Nestlé - Good Food Good Life?
Nestlé is the biggest food company in
the world. It consists of many different trade marks that produce all
different kinds of food, who all keep their own names and don't
reveal that they are a part of Nestlé.
Nestlé employs about 280 000 people
all over the world and has a yearly income of about USD 119 billion.
Only in Central West Africa they earn about UDS one billion a year.12
And Nestlé keeps extending it's
influence -both: in the parts of the world and on the foodmarket by
producing more and more goods. By doing so they cleverly eliminate
any kind of concurrence. As a monopole they have influence on the
politics and also on the prices. If one company becomes a monopole
there is nothing that regulates the market and the prices, which has
an extreme impact on peoples' lives. Especially on the poor.
People also become dependent on these
big companies like Nestlé because of the high number of jobs they
offer and control. They also bring a lot of money to each country
they operate in because they pay fees and taxes, they build
infrastructure and take part in their economic growth.
But apart from the bones of contention
that come along with big companies, Nestlé does not even pay
attention to human rights adequatly.
Again and again they attract attantion
because of problems like
abusive childlabour on their cocoa plantations or exploiting the free
acces to water. They tap public springs for their expensively sold
bottle water. Those people who earlier had free access to water now
have to buy the same water from Nestlé. And it also causes huge
problems for the local farmers who now don't have enough water
anymore to grow their plants.3
Nestlé knows
about that reputation and finally reacts.
The first thing
that pops up if you enter the Nestlé website is the information that
Nestlé now commits itself to a partnership with FLA (Fair Labour
Association).
The FLA states
about that:
“Working with
the FLA will help Nestlé and other stakeholders in West Africa to
protect children in the cocoa supply chain, but eliminating child
labor will take an enormous commitment from Nestlé and other
companies sourcing from the region. This project is a step in the
right direction, but the real test will be in whether issues
uncovered in the investigation are addressed promptly and in a
lasting manner.“4
This example shows
that their reputation is the most important criteria for selling.
Thus creating awareness on what happens is our job. As soon as a
company looses it's good reputation it will start acting into the
right direction.
1Nestlé
Website: http://www.nestle.com/AboutUs/Pages/AboutUs.aspx
2Nestlé
Website CWA:
http://www.nestle-cwa.com/en/aboutus/Pages/aboutus.aspx
3Greenpeace
magazine Germany:
http://www.greenpeace-magazin.de/index.php?id=2666&no_cache=1&sword_list%5B%5D=nestl%C3%A9
4
FLA Website:
http://www.fairlabor.org/fla/Public/pub/Images_XFile/R506/FLA_Nestle_Advisory_Nov28.pdf
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