Highlights from Nestlé's Creating Shared Value Global Forum :)

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Here are some of the highlights from Nestlé's Creating Shared Value Global Forum 2013. The theme of the event was Creating Shared Value: The changing role of business in development.

Over 20 leading international and Latin American experts from government, academia, civil society and business gathered in Cartagena, Colombia, where they took part in discussions about how to accelerate sustainable development.

The topics included the challenges of over- and under-nutrition across the Americas and the connection between water, the environment and food security.

Nestlé: Transparent on commitments

Nestlé’s efforts to meet a series of commitments in areas where the company engages with society are detailed in a new report, Nestlé in Society 2013 (pdf, 3Mb).

The 35 pledges cover nutrition, water, rural development, sustainability and compliance.

Nestlé aims to fulfil all these commitments by 2020 or earlier. Ten are new this year and six are updated, based on feedback from stakeholders over the last 12 months.

The report underlines Nestlé’s fundamental belief that, for a company to be successful over the long term and create value for shareholders, it must also create value for society. The commitments show our determination to achieve this.

They include, for example, leading the industry in nutrition and health research, and providing nutritionally sound products designed for children.

For the full story, visit the Nestlé global website at http://www.nestle.com/media/newsandfeatures/2013-csv-report

Nestlé announces winner of Creating Shared Value Prize

Today we would like to share something about something dear to the Company: Creating Shared Value.

CSV Prize 2012 WINNER: Fundación Paraguaya

An organisation in Paraguay that aims to boost education and entrepreneurship for young people is the winner of this year’s Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value. Nestlé awarded the prize to Fundación Paraguaya de Cooperatión y Desarrollo for its ‘agricultural self-sufficient school’ project. 



If you want to learn more about Creating Shared Value and the CSV Prize, click the link for the full article: http://www.nestle.com/Media/NewsAndFeatures/Pages/CSV-Prize-2012.aspx

Nestlé spouses support Gawad Kalinga

The spouses of Nestlé Philippines, Inc. (NPI) top executives  recently visited the Gawad Kalinga (GK) Village in Bgy, San Isidro, Lipa City which is sponsored by the company, to gain first-hand insights for finalizing support programs which they will implement to serve various needs of the community.

The spouses led by Mrs. Ying Miller, wife of NPI Chairman and CEO Ying Miller, were met by GK Village President Jhay Juniosa, after which they interacted freely with residents whose homes they visited. An informal discussion was conducted on areas of involvement for Nestlé’s GK initiatives, while the company’s then Lipa factory HR Head Eden Sagisi and HR Employee Relations Specialist Rex Ferrer presented possible activities for execution after the formal “turnover” of the GK Village to the factory. The programs will seek to focus on livelihood, agriculture and environmental initiatives, consistent with Nestlé’s corporate strategy of Creating Shared Value.

The group, which was accompanied by Ms. Ruth Novales and Mr. David Laurel of Nestlé Corporate Affairs, will return to the GK village with concrete program proposals based on a comprehensive needs analysis with the assistance of the company’s Lipa factory HR team. Recently, village residents received bicycle-powered sidecars known as “padyaks” for livelihood purposes, build by sales force of Nestlé Philippines during its annual team-building exercise and turned over to Gawad Kalinga.

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Nestlé Partners with NGOs on CSV Initiatives

Exploring possible partnerships with NGOs to supplement existing CSV initiatives, Corporate Affairs invited Opportunity International Asia Pacific Regional Director Mark Daniels and APPEND CEO Virginia Juan to serve as resource speakers in the CSV Council Meeting held on May 21. Opportunity International and APPEND are organizations that specialize in helping the poorest of the poor start up their own businesses.


During this meeting, the CSV Council discussed the livelihood program initiatives of the Company as well as possible areas for collaboration with the two NGOs on issues regarding microfinance, micro-insurance, and community enterprise models.

“With this meeting, we have once more started an interesting discussion on possible partnerships with other stakeholders leading to CSV programs, which can have greater impact to society,” said Corporate Affairs Head Edith de Leon. This is in line with the thrust to “forge an era of collaboration” as mentioned by Chairman and CEO John Miller in the CSV Forum Philippines held on April 23.

