rome , it was known as Viviscus or Vibiscum . It was mentioned for the first time by the ancient Greek astronomer and philosopher Ptolemy , who gave it the name Ouikos . In the Middle Ages it was a station on the Via Francigena . It was then ruled by the bishopric of Lausanne , and later under the Blonay family. In the 1660s, several of the English regicides fled to Switzerland, and many of them settled in Vevey under

900-719: The Cour au Chantre; the City Hall ; the Hôtel des Trois-Couronnes; the La Grenette and Place du Marché; the Saint-Jean Tower and Fountain. The Grande Place is dominated by a granary known as La Grenette , built in 1803 in the Neo-Classical "rustic" style. Behind La Grenette is the restaurant La Clef , in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau used to eat. The table at which he sat is still to be seen in

960-502: The Est Vaudois district court of Vevey. As of  2010 , Vevey had an unemployment rate of 8.1%. As of 2008 , there were 9 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 6 businesses involved in this sector. 1,320 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 134 businesses in this sector. 10,014 people were employed in the tertiary sector , with 985 businesses in this sector. There were 7,741 residents of

1020-765: The Société de développement de Vevey. In the 2007 federal election , the most popular party was the SP , which received 27.21% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (17.86%), the Green Party (16.21%) and the FDP (10.83%). In the federal election, a total of 3,217 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 40.0%. Many of the Union Cycliste Internationale defamation lawsuits against its critics have occurred under

1080-646: The St. Martin's organ on his solo album (recorded shortly after Going for the One ) " Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record " most notably in the final track "Judas Iscariot". Vevey, along with the Vineyards of Lavaux are mentioned in the song Lavaux on singer Prince 's album 20Ten . Cheerios Cheerios is a brand of cereal manufactured by General Mills in the United States and Canada , consisting of pulverized oats in

1140-680: The Starbucks brand owned by Nestlé since 2019. Brand owned by Mars , sold by Nestlé in Canada. Produced by Froneri in the U.S. since 2020. [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Commons Authority control databases [REDACTED] International VIAF Other IdRef Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SICAL&oldid=1213224441 " Categories : Nestlé brands Coffee industry Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Vevey It

1200-600: The U.K. and Ireland. Produced by Post Foods elsewhere. Philippine production rights owned by Alaska Milk Corporation . Singaporean, Malaysian and Thai production rights owned by Fraser and Neave . Used only in Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. Used only in the Philippines. U.S. production rights owned by the Ferrara Candy Company . NA rights and specific trade dress to all packaged coffee and other products under

1260-661: The U.S. and Canada. Produced by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand elsewhere. Brand owned by General Mills ; U.S. and Canadian production rights controlled by Nestlé under license. U.S. production rights owned by The Hershey Company . U.S. rights and production owned by the Smarties Candy Company with a different product. U.S. rights and specific trade dress owned by Nestlé; rights elsewhere owned by Associated British Foods . Produced by Cereal Partners, branded as Nestlé. Produced by Cereal Partners and branded as Nestlé in

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1320-656: The United Kingdom are not gluten-free. Cheerios in the United States are made solely from oats and, since 2015, can be called gluten-free. Many television commercials for Cheerios have targeted children, featuring animated characters (such as a Honeybee ). Bullwinkle was featured in early 1960s commercials, with the tagline at the end of the ad being "Go with Cheerios!" followed by Bullwinkle, usually worse for wear due to his Cheerios-inspired bravery somewhat backfiring, saying "...but watch where you're going!" Hoppity Hooper

1380-577: The adult population, 2,543 people or 14.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 3,059 people or 17.0% are between 30 and 39, 2,852 people or 15.9% are between 40 and 49, and 2,059 people or 11.5% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 1,516 people or 8.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 1,131 people or 6.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 806 people or 4.5% who are between 80 and 89, and there are 138 people or 0.8% who are 90 and older. As of 2000 , there were 6,936 people who were single and never married in

1440-403: The cereal is suitable according to the box which states that whole grain oats lower cholesterol. The next scene features the father waking up as a pile of Cheerios spills down his chest, which the daughter placed there having taken her father's words literally. The commercial received unintentional notoriety due to intense backlash. This was so extreme that General Mills disabled further comments on

