Nestle : ‘Clear insight’: Nestlé wins award for Creating Shared Value report
May 26, 2015 at 03:45 am EDT
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Nestlé has won the CR Reporting Awards 2015 award for the best corporate responsibility report, following an independent vote by almost 5,000 professionals working in the area.
The company beat other multinationals to the top prize in the world's only global annual awards for corporate responsibility reporting, winning in the 'Best Report Published in 2013-14' category for its 2013 Creating Shared Value report (pdf, 3Mb).
Voters rated reports for content, communication, credibility, commitment and comparability, and complimented Nestlé for the "sheer scale and comprehensiveness" of its submission, and the "clear insight" it gives into the importance of sustainability for the company.
Read the official announcement (pdf, 100Kb) on the winners of CR Reporting Awards 2015, and consult our most recent 2014 Creating Shared Value report (pdf, 9Mb).
Nestlé S.A. is the world's leading agri-food group. Net sales break down by category of products as follows:
- powdered and liquid beverages (26.7%): soluble coffees (Nescafé and Starbucks brands), coffee in capsules (Nespresso), chocolate drinks (Nesquik, Milo, etc.), tea drinks (Nestea), etc.;
- pet food (20.3%): brands such as Purina, Friskies, Felix, etc.;
- pharmaceutical, nutrition and well-being products (16.4%): nutritional supplements (Resource, Boost, Nutren, Optifast, Peptamen brands, etc.), infant and maternal nutrition products (NAN, illuma, Cerelac, Nido, Gerber), ketogenic beverages (BrainXpert), (Nesquick, Fitness, Cheerios, Lion, etc.), etc.;
- ready meals and seasoning products (12.5%): frozen and chilled dishes (Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets and Stouffer's brands), soups (Maggi), etc.;
- dairy products and ice cream (11.8%): powdered milk, sweetened condensed milk, yoghurt and cream desserts, ice cream (Nido, Nesvita, Carnation, La Laitière, Coffee Mate, Nestlé Ice Cream, Dreyers, Häagen-Dazs, Extrême brands, etc.);
- chocolates, sweets and biscuits (8.7%): Kit Kat, Smarties, Cailler, Terrafertil, etc. brands;
- bottled waters (3.6%): Nestlé Pure Life, Vittel, Perrier, S. Pellegrino, etc. brands.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (1.2%), France (3.8%), the United Kingdom (3.8%), Germany (2.4%), Europe (12.8%), the United States and Canada (35%), China (5.9%), Asia and Oceania (21.4%) and Latin America (13.7%).