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Year 9 Humanities: People or Profits?

To what extent are the practices of Nestle impacting consumers and their communities around the world?

By Maneesh Tekwani
This Year in Humanities we are learning about different business and corporations. We have been thinking about the different companies and their impacts on the surrounding communities, in order to do so have to answer this question, To what extent are the practices of the company impacting consumers and their communities around the world? We had also made a SWOT Analysis on the company we were given to help us identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that face the company. The Company that I have chosen for this Task is Nestle and below you can view my work:

ACTION PLAN:
This is the action plan was made to help us organize the time that has been given to use and make good use of time. Below you can see the Action Plan that was created for this task and it is organized with the action that is going to be done, basic steps to complete the action, the date of when you are testing and specific resources to help complete the action. Note The Specific Resources are organized to in numerical order to represent the Question the Resource helps answer (e.g. What is Nestls Mission Statement can be found on the first resource available on the action plan)
Action Basic Steps Questions that will be Asked/ Information you intend to get from each resource Only If Unsure/Confused Date of Testing (When will it be completed) 28/11/13 Specific Resources (Links, Websites and People) Mr Phillip or My Peers

Clearly Understand the Task that is needed to be completed and Maybe Questions among Peers or Mr Phillip to clear any doubts

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What is needed to be completed for this task? Ask Any Questions to help clear any remaining doubts with Mr Phillip and/or Peers

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Find Basic Information on the company: mission statement values, beliefs, or philosophy stakeholders the image/brand the company is promoting

Research Questions available on the right hand side? Write all the necessary information to help answer the question on the Note/Informati on Page Entitled the Information found under the questions

1. What is Nestls Mission Statement? 2. What values, beliefs, or philosophy does the Nestles follow? 3. Who are the Stakeholders?

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http://www .nestle.co.z a/aboutus/ missionvisio n http://www .nestle.co.z a/aboutus/ missionvisio n http://ww w.nestle.c om/csv/n estle/stak eholder-

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given on the right hand side in order to complete the work in an orderly fashion. Promoting?

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engageme nt
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http://ww w.socialfu nds.com/s hared/rep orts/1210 104897_N estle_200 7_Creatin g_Shared _Value_R eport.pdf

Find the Information on the companys process: the products how does it sell the good or service to consumers

Research Questions available on the right hand side? Write all the necessary information to help answer the question on the Note/Informati on Page Entitled the Information

1. What Types of Products that are provided by the company?

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2. How does it sell the good or service to consumers?

1. http://www .nestle.com /brands 2. http://www .nestle.com /csv/enviro nmentalsustainabilit y/transport distribution

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found under the questions given on the right hand side in order to complete the work in an orderly fashion.

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Find out Information on any impacts of the company you have found: People or Environment

Research Questions available on the right hand side? Write all the necessary information to help answer the question on the Note/Informati on Page Entitled the Information found under the questions given on the right hand side in order to complete the work in an orderly fashion.

1. Is there any evidence of conditions for the companys workforce? 2. Does the company actively invest in the local communities in which it operates worldwide? 3. How does the product or service influence the health and wellbeing of the consumers? 4. Are there any

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1. http://ww w.corporat ewatch.or g.uk/?lid= 240

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3. http://www .nestle.com /assetlibrary/doc uments/libr ary/docum ents/peopl e/peopledevelopme nt-reviewen.pdf

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ethical questions, such as the abuse of human rights or the rights of animals? 5. What impacts do the companys operations have on the environment? 6. Think about extracting raw materials, the process of production, the distribution to consumers, and/or disposing of the product

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4. http://www .nestlefamily.com/ ourcompany/e nglish/asset s/download s/TheWorld-ofNestle.pdf 5. http://ww

w.corporat ewatch.or g.uk/?lid= 240

6. http://www .corporate watch.org.u k/?lid=240 7. http://ww

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Research Questions available on the right hand side? Write all the necessary information to help answer the question on the Note/Informati on Page Entitled the Information found under the questions given on the right hand side in order to complete the work in an orderly fashion. Read Through the Action Plan and make sure

1. Has the company been in the news recently? 2. What has been published in or for the media (i.e. press releases, news articles, petitions, campaigns)?

