Nestlé is a one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. A Swiss company that has over 6000 brands, more than 450 factories and operations in more than 80 countries. Nestlé produces food products including baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, pet foods, and snacks.
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| Social :: Labour Rights | Green America Responsible Shopper profile | Listed in the Coffee Industry / food Industry | Aug. 22, 2011 | Nestle | |
| ClimateCounts.org | Climate Counts compares companies on their commitment to tackling global warming. Change from previous year's score: +1 Review: 16/22 points. Nestle regularly measures sub-units of the company's impact on global warming. Reduce: 34/56 points. Nestle has established general goals to reduce the company's energy use, reducing its impact on global warming (i.e., its greenhouse gas emissions or climate footprint). Policy Stance: 4/10 points. Nestle provides some public information that it supports public policy that addresses climate change. Report: 10/12 points. Nestle has made public information available on its companywide efforts to address global warming. | May 12, 2011 | Nestle | ||
| Social :: Gender Equality | Oxfam | As part of the Behind the Brands campaign Oxfam has rated company policies for the ten largest companies in the food and beverage industry on seven areas (women, small-scale farmers, farm workers, water, land, climate change and transparency). Each company was given a score out of ten for each of the seven areas examined. 8-10 = Good, 6-7 = Fair, 4-5 = some progress, 2-3 = poor, 0-1 = poor. The Behind the Brands scorecard examines whether the policies of the Big 10 promote women‟s welfare and encourage their inclusion in the food supply chain on equal terms. The scorecard also looks for policies which guarantee a discrimination-free workplace. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Water | Oxfam | The Behind the Brands scorecard assesses policies which demonstrate a company's commitment to respecting the human right to water, to disclosing and reducing water use and discharges throughout its operations, and to better managing the use of water from water-stressed regions. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Land | Oxfam | The Oxfam Behind the Brands scorecard measures whether companies have put in place policies to ensure their supply chains are free from „land grabs‟. This includes policies that promote free, prior and informed consent through the entire supply chain and insists on zero tolerance for those suppliers who obtain land through violations of land rights and land tenure. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Supply Chain Policy | Oxfam | The Behind the Brand scorecard assesses how the Big 10s policies ensure that those who feed the world don‟t go hungry themselves. The scorecard looks for policies which guarantee small farms access to company supply chains on equitable terms, allow farmers to earn a decent income, and channel investments to them (such as agricultural services, credit and inputs) which boost productivity. It also assesses the commitment of companies to ensure that supply chains comply with sustainable production standards, including Fairtrade, Utz Certified and Rainforest Alliance. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Labour Rights | Oxfam | The Behind the Brands scorecard assesses whether business policies enforce fair working conditions along the supply chain, allowing farm workers to organize and access grievance procedures and ensuring that agricultural workers earn enough to meet the basic needs of their families (a 'living wage'). | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Climate Change | Oxfam | The Behind the Brands scorecard looks for company policies which lead in mitigating harmful GHG emissions as well as assessing and implementing long term solutions to changes already in motion. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Corporate Governance :: Reporting | Oxfam | Given their powerful role in advising governments on how to regulate the global food system, company lobbying efforts and financial contributions to governments must also be made public.The Behind the Brands scorecard assesses the extent to which companies readily make this information available. | Feb. 26, 2013 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Human Rights | 100% on Corporate Equality Index | Company listed under the Food & Beverages category. | Jan. 1, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Amalgamated Research | ethicalconsumer.org | A profile on this company can be seen at 'Ethiscore' website. Follow source link for details on company record and involvements. | May 13, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Human Rights | Green America Responsible Shopper profile | Listed in the Coffee Industry / food Industry | Aug. 22, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Water | Stop Corporate Abuse | Nestle has been criticised for the promotion of bottled water and undermining local control of water supplies in communities by turning water into a profit driven commodity. | May 17, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Climate Change | Carbon Disclosure Leadership | Listed in The Global 500 CDLI* 2010 under Consumer Staples sector with the rating of 92 for the Carbon disclosure score. *Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) | Jan. 1, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Labour Rights | IUF Workers Rights | A settlement has been agreed which brings recognition and bargaining rights to the IUF-affiliated SBNIP at the Nescafé factory in Panjang, Indonesia. The agreement, which was initialed by the IUF and Nestlé corporate management on March 28 and signed by the union and local Nestlé management on March 31, sets the stage for the SBNIP to bargain the Panjang workers' collective agreement including the wage bargaining which Nestlé management had been steadfastly rejecting for years. In the course of their 3-year struggle for recognition and full bargaining rights, the SBNIP stood up to harassment and systematic pressure on leaders and members. They received support in many forms from IUF members around the world through the Nespressure campaign actions. | March 31, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Knowmore.org Profile | Knowmore.org is a wiki based amalgamated research site raising awareness of corporate abuse and ethical consumerism. Follow source link for further information on this company's histroy and involvements. | Nestle | |||
