Nestle Company Analysis
Economic Development: Geographies of Commodities
This research paper will discuss how the KITKAT chocolates produced by the multinational company NESTLE. This company is the producer of many food products. The main initiative of this company is to introduce products for those babies who are not able to tolerate mother’s milk.
Nestlé was founded in 1866 by Henry Nestle. The headquarters of Nestle company is located in Vevey, Switzerland, and operates factories in more than 80 countries. Nestlé’s chief products are condensed and powdered milk, baby foods, chocolate products, candies, instant coffees and teas, soups, seasonings and condiments, frozen foods, ice cream, and bottled water. The company also produces medicines. …show more content…
Union Busting: The company’s attitudes toward organized labor, especially in the developing world, are notorious in the labor community. (Smith, 2015). Workers who attempt to organize at Nestlé facilities have been threatened with firing and have also been physically intimidated; in India, for example, Nestlé successfully won a court injunction to ban labor organizing activities near its facilities. Ultimately, workers fought and won, but it wasn’t the first time Nestlé had attempted to crack down on organized labor. (Smith, 2015)
4. Palm Oil: Twitter users witnessed a fascinating and bitter fight between Greenpeace and Nestlé in 2010, when the environmental group went after Nestlé for the use of palm oil in its products, particularly Kit Kats. The ingredient is highly controversial due to issues like rainforest clear-cutting and habitat destruction of a number of animals, including orangutans. (Smith, 2015). The roof palm oil harvesting without permits or government oversight. …show more content…
(2018). In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://academic-eb-com.ezproxy.columbiacollege.bc.ca:2443/levels/collegiate/article/Nestl%C3%A9-SA/55337
Hirsch, Sylvia Basler and Morton Gill Clark. Chocolate Manufacturers' Association of the U.S.A. The Story of Chocolate. A Salute to Chocolate. Hawthorn Books, 1968. . Let's Visit a Chocolate Factory. Troll Associates, 1988. http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Chocolate.html Anim-Kwapong, G. J., Frimpong, E. B. (2004) Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Under the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance Programmed Phase 2 (NCCSAP2): Vulnerability of agriculture to climate change- impact of climate change in cocoa production. Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.
England, P. (1993). Forest Protection and the Rights of Cocoa Farmers in Western Ghana. Journal of African Law, 37(2), 164-176.
Slomkowski, K. (2005). Chocolate’s Dark Side. E: The Environmental Magazine, 16(6), 33-342.
Clarke Joe Sandler.(2015).The Guardian international edition
This research paper will discuss how the KITKAT chocolates produced by the multinational company NESTLE. This company is the producer of many food products. The main initiative of this company is to introduce products for those babies who are not able to tolerate mother’s milk.
Nestlé was founded in 1866 by Henry Nestle. The headquarters of Nestle company is located in Vevey, Switzerland, and operates factories in more than 80 countries. Nestlé’s chief products are condensed and powdered milk, baby foods, chocolate products, candies, instant coffees and teas, soups, seasonings and condiments, frozen foods, ice cream, and bottled water. The company also produces medicines. …show more content…
Union Busting: The company’s attitudes toward organized labor, especially in the developing world, are notorious in the labor community. (Smith, 2015). Workers who attempt to organize at Nestlé facilities have been threatened with firing and have also been physically intimidated; in India, for example, Nestlé successfully won a court injunction to ban labor organizing activities near its facilities. Ultimately, workers fought and won, but it wasn’t the first time Nestlé had attempted to crack down on organized labor. (Smith, 2015)
4. Palm Oil: Twitter users witnessed a fascinating and bitter fight between Greenpeace and Nestlé in 2010, when the environmental group went after Nestlé for the use of palm oil in its products, particularly Kit Kats. The ingredient is highly controversial due to issues like rainforest clear-cutting and habitat destruction of a number of animals, including orangutans. (Smith, 2015). The roof palm oil harvesting without permits or government oversight. …show more content…
(2018). In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://academic-eb-com.ezproxy.columbiacollege.bc.ca:2443/levels/collegiate/article/Nestl%C3%A9-SA/55337
Hirsch, Sylvia Basler and Morton Gill Clark. Chocolate Manufacturers' Association of the U.S.A. The Story of Chocolate. A Salute to Chocolate. Hawthorn Books, 1968. . Let's Visit a Chocolate Factory. Troll Associates, 1988. http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Chocolate.html Anim-Kwapong, G. J., Frimpong, E. B. (2004) Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Under the Netherlands Climate Change Studies Assistance Programmed Phase 2 (NCCSAP2): Vulnerability of agriculture to climate change- impact of climate change in cocoa production. Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana.
England, P. (1993). Forest Protection and the Rights of Cocoa Farmers in Western Ghana. Journal of African Law, 37(2), 164-176.
Slomkowski, K. (2005). Chocolate’s Dark Side. E: The Environmental Magazine, 16(6), 33-342.
Clarke Joe Sandler.(2015).The Guardian international edition