Nestle international Company Report

NESTLE INTERNATIONAL

Introduction

Nestlé is an international corporation that produces a variety of products including food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals that amount to over 8,000 in all (Tomlinson 2007). The company was founded in 1867 in Vevey, Switzerland and has facilities worldwide. In fact, Nestlé is the world's largest food company with 479 factories and over 200,000 employees worldwide. Nestlé is committed to providing people around the world with the best food and increasing their quality of life. The current CEO of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck, has been with the company since 1968.

The primary corporate objective of the Nestlé Group is to create values for the internal and external market environments that will be sustainable in the long-term. The 'environmental management' responsibility adopted by Nestlé incorporates an integrated approach through the supply chain process for preserving the environment (i.e. minimizing waste products, raw materials produced from sustainable methods, etc.), a focus on the preservation of water resources, and systematic management that describes targets and performance measures for the future.

Nestle, for instance, is poised to double its production of Ice Mountain bottled water. The company, which employs 250 at its Stanwood facility, is considering building a second Ice Mountain bottling plant in Evart or at a site in Indiana. And when it comes to bottled water, Nestle is the biggest fish in the pond. Based in Switzerland, Nestle is the world's 53rd biggest corporation and the world's largest producer of food and bottled water, according to industry data.

Nestle controls about one-third of the global bottled water market, according to industry data. The company produces 75 different lables of bottled water at 103 factories in 36 countries, according to company data. Nestle's Ice Mountain facility is by far the largest water bottler in Michigan, according to state data. Michigan has 44 licensed water bottlers, but only three pumped more than 1 million gallons of water in 2006.

Its Stanwood plant bottled 226 million gallons of groundwater last year. That dwarfed the 54 million gallons of groundwater bottled by Absopure, Michigan's second-largest water bottler. The only other firm that bottled more than 1 million gallons of Michigan water last year was Shay, which bottled 1.1 million gallons, according to state data.

Nestle has never pumped spring water near a Michigan trout stream. The company currently pumps spring water from wells in rural Mecosta County that flow into a warm water stream. Nestle also buys spring water from the city of Evart. Which would explain why Evert has a large sign “ We Love Ice Mountain”

Allowing Nestle to pump water near the White River would make the natural springs that feed all trout streams in Michigan fair game for water bottlers, said Mark Luttenton, a Grand Valley State University biology professor and river expert.

"If the state is willing to compromise our cold-water rivers, particularly systems like the White and Pere Marquette rivers, I don't see any recourse the state has to prevent the permitting of water wells anywhere else in the state," ...