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  This week is Living Wage Week, an annual celebration which recognises the leadership shown by Living Wage employers across the UK.   In June 2014, Nestlé became the first major manufacturer in the UK to gain accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation by making a voluntary commitment to pay the Living Wage Foundation Living Wage.  This is a higher commitment and has a wider remit than the UK Government’s new National Living Wage which is a legal requirement.  In November 2014, the company took a step further and became a Principal Partner of the Living Wage Foundation.  

  Nestlé has welcomed the publication of a new report which highlights the enormous potential in the food and drink industry for growth and helping to rebalance Britain’s economy. The report, Appetite for Global Success, published by the think tank ResPublica, and sponsored by Nestlé UK, emphasises the huge contribution that food and drink manufacturing makes to the British economy. It calls on the Government to put food and drink – the largest sector of UK manufacturing – at the heart of industrial strategy.

  The latest event as part of Nestlé and First Milk’s Next Generation Dairy Leaders Programme took six young farmers to a range of organisations and the Houses of Parliament to discuss the politics of agri-food and the future of the dairy industry. Six young farmers from Scotland and Cumbria visited the NFU (National Farmers Union) offices and met representatives from the NFU and HSBC Bank to discuss the main challenges facing the sector and opportunities the changing dairy landscape could provide. The next day the farmers toured the Houses of Parliament and met with George Eustice, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to discuss how the British agricultural sector could look after Brexit. Each farmer had some challenging questions for the Minister off the back of informative sessions the previous day.

Nestlé Waters announced today that it would strengthen its collaboration with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to certify 20 factories by 2020.

Nestlé UK has pledged to include more vegetables in on-pack and online meal recommendations for their Maggi dry recipe mix range as part of the Peas Please initiative.

 The Toffee Deluxe is making a triumphant return to Nestlé’s Quality Street assortment after a 12 month absence. Nestlé UK and Ireland

  It’s the most wonderful time of the year and, as Christmas approaches, we caught up with Quality Street’s Senior Brand Manager, Jon Smith, for a behind the scenes look at what it’s like to be working on the first signs of Christmas all year round.

  Nestlé UK and Ireland is introducing two exciting new products to the KITKAT family: KITKAT Bites White Chocolate and KITKAT Chunky White. Following the success of KITKAT Bites and KITKAT Bites Peanut Butter, the range has now been expanded to include a white chocolate variant. Meanwhile, KITKAT Chunky White follows hot on the heels of the brand new KITKAT Chunky New York Cheesecake which was unveiled last month. Both of the new white chocolate products are available exclusively in TESCO.

Giant tubes of Orange Smarties are Nestlé’s offering to the UK this Christmas after overwhelming demand sees them introduced for 2017.

Move over Lord Sugar! Nestlé Ireland staff competed in a fierce Shop Wars competition in a drive to raise money for Down Syndrome Ireland (DSI). Two teams took over and ran two DSI charity shops in Dublin for one day on Friday 13th October with the team raising the most money in their shop crowned the winner. The charity shop challenge involved two DSI shops, one in the heart of Dublin at the historic GPO (General Post Office) and the other in the Dublin suburb, Kimmage.  Teams devised lots of activity to attract customers including raffles, sweet treats and new stock.