Global Nestlé News Monthly Roundup - Issue 12 Montag, 03. November 2014 - 10:26

Nestlé has been ranked number 44 in Boston Consulting Group's 2014 list of the world's most innovative companies, climbing up six places from last year. 
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Nestlé Japan will soon begin using a humanoid robot to sellNescafé machines as part of its ongoing effort to enhance brand engagement with consumers in Nescafé's biggest market. 
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Nestlé Purina has announced a new personalised dog food product in the United States to help support specific nutritional needs, the first time a major pet food producer has moved into the personalised food category for dogs in the U.S. market. 
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Annick Mercenier, Nestlé Research Center scientist, writes about why studying the vast number of microbes present in the human gut may help us to understand the onset of certain diseases. 
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Nestlé has expanded its dairy factory in Jalisco, Mexico, transforming it into the company's first 'zero water' manufacturing site in the world. 
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In the first nine months of 2014, organic growth was 4.5%, composed of 2.3% real internal growth and 2.2% pricing. 
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Nestlé has inaugurated the Dairy Farming Institute in Northeast China, in one of the company's biggest dairy investments that will help modernise Chinese dairy farming practices to enable farmers to meet the country's fast-growing milk demand in a sustainable manner in the years ahead. 
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Nestle.com has been ranked joint second in the Financial Times-Bowen Craggs annual index of the most effective corporate website globally. 
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Nestlé Australia's Allen's brand has halved the size of a popular Australian children's sweet - the snake-shaped Killer Python - to reduce the sugar and calorie intake of the treat. 
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Business must reject short-term thinking and focus instead on long-term value creation for shareholders and society at the same time, said Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke at the company's annual Creating Shared Value (CSV) Forum. 
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Nestlé has announced the renewal of a long-standing collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), committing to contribute CHF 5 million over five years to the organisation. 
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Hans Joehr, Nestlé Head of Agriculture, writes about why the company sometimes takes groups of its executives to a farm to encourage them to think differently about how to drive innovation. 
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On the shores of Lake Geneva, vineyard owners have been harnessing used Nespresso coffee grounds to supplement their soils with nitrogen and to prevent erosion. 
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