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
Healthy and affordable food G4-DMA, G4-PR1
Products containing Branded Active Benefits
(sales volume, CHF million)
2015 6 193
2014 6687
2013 6863
Products with increase in nutritious ingredients or
essential nutrients*
2015 4643
2014 6359
2013 4 778
*
Based on reports of approximately 82% of factories.
Nutrition and taste: the Nestlé Nutritional Profiling
System and the 60/40+ programme
It is important to us that our foods and beverages are tasty as
well as nutritious. We guarantee the optimal nutritional
contribution of our foods and beverages through the Nestlé
Nutritional Profiling System (NNPS), while the 60/40 programme
drives preferred taste through consumer sensory testing. NNPS
adds the ‘+’ to the 60/40 programme, making it 60/40+, which
helps us to achieve our ambition of taste and nutrition.
Our innovation work begins with the NNPS. The system
operates through a set of criteria based on up-to-date nutrition
science and global public health recommendations. We use
the NNPS criteria to assess all of our foods and beverages
against criteria and how they fit into a children’s or adult’s
dietary daily reference intakes.
The NNPS considers specific nutritional factors such as
added sugars and fructose, saturated fats, trans fats, sodium
and energy content, as well as additional criteria for essential
nutritional contributions that specific types of food or
beverage products should provide (e.g. calcium, protein, fibre
or whole grain).
Each food or beverage that meets the criteria is said to have
attained Nestlé Nutritional Foundation (NF) status, and
accordingly represents an appropriate choice for consumers in
the context of a balanced diet. A food or beverage product can
only attain NF status when all of its nutritional factors meet
category criteria.
The NNPS criteria are reviewed twice yearly by leading
academics. In the last meeting, which took place in October
2015, the experts confirmed the upcoming publication and
conference pipeline for 2016. In addition, we also received
guidance on nutritional issues, such as the best approach to
define portion sizes.
To provide full transparency of the NNPS methodology we
plan to submit a series of publications to leading peerreviewed
scientific journals, written in collaboration with
external nutrition experts. The first publication of the series
will be published in February 2016 in the European Journal of
Nutrition. We also feature the work of the NNPS at academic
conferences. In 2015, we participated in the European
Nutrition Conference (FENS) (Berlin, Germany), the Asian
Congress of Nutrition Conference (Yokohama, Japan) and the
Experimental Biology Meeting (Boston, USA).
In 2015, we assessed 87.01% of our foods and beverages
through the NNPS; of this total, 81.6% of our net sales met or
exceeded the criteria. We remain firmly committed to
improving the nutritional profile of those 18.4% of products
that did not reach NF status through renovation.
Our nutrition-oriented renovation work is supported by the
60/40+ programme, which uses a representative consumer
panel, in which at least 60% of the panel must prefer the taste
in a blind test of the Nestlé food or beverage to those of a
competitor. In 2015, foods and beverages with a sales value of
CHF 33 657 million were analysed, improved or confirmed by
the 60/40+ programme.
Nutritious foods and beverages for children
Our commitment
Our objective
Provide nutritionally sound products designed
for children
By 2015 – Maintain our children’s products portfolio at
100% NF ‘Yes’ status using specific criteria for children
as per official recommendations.
Children’s food and beverages* meeting Nestlé Nutritional
Foundation criteria (%)
Goal: Maintain at 100%
2015 99
2014 98
2013 96
*
By children’s foods and beverages, we mean those where 50% or more of the
consumers are up to 12 years of age, or that have been designed (or perceived as being
designed) for this age group.
We seek to improve our foods and beverages for children by
assessing all of our offerings through the NNPS criteria to
determine their NF status. Ensuring that all of them are both
nutritious and tasty can sometimes represent a significant
challenge. By the end of 2015, virtually all (99%) of our foods
and beverages for children, including Popularly Positioned
Product (PPPs), met all the NNPS criteria. We have been able
to achieve this through tailored innovations and the careful
monitoring of our foods and beverages across all markets,
establishing action plans where gaps exist.
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