Creating Shared Value Transparently
I have spoken in the past about the importance – and challenges – of being more transparent and sharing progress in meeting our societal commitments at Nestlé. For this reason, I am proud to share our 2013 Creating Shared Value report, published this week. In this year’s report we have taken another step forward in […]
The Self-Sufficient School – A Proposal for Quality Education
Fundación Paraguaya In many emerging countries, young people face similar situations in terms of education. Overall, it makes little difference to vulnerable members of society whether they complete secondary education or not. If they drop out of education at an early stage, they can find some kind of subsistence activity to help them to earn […]
Creating Lasting Change Through Public Private Partnerships
Swisscontact promotes economic, social and environmental sustainability by supporting people to develop the skills they need to contribute to local commercial life. For over fifty years, we’ve found that people possessing relevant market skills are those who have the greatest capacity to succeed in, and help transform, local economies. As an organisation we’re best known […]
Meeting Nutrition Commitments in Latin America
Nestlé Executive Vice President and Head of Zone Americas (AMS) Last week I attended the World Economic Forum on Latin America in Peru, where discussion will focus on the theme of ‘delivering growth and strengthening societies’. In a region where many countries shoulder what’s known as the ‘double burden’ of malnutrition, one way to strengthen […]
Nestlé report sets out forward-looking commitments
Nestlé has published a set of forward-looking commitments to society and on environment sustainability it aims to meet by 2020 or earlier. The company has identified 30 goals in the areas of nutrition, water, rural development, sustainability and compliance in its new report, ‘Nestlé in Society: creating shared value and meeting our commitments 2012’. The […]
Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value
Help your programme scale up! We are looking to invest in social change by helping innovative, commercially viable, and high impact initiatives achieve social scale and financial sustainability. The winning entry will benefit from financial support of up to CHF 500,000 (approx. USD 530,000). Specific fields of activity include, but are not limited to: agriculture, […]
2012 Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value winner announced and 2014 call for nominations launched
We have recently announced the winner of our 2012 Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Valueat our annual Global Creating Shared Value Forum in New Delhi, India. So what is the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value? Every two years up to three innovative schemes related to water, nutrition or rural development are selected for the […]
No future without sustainable agriculture
By 2050, the world will have to feed more than nine billion people. To meet this demand, current levels of global food production must double. This is not a new issue. Ten years ago, Nestlé was one of three major consumer goods manufacturers to found the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, the only global food industry initiative […]
The Challenges of Achieving Greater Transparency
Voûte, Nestlé Vice President and Global Head of Public Affairs At Nestlé we believe that actions speak louder than words. We have to deliver what we promise. We have to be transparent if we are to persuade our stakeholders, our partners, and our critics, that we are building our business in a long-term, sustainable way. […]