Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Nestlé S.A. |
| Acronym: |
Nestlé (SIX: NESN)
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| Legal status: |
Company
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| Website address: |
http://www.nestle.com
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Sections
| Section: |
II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations |
| and more precisely: |
Companies & groups |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Paul Bulcke
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| Position: |
CEO |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Bart Vandewaetere
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| Position: |
Assistant Vice President Relations with EU Institutions |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
55 Avenue Nestlé
Vevey 1800
SWITZERLAND
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| Telephone number: |
(+41) 219242111 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
Representation in Belgium:
Nestlé Zone Europe
Relations with EU Institutions
Birminghamstraat 221
1070 Brussels
Tel. +32 2 529 5512
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Nestlé, with headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé and is today the world's leading nutrition, health and wellness company. Sales for 2011 amounted to CHF 84 bn worldwide (CHF 15,2 bn in Europe). We employ around 328 000 people (29% working in Europe) and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world (159 factories in Europe).
The Nestlé brand portfolio covers practically all food and beverage categories: milk and dairy products, nutrition (infant, healthcare, performance and weight management), ice cream, breakfast cereals, coffee and beverages, culinary products (prepared dishes, cooking aids, sauces etc.), chocolate and confectionery, petcare, bottled water.
The best-known global brands include Nescafé, Nestea, Maggi, Buitoni, Purina, Nestlé Nutrition and of course Nestlé itself. Other brands also sell in many countries – for example, Milo, Nesquik, Nespresso, Lean Cuisine, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nido, Perrier and Vittel. The total number of brands – including local brands – reaches into several thousands.
The Nestlé Group invests in the continuous development and improvement of its products in all categories. R&D investments 2011 was 1,5 billion CHF and 500 million CHF in the new Nutrition, Health and Wellness businesses through the Nestlé Growth Fund. This is more than any other food company – both as percentage of sales and in absolute terms.
The Nestlé Corporate Business Principles (http://www.nestle.com/Resource.axd?Id=70014B84-A4FC-4F82-BFA0-23939DC52E9D) outline the Nestlé way of doing business. They include sections on Infant Health and Nutrition, Human Rights, Child Labour and the Protection of the Environment, as well as a set of Consumer Communication Principles. They include all ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, as well as the International WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk substitutes.
Nestlé is committed to environmental social and economic sustainability through the concept of Creating Shared Value and is rated highly in several sustainability indexes. For more information please visit http://www.creatingsharedvalue.org or http://www.nestle.com/Resource.axd?Id=CA5BDB64-6E13-4CDD-B310-CBF5AB826DA3
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
3
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Complementary information:
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EU Office of 3 FTE plus occasional ad hoc engagement of corporate experts
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
| First name
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Surname
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Start Date |
End Date |
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Bert
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DE MEESTER
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31/01/13
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29/01/14
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Bart
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VANDEWAETERE
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08/01/13
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31/12/13
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Gonçalo Maria
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Salvado Coxito Granado
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04/12/12
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06/08/13
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Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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Food legislation, agriculture, environmental policy (sustainable consumption & production), external trade, corporate social responsibility, competition policy, industrial policy, internal market
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Competition
- Consumer Affairs
- Customs
- Development
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Enterprise
- Environment
- Food Safety
- General and Institutional Affairs
- Information Society
- Internal Market
- Public Health
- Taxation
- Trade
- Transport
- Youth
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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The following list comprises only those organizations that focus on EU policies and European institutions and are relevant for this register:
I. Associations
AIM - European Brands Association
BusinessEurope
Caobisco - Association of chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries of the European Union
Ceereal - European Cereal Breakfast Association
CIUS - Committee of Industrial Users of Sugar
Culinaria Europe
ECF – European Coffee federation
EDA – European Dairy Association
EFBW - European Federation of Bottled Water
Eucolait – European Association of Dairy Trade
Euroglaces – European Ice Cream Association
EUROPEN - European Organization for Packaging and the Environment
Fediaf – European Pet Food Industry
FoodDrinkEurope
IDACE – Association of Food Industries for Particular Nutritional Uses of the EU
UNESDA - Union of European Beverages Associations
WFA – World Federation of Advertisers
II. Think tanks, platforms
AEF – Advertising Education Forum
CEPS - Centre for European Policy Studies
CSR Europe - The European business network for CSR
ERT – European Roundtable of Industrialists
EU Platform for Action on Physical Activity, Diet and Health (through CIAA)
European Food SCP Round Table (through FDE)
High Level Forum for a better functioning food supply chain
RAC – Responsible Advertising and Children
SAI Platform – Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2012
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12/2012
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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200000
€ - 250000
€
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Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
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Procurement:
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0 €
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Grants:
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0 €
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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In order to avoid double counting, aforementioned costs do not include membership fees or payments to the organisations listed above.
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