1500-411: The commercials, the characters become tired in the middle of performing an activity (e.g. taking a dance lesson, or playing tennis), but then another character tells them that they did not have a healthy Cheerios breakfast. Then, at the end of the commercial, the character would be energized, followed by children singing "You're on your toes with Cheerios!" The Spoonfuls of Stories program, begun in 2002,

1560-527: The company announced that it would be making Cheerios gluten-free by removing the traces of wheat, rye, and barley that usually come into contact with the oat supply used to make Cheerios during transportation to the General Mills plant in Buffalo , New York , along Lake Erie . In the United Kingdom, Cheerios differ somewhat from their US counterpart, being made from oats , wheat and barley , thus Cheerios in

1620-415: The construction rate of new housing units was 6.8 new units per 1000 residents. As of 2003 the average price to rent an average apartment in Vevey was 1067.93 Swiss francs (CHF) per month (US$ 850, £480, €680 approx. exchange rate from 2003). The average rate for a one-room apartment was 567.76 CHF (US$ 450, £260, €360), a two-room apartment was about 787.77 CHF (US$ 630, £350, €500), a three-room apartment

1680-578: The first athlete to have her photo featured on the front of the Cheerios box. The limited edition was distributed in the Midwestern region of the United States by the Hy-Vee grocery store chain. In 2013, a Cheerios commercial aired, titled "Just Checking," showcasing an interracial family in which a daughter asks her mother (white) if Cheerios is good for the heart, as her father (black) mentioned. The mother says

1740-464: The forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 0.4% is used for growing crops and 1.7% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality was the capital of the Vevey District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vevey became the capital of the new district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. The blazon of

1800-650: The lake in 2008 and has become an emblem for the townspeople. The Confrérie des Vignerons (Brotherhood of Winegrowers) organises the Winegrowers' Festival ( Fête des Vignerons ) four or five times each century (one per generation) to celebrate its wine-growing traditions and culture. On those occasions an arena for 16,000 spectators is built in the marketplace – the Grande Place, which is the second-biggest marketplace in Europe , after Lisbon , Portugal . The festivals date from

1860-918: The list are: the Alimentarium ( fr ); the Museum de la Confrérie des Vignerons ( fr ); the Museum Jenisch ; the Museum suisse de l’appareil photographique ( fr ). There are three churches: the Roman Catholic Church of Notre-Dame; the Orthodox Church of the Great Martyr Barbara ; the Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Martin. The other seven buildings are: the Administration Building and Historical Archives of Nestlé SA; Aile Castle ;

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1920-539: The location of the young Theodore "Laurie" Laurence's early studies at boarding school as well as a stop on Amy March's European trip. It is in Vevey where she hears of her sister's death and becomes engaged to Laurie. Vevey was also the place where, in real life, Alcott met Ladislas Wiesniewski, who served as one of the models for Laurie. Vevey is also the lakeside town used as the setting for Anita Brookner's Booker Prize-winning novel Hotel du Lac . H. G. Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come , published in 1934, predicted

1980-421: The mid-1950s and continuing through the early 1960s, "The Cheerios Kid" was a mainstay in Cheerios commercials. The Kid, after eating Cheerios, quickly dealt with whatever problem presented in the commercial, using oat-produced "Big-G, little-o" "Go-power." By the late 1960s, there was a jingle called "Get Yourself Go" (written by Neil Diamond ), which played as the two used power to solve the problem. The character

2040-422: The municipal coat of arms is Per pale Or and Azure, two Letters V interlaced counterchanged. Vevey has a population (as of December 2020 ) of 19,752. As of 2008 , 43.2% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 16.2%. It has changed at a rate of 14.2% due to migration and at a rate of 3.4% due to births and deaths. Most of

2100-411: The municipality and 4,049 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.0 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 1.2% of the workforce coming into Vevey are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.0% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 25.2% used public transportation to get to work, and 42.2% used

2160-415: The municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 46.4% of the workforce. In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 9,458. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 6, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,246 of which 433 or (34.8%) were in manufacturing and 688 (55.2%) were in construction. The number of jobs in

2220-607: The municipality. Vevey is home to the Alimentarium , the Musée Jenisch , and the Musée suisse de l'appareil photo museums. In 2009 the Alimentarium was visited by 61,358 visitors (the average in previous years was 57,530). In the same year the Musée Jenisch was closed for renovations but the average in previous years was 17,286, and the Musée suisse de l'appareil photo was visited by 10,989 visitors (the average in previous years

