3. Facts
- Over 450 factories in 86
countries
- 339, 000 employees
- over $15 billion in annual profit
Fig. 2. Nestle-logo. Digital image. Nestle. N.p., n.d. Web.
4. Corporation: Environment
- Sacrifice is necessary for the greater good
- World's leading nutrition, health and wellness company
- Nestlé tries its best to help both the world and the
environment
- 27th World Environmental Center Gold Medal award
- Was and still is actively working to better the world
5. Corporation: Environment
- Nestlé has identified water as its major environmental
challenge and has taken steps to help
Fig. 3. Water. Digital image. Natural Grocers. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
6. Corporation: Social Welfare
Poverty, Health, Education, Hunger
Commitment to farmers:
- Educating them on disease/soil management, improved
marketing skills, access to quality cocoa development
materials, crop diversification, and conservation techniques
- Over 540,000 farmers reached to improve income by
45%, use of accounting practices 64%, wastewater
treatment improved by 20%, 51% increase farm mapping ,
16% increase in harvesting
- $23 million in direct financial assistance to over 44,000
7. Corporation: Social Welfare
(Continued)
Other commitments to health:
- Over $500 million put into research for curing metabolic,
neurological, and cardiovascular disorders; 20 products
developed
- 68 programs run in 64 countries to educate over 5.4
million children on good nutrition for the prevention of
obesity and malnutrition
- Providing clean drinking water and sanitation facilities for
over 300,000 pupils in village schools in South Asia and
Africa; 32% of rural factories provide public drinking water
- Other charitable ventures
8. Corporation: Culture
● Nutritional Gourmet
Cooking Workshop
(nutritious ingredients)
● US Commitment to Cocoa
(joined to make
sustainable amount of
Cocoa)
● Work Diversity (fair and
equal employment, mixing
cultures)
fig. 5. US Commitment to Cocoa. Digital image. Cocoa Plan. Nestle, n.d. Web.
fig. 4. Ecuador. Nutritional Gourmet Cooking Workshop. Digital image. Cocoa Plan.
Nestle, n.d. Web. <http://www.nestlecocoaplan.com/ecuador-nutritional-gourmet-
cooking-workshop/>.
9. Corporation: Labor
*Effects of Globalization: The Nestle corporation is
-Found in over 150 countries with over 300,000
employees
*Employee Assurance:
-Emphasis on individual responsibility.
-Taking advantage of the International Training
Centre in Switzerland and make international ties.
Fig. 6. "Quality and Safety." Http://www.nestle.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 14
June 2013.
10. Corportation: Labor
*Problems in the Past:
-Child labor
*How Nestle Responded: Worked with the FLA to
investigate this problem and took necessary steps for
prevention in the future
These Steps:
1. Nestle created over 30 schools in Africa
2. Nestle creating monitors for the farms
Fig. 7. Cocoa Plan. Digital image. Nestle. Nesle, n.d. Web. 16 June
2013.
12. NGOs: Environment
● Has offices in over forty countries with it's
international headquarters located in
Amsterdam
● Focuses on working with
world wide environmental
issues
● Protested Nestle's use of
palm oil in their Kit Kat
bars fig. 8. Save It!! Digital image. Jovoto. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
Greenpeace
13. NGOs: Environment
● Nestle buys resources from
international companies that might
harm the environment
● Targets rural communities
worldwide for their water resources
Fig. 9. Oil Mess. Digital image. The Understory. Http://understory.ran.org/, n.d.
Web. 16 June 2013.
Fig. 10. Pu Pu Fresh Water Springs, New Zealand. Digital image. The
Anti Tourist. Http://theantitourist.wordpress.com/, n.d. Web. 16 June
2013.
14. NGOs: Environment
● allaboutwater- promotes tap water, over
bottled
● timeforchang-
CO2 admisstions
and oil used
Fig. 11. Plastic Water Bottles. Digital image. Mother Nature Network. N.p., 21 Oct. 2009. Web. 14 June 2013.
15. NGOs: Environment
● Nestle has about 70 different water bottle brands,
including Poland Springs.
● In a 2001 report done by World Wide Fund for Nature,
about 1.5 million tons of plastic was used to bottle 89
billion liters of water.
● In the making, transportation and disposal of water
bottles CO2 is released.
● About 6 kg of CO2 per kg of plastic
● Water it taken from undeveloped countries, bottled and
given to developed countries
Fig. 12. Jeffries, Adrianna. Is It Green. Digital image. Inhabitat. Inhabitat, 25 Sept. 2008. Web. 16 June
2013.
16. NGO: Social Welfare
● Water bottle controversy
where several brand of Nestle
bottled water have been
reported with health issues.
○ Questionable purity of their
water (2005)
○ Unpleasant odor in water
(2011)
● E-coli outbreak in Nestle
cookie dough (June 2009)
○ refused FDA access to
internal records Fig. 13. Poland Spring water bottle. Digital Image.
N.p.,n.d. Web. 11 June 2013
17. ● NGO: War on Want
● Campaigns against many different
controversial subjects
● Currently protesting:
○ British government encouraging
privatisation
○ Tax exemption for companies in
the UK
● Baby Formula Controversy (1974 -
present)
○ Nestle promoted the use of
formula
○ Millions of babies die from
malnutrition
NGO: Social Welfare
Fig. 14. Some call it Nestle, we call it Nastie. Digital image. N.p., n.
d. Web. 11 June 2013.
War on Want on
malnutrition of infants:
"Children whose bodies
have wasted away until all
that is left is a big head on
top of a shriveled body of
an old man."
18. NGO: Culture
-many people find that the prices of baby formulas really expensive and it
contains bad substances for infant health that causes sickness and deaths
-effects the relationship between
the Mother and the child
-social and physical bonding
-emotional development
-MRI of Brain scan show that breast feeding
mothers develop more empathy &
understanding towards the infants
-main reason why moms buy formula
they buy formulas is because it's
tedious to breast-feed (though it's very
healthy)
fig. 15. Fight the Nestlé Monster. Digital image. Blsciblogs. Blsciblogs, n.d. Web. 16 June 2013. <http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.
edu/mgt4880nestle/>.
19. NGO Culture: Baby Milk Action
- BMA (member of the IBFAN) have been trying to get govs
to petition for baby safety rights
- People have been trying to get Nestle to agree with
the Four Point Plan
- Accept Int'l Code
- Make changes to their formula
(written statement)
-BMA Rep assistance
-If there's no violations within
18 months, the boycotts will stop
Fig. 16. Nestle Free Zone. Digital image. Protecting Breastfeeding. Babymilkaction.org, n.d. Web.
16 June 2013.
20. NGO: Labor
● Fair Labor Association
● Headquarters in Washington D.C. w/ offices in
China, Switzerland, and Turkey
● Officially formed in 1999
● Places responsibility on companies
● Offers three different approaches
○ Collaborative approach
○ Innovative and sustainable strategies and
resources
○ Transparent and independent assessment
○ Third party complaint process
21. ● No change in Ivory Coast
● Obvious effort to fix mistakes
● The damage is done
● What else is Nestlé hiding about labor in
other countries?
● What does this mean for other
companies?
Nestlé, Globalization, and Labor
fig. 17. A Child Cracking Cocoa Nuts. Digital image. BBC.co.uk. British Broadcast Network, n.d. Web. 14 June 2013.
<http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56636000/jpg/_56636972_cocoa9.jpg>.
22. Essential Questions:
What are the upsides and downsides of
globalization?
How do you find the right balance as an
individual, NGO, corporation?
Globalization is here; how do we, as global
citizens, deal with it?