Nestle Faces Investor Challenge Over Healthy Food Targets
- Swiss group asked to lift proportion of nutritious food sales
- Company says the coalition is targeting the wrong business
Pressure is growing on food companies to make their range of products healthier.
Photographer: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg
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Nestle SA is facing a formal demand from some shareholders, including Legal & General Investment Management, to significantly improve the amount of healthy food the Swiss consumer group sells.
A coalition of investors, led by ShareAction, has filed a resolution asking the maker of Kit Kat chocolate bars to set an internationally accepted target to increase the proportion of sales of healthier foods, at a time of surging ill health related to poor nutrition worldwide.