About Nestlé

The Nescafé Plan

As the world’s number one coffee brand Nestlé believes that sustainable coffee production has a major role to play in bringing social and economic benefits to thousands of communities around the world and is essential for the continued supply of high quality coffee.

In response, Nestlé has launched the Nescafé Plan, a global initiative which aims to help guarantee a long term supply of quality coffee produced with a lower environmental impact.

The plan is being implemented with the support of Rainforest Alliance, other partners from the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and the 4C Association (Common Code for the Coffee Community Association).

Nestlé is investing CHF 500 million in coffee projects over the next ten years. This includes CHF 350 million for the NESCAFÉ Plan and CHF 150 million for Nespresso.

The NESCAFÉ Plan outlines Nestlé’s commitments in three key areas of action – coffee farming, coffee production and consumption – and aims to create value right across the coffee supply, from farmers to consumers.

For more information go to www.nescafe.com/sustainability

Our commitment to sustainable Palm Oil

Nestlé views the destruction of tropical rainforests and peatlands as one of the most serious environmental issues facing us today. At the recent Nestlé Annual General Meeting our Chairman Peter Brabeck–Letmathe reinforced this position and repeated our support for a moratorium on the destruction of rainforests.

With regards to our pledge to achieve sustainable palm oil by 2015, we are making progress on certified palm oil and palm oil certificates even more rapidly, with 18% of our purchases covered in 2010, and we expect to reach 50% by the end of 2011.

As an important step on that journey, a number of Nestlé markets, including Nestlé UK, have already purchased Green Palm certificates, the certificate trading programme designed to help suppliers tackle the environmental and social problems created by the production of palm oil.

Please click here to view our latest global statement detailing the concrete actions we are taking to make our commitment to sustainable palm oil a reality.

Have a break, Have a Fairtrade Kit Kat

Nestlé strengthens its commitment to sustainable cocoa sourcing

From January 2010, Kit Kat, Nestlé’s leading confectionery brand and the UK’s favourite chocolate biscuit bar, will be certified by Fairtrade in the UK and Ireland. This announcement follows on from the October launch of Nestlé’s global Cocoa Plan which represents a £65 million investment over the next ten years in programmes to address the economic, social and environmental issues facing cocoa farming communities. Fairtrade certification of Kit Kat will facilitate long term direct commitments to cocoa co–operatives including additional payments for the farmers to invest in community or business development projects of their own choice, such as improving healthcare and schools. The first Kit Kats to carry the FAIRTRADE Mark in the UK and Ireland will be the four–finger version from January 2010.

To find out more click here.

Abidjan Research & Development Center opening

Nestlé inaugurated a new R&D centre in Abidjan, the first Nestlé R&D centre of its kind in Africa. Click here for more information.

For a business to be successful in the long term, it must create value not only for its shareholders but also for society. At Nestlé we recognize that our success means creating value for everyone we touch – from the farmers who supply our products, to our employees, to our consumers and the communities where we operate.

We call this commitment Creating Shared Value; and we focus our efforts in three key areas: nutrition, water and rural development. Those areas are core to our company’s business strategy and essential to creating a better and healthier world in the 21st century.

We invite you to learn more about Creating Shared Value by joining a global webcast of the first Annual Forum on Creating Shared Value at the end of April 2009. Its objective is to help advance solutions to the serious problems facing us in water, food, and nutrition security and will include some of the world’s leading experts in business strategy, nutrition, water, and rural development.

Visit www.nestle.com to find out more.