The meeting was attended by Dave Laurel and Misha Rabat of Corporate Affairs; Menard Dacono, Jessie Dantes, and Bots Velez of ICD; Sunny Yu of Nestlé Professional; Art Baria of Technical; Rene Alvarado of SH&E; Kat Castro of Nestlé Nutrition; Gabby Posadas of CBD; and Aimee Ballesteros of Pulilan HR.

 
SOURCE: Nestle Family Balita (June 15, 2010)

From poor to entrepreneur through Nestle's BOW

(Reprinted from March 8, 2010 article of Malaya Business Insight)

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For more than 10 years, Payatas residents and siblings Cris and Jimmy Besas, and their cousin Julius Sagaral, eked out a meager subsistence as tricycle drivers.

Life was a hard grind. A workday meant waking up before sunrise with their children still asleep, to commute to their tricycle route in Cubao, scrambling to earn boundary and gas money before being able to take any of it home.

Today, the two brothers and their cousin are building better lives for themselves and their families as micro-entrepreneurs under a Nestlé program called Business on Wheels (BOW).

The three, who are called BOWERS, sell a range of Nestlé products to carinderias within a territory assigned to each, with continuing guidance, help and training to enable them to grow their operations and income. There are now hundreds of BOWERS nationwide, with the numbers steadily increasing.

"BOW was launched late in 2006 as an entrepreneurship livelihood program. The country has thousands of carinderias which Nestlé wants to serve better while helping our distributors to strengthen their coverage," says Sunny Yu, Head of Channel Category Sales Development of Nestlé Professional, the company’s business unit which focuses on out-of-home consumption and runs the program.

"Under Nestlé’s corporate strategy of Creating Shared Value for both the company and stakeholders in society, BOW is about enabling marginalized Filipinos to become entrepreneurs, to learn skills and confidence in developing their own businesses," Sunny explains.

The qualifications for BOWERS are simple: no educational background is necessary except that they can read and write; they should know how to drive a tricycle; they need to be able to talk to people; they have to raise P15,000 of capital for initial stocks; and most of all, they must be hardworking and persistent.

"The idea is to enable participants to start earning above minimum wage, then to nurture their businesses as various BOWERS are now doing," says Sunny.

BOWERS are taught the nuts and bolts of running a small business, such as managing funds and inventories, and conducting sales calls among customers. The carinderias in their territories are mapped out for them and they are trained to plan daily sales schedules and trips. Eventually, a BOWER can grow his business as much as he desires, acquiring more tricycles and routes as he reinvests his resources.

Potential BOWERS are recruited by word of mouth and evaluated for the strength of their commitment to minimize attrition. Apart from close training and supervision, each BOWER is provided with a partly subsidized tricycle carrier which sports Nestlé brands on its sides, and wears a uniform while doing business. A major attraction to BOWERS is the flexible working hours, since the best period for supplying carinderias is between 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.

Fellow Payatas resident Ronie Dacuag attests to this. Ronie was a bus conductor whose work sometimes took him away from home three days at a stretch, while his wife Elma toiled as a seamstress for P150 to P200 a day.

Often, their children had to fend for themselves at home. Both spouses, now BOWERS with thriving sales routes, are able to spend more time with their children.

Another Payatas resident, Dexter Gorobat, who became a BOWER early in 2009, was a seaman who had to leave his family behind for six months on each deployment. While his seaman’s earnings were good, he wanted to be with his family and believes that BOW will provide them with a good livelihood

For his part, Mario "Toto" Radin, also a Payatas resident, was a janitor at a supermarket chain, trying to make ends meet on his limited earnings, when the chance to join the BOW program came

"The BOW program started out as work, now it’s more of a mission for us because we have seen how it is transforming participants. They are claiming their dignity and pride and awakening to their potentials," says Jon Antonio, Nestlé Professional’s Regional Sales Manager for Streets, "We asked BOWERS to write down their aspirations. First of all, they want to live in their own decent homes. We hope that in five years, they will achieve that and more dreams."

The well-known saying goes: "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime." In today’s real world, amid difficult times, the BOW program offers a concrete way to teach a man to fish.