Avoiding Nestle help!

Oliver14

MrsW82 wrote: »

Sorry if I'm putting this in the wrong place, but can anyone give me the details of a site that lists the supermarkets that use Nestle products as their "Own brand" products please?

Its all in the name of avoiding evil evil nestle! Thanks!

Hope you're avoiding other multinationals as well. Such as Proctor and Gamble, Coca Cola etc. Most other multinationals ethics are just as bad or even worse than Nestle. I always find this 'Nestle' is the only evil Multinational attitude quite strange.

As faar as I understand it nestle do not produce any own brand supermarket products. That though does not mean any of these products are not produced in the same third party factories as some Nestle (or associated companies) products

Ben84

MrsW82 wrote: »

Sorry if I'm putting this in the wrong place, but can anyone give me the details of a site that lists the supermarkets that use Nestle products as their "Own brand" products please?

Its all in the name of avoiding evil evil nestle! Thanks!

I did contact a few supermarkets about this and they declined to answer who makes their own brand products. I can only assume it is expected to damage brand perception if any were known to produce supermarket brands. I also suspect from this reluctance to state who makes their products that some large brands do make them - although who and what I have no idea.

As far as I can tell, all supermarket brands are made for them by other companies and packaged with their label. Many supermarkets also source from the same suppliers from what I found of the few products whose origins I learnt (Robert McBride make many detergents for private labels) - suggesting the supermarkets too have an incentive to keep it confidential as the public realising they're buying identical products in different packaging would damage brand loyalty too.

I never did come to any conclusions on own brand products made by nestle, but I would add it's worth looking through the lists of well known nestle products thoroughly. I was buying Go-Cat for years after I quit buying the other nestle products, because although close inspection of the box does say it's made by nestle, they use a range of branding strategies and some products are quite subtle about their being made by nestle.

Ben84

Oliver14 wrote: »

Hope you're avoiding other multinationals as well. Such as Proctor and Gamble, Coca Cola etc. Most other multinationals ethics are just as bad or even worse than Nestle. I always find this 'Nestle' is the only evil Multinational attitude quite strange.

As faar as I understand it nestle do not produce any own brand supermarket products. That though does not mean any of these products are not produced in the same third party factories as some Nestle (or associated companies) products

The supermarkets remain a mystery to me, but I do recall the co-op were upfront about who makes their own brand products and identified some pet foods and cereals as being made by nestle a few years ago. So, they certainly do or did make some and I doubt it's just for the co-op group.

As for the justification for a boycott on one specific company, I accept there other dubious companies and some of their products I buy, but the way nestle market the milk made me particularly angry. It's just that some things capture people's attention and influence their opinions more so than others, no different really to the way people often support specific charities rather than all of them.

cjez_2

MrsW82 wrote: »

Sorry if I'm putting this in the wrong place, but can anyone give me the details of a site that lists the supermarkets that use Nestle products as their "Own brand" products please?

Its all in the name of avoiding evil evil nestle! Thanks!

I shop at Aldi and their chocolate is great.
If you buy Nestle's products from stores selling them as "own brand" though won't they still get revenue from that so aren't you just best to use other brands entirely....? Otherwise you're not really avoiding them but just giving them money in another way.

mildred1978

cjez wrote: »

I shop at Aldi and their chocolate is great.
If you buy Nestle's products from stores selling them as "own brand" though won't they still get revenue from that so aren't you just best to use other brands entirely....? Otherwise you're not really avoiding them but just giving them money in another way.

I'm not sure you read that right. the OP doesn't want to buy own brand items if they've been made by Nestl!. Ie, she doesn't want any money going to them!!

penrhyn

The blame for the poor womans ninth pregnancy is more likely to be found in Rome than Geneva.

thenudeone

spunko2010 wrote: »

When you've seen kids dying of hunger or rummaging through raw sewage looking for food, you'll know your little middle-class boycott makes no difference. It's a total waste of your time.

I can't recall suggesting that increasing breastfeeding would solve the problem of third world poverty or massive global inequality.

I just happen to think that stopping some human suffering where we can is a better alternative to yours which seems to be - let them die now; if we stop them dying now they'll only die later of something else anyway.

If my "pointless middle class boycott" stops just one child from dying, is that not worth it?

If that was your son or daughter, what would you choose?

pogofish

Oliver14 wrote: »

As faar as I understand it nestle do not produce any own brand supermarket products. That though does not mean any of these products are not produced in the same third party factories as some Nestle (or associated companies) products

You would be quite wrong.

Nestle own a very significant share of Cereal Partners, who produce own-brands for just about every major store chain.

Then you can go down another level into Nestle's byzantine web of "Strategic Partnerships," where they may not own any of the company concerned but they are still beholden to Nestle in other ways - eg, producing specific products for individual markets or having Nestle/other Nestle partners produce their products in overseas markets.

It gets very very difficult to avoid Nestle's influence altogether.

Then there is the concept of RDA, often considered part of many health approaches - This was almost all Nestle in practical inception.

podcake

Just to put in my two penneth;

you do realise that if you wish to avoid Nestle you also have to avoid these ( some more obvious than others):

Tasters choice
Coffee mate
Nespresso
Nestea
S.Pellegrino
Vittel
Poland Spring
Perrier
Delissio
Hot pockets
After eight
anything labeled 'Wonka'
Dreyer
Carnation

Purina
felix
friskies


Loreal
Vichy
Garnier
Biotherm
The body shop
Maybelline

ralph lauren
Diesel
YSL
Stella McArtney
Giorgio Armani

to name the ones I've heard of....
And then all the ' own brand' stuff of which you speak too!!

I have to say also, I think the competition to Nestle is probably as 'evil' as they are, and with the products above (and own brand versions) you will be hard pushed to find ANYTHING even remotely similar that is not produced by a massive corporate multinational.

podcake

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