Creating Shared Value at Nestlé: Our approach towards 2030

How we do business

At Nestlé, Creating Shared Value is the foundation of how we operate.  Our portfolio of brands - from food and beverages to medical nutrition to petcare - reflects our purpose: we unlock the power of food and beverages to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come.

In today’s world, companies like Nestlé are expected to lead with integrity and vision. We embrace this role, continuously evolving to meet our consumers’ expectations while delivering value to all our stakeholders.

People, families and pets

Many people want to eat well, but struggle to do so. Life is getting more expensive and more complicated, so for many families eating well is getting harder.  We want to help.
 

Our ambition

We believe that the well-being of people, families, and pets is foundational to a thriving society - and our long-term growth. Our aim is to help our consumers enjoy tasty and balanced diets that meet their nutritional needs and lifestyle goals, in a personalized and affordable way.

As food and nutrition evolves, Nestlé Research and Development provides the scientific foundations for our innovations from food safety to nutrition and health research, translating scientific discoveries into products and services, continually redefining the boundaries of nutrition science and dietary research.

Our impact

Our Nutrition, Health and Wellness strategy is guided by our purpose to unlock the power of food and beverages for everyone, today and for future generations, our strategy starts with the individuals, families and pets we serve. Their expectations are evolving rapidly: people increasingly want diets that are healthy, tasty, affordable and made with familiar, simple ingredients, while also fitting their diverse lifestyles and cultural preferences. To meet these needs, we draw on our global footprint, scientific expertise and broad portfolio. Science is at the core of our approach. We continuously innovate and reformulate our food, beverages and specialized nutrition products so that they taste great, contribute to daily nutritional needs and remain widely affordable.

Setting high nutritional, social and environmental standards, we need to engage with consumers, customers, industry, regulators and civil society.  We need to work together for real impact.

Find out more about nutrition in Nestlé.

In the face of climate change, our actions on sustainability address two main challenges - both reducing our footprint on the environment, while also building resilience in food supply chains and our business. And, we're seeing results, as the ones described below.
 

Our ambition

We aim to lead the transition towards regenerative agriculture as the way of farming for the future.  By using practices that help improve soil health, integrate agroforestry and promote biodiversity, manage water availability and water quality, and use less fossil fuels, these approaches are key to our aim of reaching net zero by 2050 and are showing evidence of supporting farmers in achieving stable yields, even during weather events.

We are also proactively addressing packaging waste management challenges by working on reducing unnecessary packaging, designing better packaging, funding collection systems, and advocating for better regulation, in the pursuit of a circular economy for packaging materials. Our vision is that none of our packaging ends up in landfills or as litter.

We aim for:

Our strategic priorities

We are working to build resilience in our supply chains, while reducing our environmental footprint.

Our impact

Our sustainability strategy is focused on strengthening supply chain resilience by scaling up regenerative agriculture and reducing our GHG emissions. Through regenerative agriculture, we are already seeing evidence of improved and stable crop yields, improved livelihoods, and reduced emissions.

Some of the promising results include 18% higher cocoa yields and 15% higher household net income from cocoa farmers participating in the Nestlé Income accelerator program (pdf, 800Kb). Or through the Nescafé Plan (pdf, 14Mb) we saw 20-40% lower GHG emissions per kilogram of green coffee in 2024 in origins where farm-level data was collected, representing more than 30% of our coffee supply.

People in communities

Supporting the people who work for us, and with us, and the communities where they live is core to our Creating Shared Value strategy.
 

Our ambition

Our work in communities will prioritize meaningful impact, ensuring we are deeply rooted in the communities where we source and manufacture our products, respecting and promoting human rights.

Looking to the future, we are also committed to help build the skills and capabilities young people need to thrive in the new economies we see emerging, focusing on employability, agripreneurship and entrepreneurship.

Our strategic priorities

We are supporting decent livelihoods and access to economic opportunities across our value chain - from respecting and promoting human rights to expanding training and skills development for young people.

Our impact

The challenges ahead are greater than any one company can solve alone. That's why we collaborate with farmers, suppliers, scientists, governments, and industry peers - because transforming food systems takes collective action, bold partnerships, and shared ambition. With strategic initiatives, like the income accelerator program with cocoa farming families, we are already delivering measurable impacts for the farmers, their families and their communities.