Nestle Corporate Case Study

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“To what extent does Nestle India consider the importance corporate social responsibility in assuring profit for the company?”

Contents
Abstract………………………………………………………………………..3

Introduction……………………………………………………………………4 Nestle India…………………………………………………………………4 What is Corporate Social Responsibility? …………………………5
Significance of the Topic…………………………………………………6

Methodology……………………………………………………………………..7
Sources………………………………………………………………………...7
Limitations…………………………………………………………………7-8
Business tools used……………………………………………………………8

Main Findings, analysis and discussion………………………………………9
SWOT Analysis…………………………………………………………9
PESTL Analysis……………………………………………………………14

Conclusion……………………………………………………………………. 18

"Corporate social responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business"3
Niall Fitzerald, Former CEO, Unilever

Despite the harmful effects Nestle India has on the community, not everyone is familiar with the wrong doing and the failure of balancing the Corporate Social Responsibility alongside with profit. People are going to find out the conspiracy of the company in the end. Mike Clasper, President of Business Development says, "People are going to want, and be able, to find out about the citizenship of a brand, whether it is doing the right things socially, economically and environmentally."3
Significance of the Topic
I need to research about the corporate social responsibility of Nestle India and what the government is doing to evaluate the extent to stop or allow the company from doing illegal actions. This is crucial because Nestle India is one the the biggest food production companies that provides supply for huge population, but it fails to meet the standard and uses child labor to increase their profit. For this reason, the research question is as