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Find out Information in the News: Recent Products of the Company in the News Types of Products

Complete My Action Plan With All the Sections Organized with Questions, Dates and Specific Links (Only If Needed and Necessary)

1. Do you think you have written a

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it has everything needed in Checklist Make sure the Action is well organized and easily followed Make a question to help you understand your progress and whether you are successful. Think of Few Question to ask Mr. Phillip. Ask the Questions and Use the Feedback as a guidance of Improvements Write all the Necessary Notes/ Information suitable Action Plan that could be followed?

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1. Does it Look Organized and Well Written? 2. Would you prefer to Read this?

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Mr Phillip

Check Out My Action Plan with Mr. Phillip and Ask Few Questions Related to my Action Plan and receive Feedback and Edit/Change Few Aspects (Only if Needed)

Complete the Rest of My Work Notes/Information and Use the C.R.A.P for each website been used.

1. Are there any grammatical Errors in your Work?

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Check For Grammatical Errors consisted in the text and attempt to fix them Check if the work is Relevant to the Topic and attempt to fix them. Use Information No Question Required For This Stage Found out to help think of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that Nestle face. Make a SWOT Analysis Table demonstrating (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) of Nestle. 05/12/13 2. Is it Work Completed Relevant to Topic?

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All the Links/Resources Used During the Assessment

Complete SWOT Analysis (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) for Nestle.

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Read Through a Final/Last Time and make essential changes to make the final work more better and successful Check For Any Grammatical Errors in the Text and attempt to complete them Go Scribd and Upload this Document and Entitle the work HUM- People or ProfitsSWOT Analysis Receive the Embed Code and Paste on the My Blog.

No Needed For a Question at this stage

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http://blogs.nist.ac. th/18maneesht/

http://www.scrib d.com

Read through the work and tinker few parts and Upload to my Blog

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SWOT ANALYSIS TABLE

Below you can view my SWOT Analysis Table, which was made to organize and identify all the Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities and Threat that face Nestle:

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

Location Of Factor Internal Factors Favourable Strength Type of Factor Unfavourable Weakness Increasing requests of product recalls Ability to influence brand (Nestle) name hindering brand fairness to generate more sales for the company. Ability to customize products to local market conditions Significant focus on research and development capabilities Inability to provide consistent quality in food products Weak execution of CSR

External Factors

Opportunities

Threats

Increasing a higher demand for healthier food products produced by Nestle. Acquiring start-ups focusing on producing well-being products for Nestle

Food contaminated Society Higher Trend towards healthy eating/foods.

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Establishing new company to engage in Nestle.

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The Growing Number of Supermarkets and other retailers are introducing their own label products that cost considerably less and can easily compete with Nestls product portfolio. Increasing of raw food prices in Nestle.

COLLECTING & RECORDING INFORMATION

Below you can view all the information/notes collected during this assessment ,this was made to show the methods I have used to collect and record appropriate, varied, and relevant information to Nestle:
1. What is Nestle Mission Statement? Nestl is....the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night. Links/Resources: http://www.nestle.co.za/aboutus/missionvision 2. What values, beliefs, or philosophy does the Nestle follow? The Vision and Values Nestle Follows: To be a leading, competitive, Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company delivering improved shareholder value by being a preferred corporate citizen preferred employer preferred supplier selling preferred products. Links/Resources: http://www.nestle.co.za/aboutus/missionvision

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3. Who are the Stakeholders?

