Nestlé Waters – Creating Shared Value report

Paul Bulcke
Chief executive officer
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About Creating Shared Value
Creating Shared Value is the basic way Nestlé does business – by leveraging core activities and
partnerships to simultaneously create value for shareholders as well as for society. We believe that
long-term success is assured if value is jointly created by the company and the community, and where
a strong partnership built on trust can be nurtured.
Our Creating Shared Value strategy is built over and above our compliance with national laws, relevant
international standards and our own Corporate Business Principles, as well as other internal policies
such as the Nestlé Policy on Environmental Sustainability, which applies a product life-cycle approach
from farm to consumer in order to minimise the environmental impact of our operations.
Given the nature of our business, we have determined that the areas with the greatest potential for
joint value optimisation with society are nutrition, water and rural development, as these are core to
our activities and vital to the welfare of the people in the countries where we operate.
This document, an extension of Nestlé’s Creating Shared Value Report, aims to describe how the
Creating Shared Value approach is integrated across Nestlé Waters – the bottled water division of our
Group – which represents nearly 10% of our sales.
Access to water in terms of quantity and quality is critical to life, and is becoming increasingly problematic
every day. Rational use of water is an absolute priority for Nestlé, because water is essential to every
stage in our value chain.
At Nestlé Waters, we have made commitments that we believe will enable us to maximise value for
both shareholders and society. These include:
▪ Providing healthy and safe products to cover consumers’ hydration needs
▪ Managing water resources for long-term sustainability
▪ Continuously optimising our environmental performance with a focus on packaging and recycling
▪ Promoting hydration science and awareness from medical communities to the general public
▪ Developing water care behaviours, with a focus on child education
▪ Contributing to the environmental, social and economic development of the communities where
we operate
We are working in collaboration with a number of stakeholders and support a range of projects and
initiatives to achieve these commitments. We hope that you find this report useful and we welcome
your feedback on how Nestlé Waters could even better embed the Creating Shared Value concept in
its operations to improve its business as well as its contribution to society.
Paul Bulcke
Nestlé Waters – Creating Shared Value report 2005-2010