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
Organisation
The Consumer Goods
Forum (CGF)
Salt Smart Americas
initiative
World Economic Forum
(WEF)
United Nations 10-Year
Framework Programme on
Sustainable Food Systems
Our activities this year
The CGF brings together the CEOs and senior management of more than 400 retailers,
manufacturers, service providers and other stakeholders across 70 countries, with combined sales
in excess of CHF 3.01 trillion.
In 2015, the CGF board of directors (which includes Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke as the manufacturers’
co-sponsor of the health and wellness pillar) voted on the following:
• Appointment of a Health & Wellness External Scientific Advisory Council;
• Resolution on food waste to contribute to the UN goal to halve food waste by 2025 within
member retail and manufacturing operations. The board also pledged to reduce food losses
throughout production and supply chains and to maximise the value of any remaining waste;
• Resolution on social sustainability/human rights: the board recognised its role as a group of
responsible businesses to respect and promote human rights and decent working conditions. It
pledged to harness its collective power as an industry group to identify and address issues and
geographies of shared concern, where specific action plans will be developed to support the
eradication of forced labour; and
• Commitment on marketing to children: the board reinforced its pledge to stop targeted
marketing to children under 12 for products that do not fulfil specific nutrition criteria based on
scientific evidence and/or applicable national and international dietary guidelines.
Nestlé’s support for the Salt-Smart Americas initiative started in 2012 with the common objective to
help people decrease their dietary salt intake to a maximum of 5 g a day by 2020. Within the
initiative, Nestlé contributes its expertise to help create an effective salt reduction approach
combining aggressive targets and a relevant consumer awareness strategy.
As a signatory of the Pan American Health Organization’s and the World Economic Forum’s 2011
statement on Dietary Sodium/Salt Reduction in the Americas, Nestlé supports the good work on salt
reduction led by the Salt Smart Consortium.
Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is the vice-chairman of the WEF’s Foundation Board and a
trustee of organisation’s Global Challenge Initiative on Environment and Natural Resource Security.
While our CEO, Paul Bulcke, is a trustee of the Global Challenge Initiative on Food Security and
Agriculture, as well as a member of the steering board of the Future of ‘Healthy’ initiative, which
aims to highlight the value of, and establish the investment case for, healthy populations, and
‘transform investment models for the eco-system of healthy’.
Nestlé is a key member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee from the private sector.
We are specifically involved in the workstreams to strengthen collaboration among food system
stakeholders to increase the sector’s sustainable production and consumption (SPC) performance,
and to increase the access and application of actionable knowledge, information and tools to
mainstream SPC in food systems.
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