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Global Business Leaders NGOs Academics International organisations Government officials Experts from social and environmental areas relevant to Nestle Farmers Traders Key Processors

Links/Resources: http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/library/documents/corporate_social_responsibility/2011-csv-report.pdf 4. What Image/ Brand is the Company helping to Promoting? Nestl is helping promote that Nestl is the worlds leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Link/Resources: http://www.socialfunds.com/shared/reports/1210104897_Nestle_2007_Creating_Shared_Value_Report.pdf

5. What Types of Products that are provided by the company? Please Click on the Categories to View the Type of Products for Each Category:

Pet care Sport nutrition Weight management Baby foods Bottled water Cereals Chocolate & confectionery

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Coffee Culinary, chilled & frozen food Dairy Drinks Food service Healthcare nutrition Ice cream

Links and Resources: http://www.nestle.com/brands

6. How does it sell the good or service to consumers? Nestle delivers their goods/products via network of rail roads and sea to increasing urban population. Almost, daily more tones 125,000 tonnes are being transported to customers from their factories and distribute centres helping provide products in highest quality and on time from the factory to the consumer. Links/ Resources: http://www.nestle.com/csv/environmental-sustainability/transport-distribution Is there any evidence of conditions for the companys workforce? If Yes What? There is evidence that the companys workforce exploiting their famers. In 2001, Nestle had been faced with a critism for buying cocoa from the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which could have been produced using child slaves. According to an investigation by the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children in Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo are being purchased from their destitute parents and shipped to the Ivory Coast, to be sold as slaves to cocoa farms. The Ivory Coast is the biggest producer of cocoa globally. These children ages ranging in from 12 to14 years (and some are younger) were being forced to do hard physical labour from 80 to 100 hours a week, paid nothing, barely fed and mistreated regularly. In the widespread disturbance caused by the investigations, Nestl expressed its 'concerns' over the use of child labour but could not confirm that none of its chocolate was touched by slaves. Links/Sources: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=240 7. Does the company actively invest in the local communities in which it operates worldwide?

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There was a factory which had been opened in 1990 in China buys more than 200 000 tonnes of fresh milk locally each year. Though there are somewhat similar projects are in operation in India, Pakistan and Indonesia and have a beneficial influence on the general level of skills and commercial attentiveness in the local communities. Links/Resources: http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/library/documents/people/people-development-review-en.pdf 8. How does the product or service influence the health and well-being of the consumers? Nestle Relates it to history and connects it with Henri Nestls biggest concern, which was health and safety for the society and say the Nestle have kept that as its major concerns for 150 years. Links/Resources: http://www.nestle-family.com/our-company/english/assets/downloads/The-World-of-Nestle.pdf 9. Are there any ethical questions, such as the abuse of human rights or the rights of animals? There is evidence that the companys workforce exploiting their famers. In 2001, Nestle had been faced with a critism for buying cocoa from the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which could have been produced using child slaves. According to an investigation by the BBC, hundreds of thousands of children in Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo are being purchased from their destitute parents and shipped to the Ivory Coast, to be sold as slaves to cocoa farms. The Ivory Coast is the biggest producer of cocoa globally. These children ages ranging in from 12 to14 years (and some are younger) were being forced to do hard physical labour from 80 to 100 hours a week, paid nothing, barely fed and mistreated regularly. In the widespread disturbance caused by the investigations, Nestl expressed its 'concerns' over the use of child labour but could not confirm that none of its chocolate was touched by slaves. Links/Sources: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=240 10. What impacts do the companys operations have on the environment? Nestl has recently been visible regarding its part in persuading the British government not to vaccinate livestock during the Foot and Mouth disease crisis. The then Chief Executive of Nestl UK, Peter Blackburn, who is also president of the Food and Drink Federation, petitioned the government, which was apparently about to introduce a vaccination programme, and, along with the National Farmers' Union, who also opposed vaccination, managed to force a complete turnaround in policy. This is thought to be because Nestl's profits would be damaged by the loss of exports of powdered milk. It would probably have meant the closure of Nestl's factory in Dalston, Cumbria, which employs 500 people and is a major producer of powdered milk to developing countries.

