Nestlé in society Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2015

Nestlé in society:
Creating Shared Value
Nutrition, health
and wellness
Rural development
Water
Environmental
sustainability
Human rights
and compliance
Our
people
Economic performance G4-DMA, G4-EC1, Compliance G4-DMA (Environmental), Transport G4-DMA, Overall G4-DMA
The full report with complete GRI Index can be found on our
CSV website (www.nestle.com/csv). Also, for the first time this
year, we are reporting against the newly published UN Guiding
Principles Reporting Framework on Human Rights. We have
incorporated reporting on the 11 identified salient human
rights issues into our existing CSV report to demonstrate the
integral nature of respect for human rights to our role in
society. Sustainability reporting is no longer simply a collection
of anecdotal stories and data, but rather a holistic exercise in
internalising and improving a company’s commitment to
sustainable development in a way that can be demonstrated to
both internal and external stakeholders and shareholders alike.
As members of the International Integrated Reporting Council,
we will continue to show the connection between our
business and our societal activities.
CSV in support of the Sustainable
Development Goals
This reporting year was important, not just for Nestlé but for
the United Nations, civil society and the private sector as a
whole. In September 2015, 193 Member States of the UN
adopted 17 new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to
define global priorities from now until 2030. We are reviewing
our commitments against the SDGs and believe we should
focus on specific goals where, by the nature of the business we
are in, we feel we can maximise our impact on a global scale.
The 2015 Nestlé in society: Creating Shared Value report is
our third in the series based on meeting our societal
commitments. We firmly believe that Nestlé’s growth over the
last one-and-a-half centuries has been built upon integrated
thinking where business and societal needs meet. This
fundamental belief will help us accelerate our contribution to
quality of life while staying true to our conviction that, for our
business to prosper in the long term, we must deliver value for
shareholders, the communities in which we operate and
society as a whole.
We have worked with dairy farmers throughout our 150-year history.
Above, farmers deliver milk to the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company
factory in Cham, Switzerland, in 1899.
Through the Village Women Dairy Development Programme, Nestlé
empowers women involved in dairy farming to improve milk quality and
productivity. Training is conducted by all-female teams.
Harvard case study on Nestlé
and Creating Shared Value
Strong SDG-CSV linkages
End hunger, achieve
food security and
improved nutrition and
promote sustainable
agriculture
Ensure access to
water and sanitation
for all
Take urgent action to
combat climate
change and its
impacts *
Ensure healthy lives
and promote
well‐being for
all at all ages
Ensure sustainable
consumption and
production patterns
*
Acknowledging that the United
Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change is the primary
international, intergovernmental
forum for negotiating the global
response to climate change.
At the end of 2015, Professors Michael Porter and Mark Kramer
wrote a teaching case study about Nestlé and Creating Shared
Value for the Harvard Business School. The case study shows
how Nestlé applies a shared value strategy to drive growth and
competitive success in Nutrition, Health and Wellness, while
addressing societal issues that impact our business, including
water, rural development and sustainability. It was taught for the
first time in December 2015, in the presence of our Chairman
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and will soon become a teaching case
study available to business schools for download globally.
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