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
G4-26, G4-27
Industry leadership
Our nutrition performance is independently audited and
verified annually. We participate voluntarily in a number of
third-party reporting initiatives, where the results and
feedback are made public.
Organisation
FTSE4Good Index
Access to Nutrition Index
(ATNI)
Dow Jones Sustainability
Index (DJSI)
2015 progress
Since 2011, we have remained the first and only breast-milk substitute manufacturer to be included
in the FTSE4Good Index. Nestlé is the only company to restrict the marketing of infant formula and
follow-on formula up to 12 months of age in 152 higher-risk countries.
Nestlé ranked 2 nd in the 2015 assessment of the Global Access to Nutrition Index (published in
January 2016), which benchmarks the world’s largest food and beverage manufacturers on their
nutrition-related commitments, practices and performance. Nestlé ranked 1 st in the subcategories
of breast-milk marketing practices, general nutrition and under-nutrition.
The DJSI, which evaluates the sustainability performance of the largest 2500 companies listed on
the Dow Jones Total Stock Market Index, gave Nestlé an industry-best score of 100/100 for Health
and Nutrition Performance (the industry average is 48/100) and ranked the company with an overall
score of 89/90.
Multi-stakeholder engagement
and leadership
Addressing nutrition and health challenges is complex and
requires the collaboration of many stakeholders. We believe
that participating in, and leading, industry collective efforts
can help raise standards, making the food and beverage
industry more efficient and successful in an effort to improve
public health.
Our stakeholder convenings in March and December 2015
focused on reducing obesity and non-communicable diseases
(NCDs), among other issues. The work group comprised of
topical experts and focused on work to support healthy diets
and lifestyles, and identified how to advance responsible
advertising and promote practices to tackle NCDs.
Organisation
EU Platform for Action
on Diet, Physical Activity
and Health
International Food &
Beverage Alliance (IFBA)
Our activities this year
Nestlé contributes five commitments to the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and
Health, covering:
• Reformulation of Nestlé products;
• The Nestlé Healthy Kids Global Programme;
• Portion guidance on all children’s and family products;
• A consumer-facing education programme in Spain; and
• The Workplace Wellness programme at Nestlé’s headquarters.
In early 2015, the IFBA Progress Report was sent to WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan.
This is a follow-up to the commitments made in 2014 by the CEOs of leading food and non-alcoholic
beverage companies and members of the IFBA (including Nestlé). These enhanced global
commitments guide their companies’ health and wellness strategies over the next five years:
• Reformulate foods and beverages and develop new products that support the goals of
improving diets;
• Provide clear and fact-based nutrition information to all consumers;
• Extend responsible advertising initiatives and marketing to children globally; and
• Raise awareness on balanced diets and increased levels of physical activity.
As a member and co-chair of the IFBA, we comply with its Global Policy on Advertising and
Marketing Communications to Children. We have also signed voluntary pledges on the marketing
of foods to children covering more than 50 countries. For more information on this, please see the
IFBA section.
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