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Links/Resources: http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=240 11. Think about extracting raw materials, the process of production, the distribution to consumers, and/or disposing of the product The Packaging Phase Includes Several Steps Provided Below: Firstly, the extraction of raw materials which are necessary for producing packaging materials: Primary packaging and Secondary packaging Transforming of raw materials into various forms of primary and secondary packaging

Secondly, supplying the packaging to Nestl factories: Finished packaging of Product PET resin PET preforms for producing product

Third Stage end-of-life includes: Collection Sorting Recycling

Fourth Stages Product Manufacturing (The manufacturing phase covers the entire production process at the factory level): Transformation of packaging materials into product/products: Product creation (pumping, storage, treatments (if any), filling); Conditioning with secondary packaging and storage until finished products are transported

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Fifth Stage- Distribution (Distribution covers both the transport and consumer phases) -This includes:

Transport from the Nestl factory to customers, storage at wholesalers and/ or point of sale (on-shelf); purchase by the consumer; transport from retail to the consumers destination, Cooling devices (if any) for Home and Office delivery or home storage; Consumption of the product; Washing of drinking receptacle (if any) and consumer disposal of the empty packaging.

Links/Resources: http://www.nestle-waters.com/environment/environmental-performance/bottled-water-life-cycle

12. Has the company been in the news recently? Why? With the market capitalisation touching Rs422 billion for the first time, Nestle Foods Pakistan became the second largest listed company on the Karachi bourse in November, thanks to the recent gains in its stock price that surged 32% in the month. Links/Resources: http://tribune.com.pk/story/640261/karachi-bourse-nestle-becomes-second-largest-company-as-stock-rallies/

13. What has been published in or for the media (i.e. press releases, news articles, petitions, campaigns A new article states that Nestle becomes second largest company as stock rallies in Karachi, Links/Resources: http://tribune.com.pk/story/640261/karachi-bourse-nestle-becomes-second-largest-company-as-stock-rallies/

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ANALYZING NESTLES IMPACT ON CONSUMERS:

Below you can view my Response to this assessment of the question which was, To what extent are the practices of the Nestle impacting consumers
and their communities around the world? With more than 450 factories operating in 86 countries Nestle is world wildly known as the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Their mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to providing consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night. Nestle is helping promote the worlds leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Nestls Vision seeks in order, to be a leading and competitive, Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company it is needed to deliver improved shareholder value by being a preferred corporate citizen preferred employer preferred supplier selling preferred products. Nestle is very well known company for selling products from food to beverages. Though, this company has several political impacts such as, factory construction, land acquisitions (for factories), closure of factories, safety incidents/industrial accidents, Major employer within region/community, contracted service providers, social unrest, water use, Pollution (Smells and noise from factories) and Health and awareness of the company. Theses stated above represent that the companys (Nestles) Practices are somewhat harmful towards that society and are impacting consumers in a bad way.

C.R.A.P TEST OF THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES

Below you can view all the C.R.A.P Test that I had completed in order to assess each website used in the Collecting and Recording Stage and deciding the usefulness of each source used:

Current, Reliability, Authority and Purpose (C.R.A.P)

Specific Links Used Criterion for C.R.A.P Test for Websites Current Reliability
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Authority
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Purpose
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1. How recent is the information? 2. How recently has the website been
updated?

What kind of information is included in the resource?

Who is the creator or author?

Is this fact or opinion? Is the creator/author trying to sell you something?

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Is it biased?

3. Is it current enough for your topic?

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Is content of the resource primarily opinion? Is it balanced?

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Who is the published or sponsor?

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Are they reputable? What is the publishers interest (if any) in this information?

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Does the creator provide references or sources for data or quotations?

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Are there advertisements on the website?

http://www.nestle.c om
(Note: This Website is Used Several Times for in the in whole assessment- Used 5 times)

For This Website it doesnt describe/show any particular dates in which this websites has been updated or modified. Though, I feel it is irrelevant to attach a date/time on this website because Nestle has been having the same Mission Statement since the start of the Nestle Company.

