Global Nestlé News Monthly Roundup - Issue 20 Freitag, 03. Juli 2015 - 14:16

A Nestlé study suggests that increasing dietary intake of potassium to the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended level of at least 3.51 grams per day could help to reduce blood pressure in people not taking medicine for hypertension, and may be a cost-effective means of delaying its onset or mitigating its severity. 
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Nestlé has launched a global Maternity Protection Policy for its employees worldwide that is estimated to be one of the most progressive programmes of its kind in the industry. 
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Nestlé Purina PetCare brand Friskies has launched Pull 'n Play, the world's first tender edible strings for cats, in North America. 
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Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke speaks at 'Global Compact +15: Business as a Force for Good' in New York on 'Climate Action and the Environment' and calls for coordinated action by governments, companies and NGOs to address climate change and safeguard water resources. 
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Nestlé and other members of the Consumer Goods Forum have announced a resolution to halve food waste across their operations by 2025 versus a 2016 baseline and support UN goals on the issue. 
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The Board of Directors has appointed François-Xavier Roger as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nestlé, effective 1st July 2015. 
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José Lopez, Executive Vice President in charge of Operations, will take a well-deserved retirement at the end of September 2015 after a long and distinguished career of 36 years in the Group. 
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"What do you do when plenty of people want to buy your coffee, but you have no way of reaching them?" asks Stefania Diop, Manager for Nestlé Professional in Côte d'Ivoire. The woman behind Nescafé's 'My Own Business' programme tells her story. 
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Through its Cocoa Plan, Nestlé committed to building 40 schools in Côte d'Ivoire between 2012 and 2015, to address child labour on cocoa plantations and make access to education easier for 10,000 children and young people. 
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Nestlé is strengthening its ice cream business in China with aRMB 100 million investment (more than CHF 15 million) in its factories in Tianjin and Guangzhou. 
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Nestlé will reduce salt levels by 10 percent in more than 250 USfrozen pizza and snack products and remove all artificial flavours from these foods by the end of 2015. 
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50,000 young Europeans have found jobs or training opportunities in the first year of the Alliance for YOUth - a group of almost 200 companies mobilised by Nestlé to help young people in Europe find work. 
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