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Through reports such as this, we hope you can see that a mindset of transparency, improvement
and engagement drives all our actions. The Creating Shared Value Council, and many other
stakeholders, guide our work through their insights and constructive criticism.
We encourage investors to look at company performance both in financial and societal terms, and
evaluate howmanagement integrates them both in corporate governance, strategy and operations.
As such, our report this year includes a section for the investment community.
Most importantly, this report demonstrates our fundamental belief in Creating Shared Value as our
way of delivering a long-term positive impact for shareholders and society, through everything that
we do as a company. CSV is unique in that it is a business strategy that allows us to target activities
where we can optimise the creation of value for our shareholders, as well as for society.
We look forward to your feedback on our commitments and on this report.
Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke joins local government representatives,
industry leaders and coffee farmers for the inauguration of the
Nescafé
Coffee Center in Pu’er, Yunnan, China.
During the CSV Forum in Côte d’Ivoire, Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck-
Letmathe visits the Zambakro experimental farm, an extension of our
R&D Centre in Abidjan, with Wan Ling Martello, Head of Zone Asia,
Oceania and sub-Saharan Africa.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Chairman
Paul Bulcke
Chief Executive Officer
G4-1, Economic performance G4-DMA
Nestlé in society – Creating Shared Value and meeting our commitments 2016
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