2280-517: The municipality. There were 6,966 married individuals, 1,065 widows or widowers and 1,235 individuals who are divorced. As of 2000 , there were 7,830 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2. persons per household. There were 3,667 households that consist of only one person and 334 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 8,012 households that answered this question, 45.8% were households made up of just one person and there were 39 adults who lived with their parents. Of

2340-632: The political district provided pre-school care for a total of 817 children of which 456 children (55.8%) received subsidized pre-school care. The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years. There were 1,024 students in the municipal primary school program. The obligatory lower secondary school program lasts for six years and there were 852 students in those schools. There were also 92 students who were home schooled or attended another non-traditional school. As of 2000 , there were 712 students in Vevey who came from another municipality, while 537 residents attended schools outside

2400-439: The population (as of 2000 ) speaks French (12,526 or 77.3%) as their first language, with Italian being second most common (854 or 5.3%) and Portuguese being third (601 or 3.7%). There are 599 people who speak German and 7 people who speak Romansh . The age distribution, as of 2009 , in Vevey is; 1,945 children or 10.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1,928 teenagers or 10.7% are between 10 and 19. Of

2460-417: The population) did not answer the question. Vevey has an average of 124.1 days of rain or snow per year and on average receives 1,234 mm (48.6 in) of precipitation . The wettest month is August during which time Vevey receives an average of 138 mm (5.4 in) of rain or snow. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 10.7 days. The month with the most days of precipitation

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2520-470: The population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 43 individuals (or about 0.27% of the population) who were Jewish , and 1,083 (or about 6.68% of the population) who were Islamic . There were 52 individuals who were Buddhist , 47 individuals who were Hindu and 38 individuals who belonged to another church. 2,189 (or about 13.51% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist , and 1,050 individuals (or about 6.48% of

2580-445: The progressive-rock band Yes , recorded the final organ portion of the song "Awaken" , and the organ part in the song "Parallels", (both on the Yes album Going for the One ), on the pipe organ in St. Martin's Church in Vevey. A further instrumental track, Vevey (Revisited) appears in part on the ' YesYears ' album, and in full on the 2003 remaster of Going for the One . Wakeman also used

2640-617: The protection of the Bernese government. Vevey lived through a period of prosperity after the Vaud Revolution of 1798. In the 19th century industrial activities included mechanical engineering at the Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey , food (Nestlé) and tobacco ( Rinsoz & Ormond ) . Vevey is a major center of the Swiss chocolate industry since the 18th century. The Cailler factory

2700-409: The rest of the households, there are 1,694 married couples without children, 1,754 married couples with children. There were 527 single parents with a child or children. There were 149 households that were made up of unrelated people and 182 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. In 2000 there were 264 single family homes (or 20.5% of the total) out of

2760-487: The restaurant. St Martin's Church, a few minutes' walk away from the Grande Place, contains the bodies of a number of those who condemned King Charles I of England to death – especially that of Edmund Ludlow who escaped to Vevey after the death of Oliver Cromwell . Additionally, there is a large fork just off the shore of the lake. The fork was originally installed in 1995 as a temporary exhibit. Removed in 1996 and replaced in 2007, it finally got authorization to remain in

2820-556: The rights to use the term "oats". Cheerios' production was based upon the extrusion process invented for Kix in 1937. The oat flour process starts in Minneapolis before being shipped to factories in Iowa , Georgia , and Buffalo , New York. On 1976, 35 years after the cereal was first introduced, "Cinnamon Nut Cheerios" became the first alternate variety of Cheerios to be sold in stores. Nearly 3 years later, in 1979, " Honey Nut Cheerios "

2880-419: The same ingredients as modern-day Cheerios but were repackaged in a throwback campaign to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Cheerios cereals being sold (1941–2021). In May 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a letter to General Mills indicating that Cheerios was being sold as an unapproved new drug, due to labeling which read in part: The FDA letter indicated that General Mills needed to change

2940-492: The setting of Henry James ' novella Daisy Miller . In Ernest Hemingway 's short story "A Canary for One", three Americans—a woman and a couple—meet on a train. Vevey is named as the place where the daughter of the woman fell in love with a local man and was taken away by her family, while the couple had spent their honeymoon there. It is also mentioned in Little Women , the classic American novel by Louisa May Alcott , as

