Even before George Clooney came along, the pot was bubbling nicely.

甚至在乔治·克鲁尼出现之前，咖啡机业务就已经腾飞了。

Clooney's public image – sophisticated, cosmopolitan, expensive – fitted Nespresso's desired image.

克鲁尼的公共形象——聪明老成，见多识广，身价高贵——符合奈斯派索期望的印象。

" Mr Clooney embodies elegance, " Anna Lundstrom, the company's chief brand officer, told me.

该公司首席品牌官安娜·伦德斯特龙告诉我：“克鲁尼代表着优雅。”

Clooney has reportedly made more than $40m from his Nespresso work.

据报道，克鲁尼在奈斯派索咖啡机上的收入超过4000万美元。

Pretty much everyone agrees that bringing Clooney on board was a masterstroke – except Gaillard.

几乎所有人都同意，请克鲁尼来代言是一个高招——除了盖拉德。

" Probably. I know there are countries where I'm more famous for being Amal Clooney's husband, " he said Clooneyishly.

“也许吧。我知道在有些国家，我作为阿迈勒·克鲁尼的丈夫更出名，”他轻描淡写地说。

Its success has provided its public face, the actor George Clooney, with the means to maintain a private satellite over Sudan.

雀巢的成功使它的代言人乔治·克鲁尼可以在苏丹上空布置一颗人造卫星。

In Clooney's first ad for Nespresso, which aired in 2006, he wanders into a Nespresso boutique and starts making himself a cup of coffee.

2006年，克鲁尼为奈斯派索拍摄的首支广告播出，在广告中，他走进一家奈斯派索精品店，开始给自己制作一杯咖啡。

They've raised more than $4 million from small donors on the crowdfunding site GoFundMe, plus a couple million more from celebrities like George and Amal Clooney, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey.

他们从众筹网站GoFundMe的小额捐款人手中就筹集到了400多万美元，此外还从乔治·克鲁尼夫妇，史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格和奥普拉·温弗瑞等名人那里筹到了几百万美元。

In 2015, it finally signed up Clooney to a North American deal; until then he had only been the face of the firm in the rest of the world.

2015年，奈斯派索最终和克鲁尼签订了北美代言合同，在那之前，他只是该公司美国以外地区的代言人。

Jean-Marc Duvoisin, who was CEO until the end of last year, told me that brand awareness went up by a multiple of " five or six" when Clooney arrived.

吉恩·马克·杜瓦辛去年年底前一直担任奈斯派索首席执行官。他告诉我，克鲁尼成为北美市场代言人后，品牌知名度提高了“五到六倍”。