I feel the information on this website is somewhat relevant to want I intend to research/find out. This is because it clearly states Nestles Mission Statement. I feel that the content available on this website is opinionated but, I feel it may need to be opinionated as it Nestle is sharing their Mission Statement. If you examine the website you will find that there is

The Author/Creator of this Website is Nestle making it trustworthy information and somewhat believable. The Publisher is the Nestle make them somewhat reputable. The Publisher has interest Into this information as it is the Nestle Group/Foundation and they are interested into their business. There

The Information is somewhat related to facts because it shares what the truth is as it is the real Nestle website. The author isnt trying to particular sell you anything. I feel the information received for this website wouldnt be biased as the information is received from a trustworthy source which is the Nestle Website.

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much reference available. Though, I feel there is no need for the website to have a reference because it is Nestle Mission Statement is only available on a document by Nestle arent several advertisements on this website as it is the original nestle page and they feel that it their website shouldnt have ads on the website (Only Unless they are relevant to the Nestle Foundation) I feel that this website is somewhat reliable because it is of News Company.

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http://tribune.com.p k/story/640261/kara chi-bourse-nestlebecomes-secondlargest-company-asstock-rallies/

The Information Provide on this website is quite recent, which is on the 3rd of December. The information Provided isnt updated yet but, may depending on the situation. I feel that date is current enough for this topic.

I feel that this website is somewhat reliable because it is of News Company.

It purpose is to share you news about different things going on in the world.

EVALUATION OF PROCESS:
Below you can view my evaluation of the process that I have followed for this assessment; this was made to help provide a detailed evaluation of the research process and its results:
The Checklist that was given to us help us to complete our assessment with ease by understanding what is need to be accomplish to do successful in this task. To start the task, I firstly created a well-organized Action Plan (In a table) to help me understand what is needed to be completed in the time I was given and help me make good use of the time. Once that Stage/Step of the Process was completed I had inserted/documented all the information received and written it in my own words on the Information/Notes Page organized with information below the question been given to find out more about. The Third Step that was needed to be completed was the step in which we all needed to do a C.R.A.P Test on all on the Links available to identify the whether we did successful in choosing sources for the assessment. After that we were needed to answer the research question for this task, To what extent are the practices of Nestle impacting consumers and their communities around the world? We did this to understand basically help identify the

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benefits/disadvantages of the company and the impact the company has on the society around the world. During this whole process, we were needed toil out the checklist to help us check if we have successfully met the criterion on the assessment. After evaluating the Websites by the C.R.A.P (Current, Reliable, Author, Purpose), Re that I had used for this assessment I found that I was pretty successful in finding useful information as most of the websites that I had used were applicable sources. I found that the sources that I used were applicable and therefore were successful/helpful websites. This is because the met the most of the criterion because it was recent information that had been updated when needed and necessary, the information had several other websites referred, in order to make the facts found unbiased and reliable to use. The Author of the Work provided on the website was pretty well-known and therefore was providing trustworthy information. The Purpose of this wasnt to sell anything but was to help teach/educate you about the Nestle. I feel that in this assessment there were few strengths and weaknesses in the process of this assessment. I feel that the strengths that I had found during this process which were the CRAP test and the paragraphs, this is because the CRAP test was quite simple as all that was needed to be accomplished was to comment on the Currency, Reliability, Authority, Purpose of the sources used. I also felt that it was quite simple to write the two paragraph because I already knew what was needed to be written in the paragraphs and did so. Though there were few outlined strengths of this assessment there were few weaknesses. Few major weaknesses that were found in my process of this assessment were the SWOT Analysis and collecting information. Firstly, I felt that the SWOT Analysis for this assessment was a little complicated because I had to suggest few strengths, weakness, and opportunities and threats that Nestle face which was a little hard and was a bummer. Secondly, I felt that I wasnt as successful in collecting my information as I am not as great in using the Google search engine making the information I find somewhat irrelevant towards the topic. If I
were to come across this assessment once more, I would try to ask a little bit more help from Mr Phillip for the SWOT Analysis as he is an expert on the area and would try to learn how to use Google effectively so, that I would be able to find relevant results towards my topic.

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