Nestlé - problème éthique
Milk Powder breaks the Code
• Introduction
Nestlé Corp. is a 143 years old company but has gone through almost 40 years of legal and ethical issues. The biggest one is the promotion and the lack of transparency regarding baby milk powder. Nestlé Corp. has privileged the power of money rather than the lives of millions of babies around the world. How can it still let go?
• Nestlé in figures:
← Created in Switzerland, in 1866 by Henry Nestlé.
← 1st Food Group in the World
← CEO: Paul Bulcke
← Turnover 2007 : 65 421 million €
← Net profit 2007: 6 647 million €
← Employs 283,000 people
← Head Office located in Vevey, Switzerland.
← Controls 40% of the worldwide production of infant powder milk (2 billions $US) .
← Main brands belonged to Nestlé Corp.:
← Nescafé
• Aquarel
• Buitoni
• Herta
• Sveltesse
• La Laitière
• Maggi
• Vittel
• Contrex
• Lanvin
• San Pellegrino
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• How did this all begin? The Facts:
← 1974: The NGO ‘War on Want’ publishes the brochure « The Baby Killer », which inspires later on a book: « Nestlé kills babies ». This article denounced the marketing strategies of all multinational companies that produce and sell foodstuff for babies, and especially Nestlé. Boycotts in the UK first then in the USA (then around the world) occurred between 1977 and 1984.
← 1981: WHO created a Code of Conduct on marketing and promotion of baby foodstuff worldwide.
← According to IBFAN, Nestlé is still today the first one to break the rules of the Code (since the first report of 1987!).
← Where did it happen? Europe, Africa, South America, USA, China.
← Parties : Nestlé Corp. vs. ‘Tiers-Monde Group of Bern’. Nestlé Corp. vs. Public