| Boycotts | Baby Milk Action | Nestlé is the target of a boycott because it contributes to the unnecessary death and suffering of infants around the world by aggressively marketing baby foods in breach of international marketing standards. Even Nestlé's Public Affairs Manager acknowledges the boycott has widespread support. | June 10, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Labour Rights | Labor Rights | Across the globe Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has hampered workers’ efforts to act collectively even as they claim to support their workers’ right to organize, according to the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers (IUF). Workers who have challenged the management’s hypocrisy have faced harassment, wage deductions and suspension. While Nestlé claims to promise “good food, good life,” the company’s actions around the world have resulted in serious human rights abuses. | Dec. 10, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Climate Change | Carbon Disclosure Leadership | Listed in The Global 500 CDLI* 2010 under Consumer Staples sector with the rating of 92 for the Carbon disclosure score. *Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) | Jan. 1, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Human Rights | Global Exchange | Nestle continues to buy cocoa from the Ivory Coast, despite the use of forced child labour in that country. | March 23, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Deforestation | Greenpeace | Greenpeace launched a campaign in March 2010 asserting that Nestle, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction. Two months later Nestle announced a commitment to stop using products that come from rainforest destruction. | May 1, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Corporate Governance | Green America Responsible Shopper profile | Listed in the Coffee Industry / food Industry | Aug. 22, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Corporate Governance :: Marketing | Baby Milk Action | The latest global monitoring report from the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) was published in November 2007. It is called Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2007 and includes monitoring results from 67 countries gathered in the period since the last round-up report (June 2004 to October 2007). The results show Nestlé and other companies continue to violate the International Code and Resolutions in a systematic and institutionalised way. Nestlé violations stand out as particularly widespread, unsurprising as it is the market leader, and bad in terms of the provisions of the Code that are broken. The company claims to support these measures in its own list of developing countries (it does not undertake to abide by them elsewhere despite the fact the Code makes no distinction between countries), but the results show that it does not do so. | March 1, 2008 | Nestle | |
| Good Shopping Guide | Brands in 'bottled water' category received BOTTOM Rating; with a score of 36 out of a possible score of 100 in the Ethical Company Organisation's 2009 'Good Shopping Guide' (uk) which evaluates brands with regard to the Environment; Animal Welfare and Human Rights records. | Nestle | |||
| Environmental :: Climate Change | Green America Responsible Shopper profile | Listed in the Coffee Industry / food Industry | Aug. 22, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Environmental :: Climate Change | WWF Palm Oil Buyers Scorecard | Score Composition: *Active member of RSPO: 0.5 *Company have a policy on the responsible use of palm oil: 5.5 *Company have a public, time-bound, targeted plan to use CSPO: 2.75 *Company use CSPO at the time of the assessment: 0 Total: 8.75 / 29 | Jan. 1, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Human Rights | Free2Work | Nestlé participates in the UN Global Compact and supports the core labor standards of the ILO. In addition to these steps, the company should also demand visibility into the supply chain from the processors from whom it buys its cocoa. Being able to trace all cocoa supplies is a key step for the industry. This will spur the creation of systems for remediating child labor. Score: 10/48 | Jan. 1, 2010 | Nestle | |
| Health | Green America Responsible Shopper profile | Listed in the Coffee Industry | Aug. 22, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Labour Rights | Oxfam | Oxfam has analyzed what the "Big Four" coffee roasters have done in 12 months to help solve the global coffee crisis. Taking four key issues, and rating the companies out of 100, Oxfam scores It rates none of them above "failure". Two companies in particular appear not to be taking seriously the human crisis in their supply chain. | Oct. 3, 2006 | Nestle | |
| Social :: Labour Rights | Free2Work | Nestlé participates in the UN Global Compact and supports the core labor standards of the ILO. In addition to these steps, the company should also demand visibility into the supply chain from the processors from whom it buys its cocoa. Being able to trace all cocoa supplies is a key step for the industry. This will spur the creation of systems for remediating child labor. | June 21, 2011 | Nestle | |
| Resource - The Boycott Book | Nestle | ||||
| Previous link with Mugabe | The South African civil rights initiative, AfriForum, launched an international campaign calling on people to boycott all Nestl products, unless Nestl decided by 7 October 2009 to stop buying milk from Grace Mugabe wife of the Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe. From 4 October 2009, Nestl stopped buying any milk from Grace Mugabe. | Nestle |
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