3000-562: The shape of a solid torus . In some countries, including the United Kingdom , Cheerios is marketed by Cereal Partners under the Nestlé brand; in Australia and New Zealand , Cheerios is sold as an Uncle Tobys product. It was first manufactured in 1941 as CheeriOats . Cheerios were introduced on May 1, 1941, as "Cheerioats". The name was shortened to "Cheerios" in 1945, after a competing cereal manufacturer, Quaker Oats , claimed to hold

3060-520: The tertiary sector was 8,206. In the tertiary sector; 1,749 or 21.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 228 or 2.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 614 or 7.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 218 or 2.7% were in the information industry, 382 or 4.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 2,150 or 26.2% were technical professionals or scientists, 432 or 5.3% were in education and 1,437 or 17.5% were in health care. In 2000 , there were 8,153 workers who commuted into

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3120-628: The title for the best rowing club in Romandie . Two hospitals are located in the municipality (Providence, in activity, and Samaritain, under renovation), as well at the Pharmacy of the Eastern Vaud Hospitals (until 2019). The action of Rousseau 's Julie, or the New Heloise is set in and around Vevey. Vevey, and in particular the hotel "Trois Couronnes" is one of two locations that comprise

3180-411: The video. In 2014, General Mills released a Super Bowl ad titled "Gracie," featuring the same family: in the commercial, the father, using Cheerios to illustrate his meaning, tells the daughter that a new baby is coming, that her mother is pregnant, and the daughter accepts this—as long as they also get a puppy—and the father agrees, while the mother looks a little surprised. To promote the premiere of

3240-470: Was 11,874). Vevey is home to the Bibliothèque médiathèque municipale library. The library has (as of 2008 ) 64,994 books or other media, and loaned out 153,629 items in the same year. It was open a total of 273 days with average of 34 hours per week during that year. FC Vevey-Sports 05 is the town's football club. Club Aviron Vevey , also known as CAVy, is the town's rowing club. They currently hold

3300-461: Was about 1014.16 CHF (US$ 810, £460, €650) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 1817.64 CHF (US$ 1450, £820, €1160). The average apartment price in Vevey was 95.7% of the national average of 1116 CHF. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010 , was 0.45%. The historical population is given in the following chart: There are 14 structures in Vevey that are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance . The four museums on

3360-498: Was also featured in ads in the mid-1960s; General Mills was the primary sponsor of his animated program. This cartoon character, a cheery young girl, was seen in 1942–1943 magazine advertising and Sunday newspaper's comics sections. These ads were multi-panel cartoons where Cheeri O'Leary interacted with entertainers of the day, including Charlotte Greenwood , Barbara Stanwyck , Dick Powell , Joan Blondell , Johnny Mack Brown , Betty Hutton , and Claudette Colbert . Beginning in

3420-404: Was founded in 1819. Milk chocolate was also developed there by Daniel Peter in 1875. Vevey has an area, as of 2009 , of 2.4 square kilometers (0.93 sq mi). Of this area, 0.07 km (0.027 sq mi) or 2.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.11 km (0.042 sq mi) or 4.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.13 km (0.82 sq mi) or 89.5%

3480-711: Was introduced. General Mills sold approximately 1.8 million cases of Honey Nut Cheerios in its first year. Since their introduction, Cheerios have become a popular baby food . Generally first fed to children aged 9–12 months, Cheerios serve to help infants transition to eating solid food, as well as develop fine motor skills. In January 2014, General Mills announced that it would halt the use of genetically modified ingredients in original Cheerios. However, General Mills notes for Original Cheerios that "trace amounts of genetically modified (also known as 'genetically engineered') material may be present due to potential cross contact during manufacturing and shipping". In February 2015,

3540-570: Was revived briefly in the late 1980s in similar commercials. In 2012, The Cheerios Kid and his sidekick Sue were revived in an internet video that showed how Cheerios "can lower cholesterol." Video clips of "the Kid" and Sue are part of a montage included in a 2014 TV commercial, along with clips of the Honey Nut Cheerios bee's early commercials. In 1984 and 1985, characters from the comic strip Peanuts were featured in many Cheerios commercials. In

3600-655: Was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006, and is now part of the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District . It is part of the French-speaking area of Switzerland . Vevey is home to the world headquarters of the international food and beverage company Nestlé , founded here in 1867. Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in 1875, with the aid of Henri Nestlé . The English actor and comedian Charlie Chaplin resided in Vevey from 1952 until his death in 1977. A piloti settlement existed here as early as

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