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
Our role in nutrition, health and wellness
With more than 1 billion servings sold each day, Nestlé is the world’s largest food company. Our portfolio, the
widest in the food industry, offers everything from Popularly Positioned Products (PPPs) for consumers on low
incomes to premium products and services for those who want an indulgent moment of pleasure. We help people
live more enjoyable, healthier lives, leveraging 150 years of expertise to bring them foods, beverages and services
they can trust.
This chapter is an overview of how we make this strategy a daily reality.
The year in brief
Challenges Actions Achievements
The food industry must work together
with governments and health authorities
to tackle the double burden of overand
undernutrition, and the noncommunicable
diseases that are
generated as a result.
We conduct research to see how our
portfolio can positively contribute to
addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Our Policy on Micronutrient Fortification
of Foods & Beverages was revised in 2015
to further strengthen our commitment.
192 billion
Micronutrient-fortified servings of foods
and beverages delivered annually.
Overweight and obesity can be caused
by environmental factors that are hard to
control, but the best methods of
preventing these diseases are active
lifestyles and better nutrition. In
many parts of the world, children lack
nutrition education.
We continuously improve the nutritional
benefits of our foods and beverages,
developing their health benefits through
reformulation, while simultaneously
driving enjoyment through taste. We also
have a clear focus on implementing
nutrition education over the full course
of a life.
84
Countries in which Healthy Kids
Programmes have been activated to
promote healthy diets and lifestyles,
including physical activity among
school-age children.
Determining what and how much
individuals should eat can be confusing.
We have a responsibility to promote our
foods and beverages truthfully and
reliably, enabling consumers to make
better-informed decisions about their
own nutrition.
We are committed to transparency
about the content of our foods and
beverages. We help by providing clear
information about ingredients,
nutritional benefits, health information
and portion size on all packaging.
89.2%
Relevant products with front-of-pack
GDA-based labels.
Good nutrition should play a role in the
lives of individuals from conception
onwards. It is important that families get
the missing foods and nutrition they
lack in their diet, and in a way families
can trust and rely on.
We want our children’s brands to be
responsibly communicated to parents
and children, providing a source of
enjoyment from foods and beverages
they can trust.
Policy on Marketing
Communication to Children
strengthened and relaunched.
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