Faculty of Business The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Assignment On Marketing Ethics Course code: MM2711 Course Title: Introduction to Marketing Tutorial Group: TUT004 Year: 1 Semester: II (2011-12) Date: 22/2/2012 Submitted By: Submitted To: Name: Chu Wing Sze Name: Dr. Simone Cheng Student ID No: 11222966D Tutor FB Faculty, HKPU Nestlé - Unethical Product Development Nestlé, the world's largest food and nutrition company, has been providing customers with a wide variety of food and beverage categories. Nescafé, Milo, Perrier, and Häagen-Dazs are all popular brands listed in its numerous production categories. However, behind the …show more content…
The sale of coffee creamer with this logo places the health of infants and children at risk in a developing nation that already has extreme levels of malnutrition. The Bear Brand logo is responsible for the deaths and developmental delay of many Lao children mistakenly fed inappropriate products as breast-milk substitute. Even though Nestlé puts the statement “not to be used as a breast milk substitute” on Bear Brand coffee creamer in three languages, English, Lao and Thai, since Loas is a multilingual country with more than 45 languages spoken, parents who cannot read those three languages may misperceive and misuse Bear Brand coffee creamer as infant food by the logo of the product. After analysis of Nestlé’s unethical product development, Nestlé is recommended to implement the following measures: * Instantly prevent the use of misleading logo in any context related to breast‐milk substitute * Design new pictogram to alert illiterate consumers that the product is not breast- milk substitute to avoid further confusion * Make public apologize to show sincerity * Educate the public that sweetened condensed milk cannot be used for feeding infant In conclusion, Nestlé misleading logo, which materially changes the product or impact on the buyer’s purchase decision proved
This case study analyzes the experiences of Courtland Kelley at General Motors (GM). Courtland Kelley a third generation GM worker put his job on the line by pushing the GM managers and executives to fully respond to the safety issues found while working as a safety inspector at the company. Kelley along with his supervisor Bill McAleer first discovered the issues while auditing GM cars at rail yards across the country, a spot check of vehicles before the cars were cleared to be delivered to the dealers. McAleer was taken off the audit as a result, who subsequently sued the company seeking whistle-blower protection. The case was eventually dismissed by a judge in favor of GM. The judgement only increased Kelley’s
Milk: Does the body good. That?s about as much as I knew. As a somewhat, well, I?ll admit it- ignorant consumer- I simply thought that milk in the super market came from, well? a big long row of cows somewhere. Oh, how I was wrong! When we were given an assignment to defetishize something, I realized my ignorance and decided to find out the truth about Dairyland Milk, my milk of choice. This paper is my journey from my small Kitsilano apartment building to the cow that potentially produced my milk in an effort to think of milk not only as an easily available healthy drink, but as an embedded set of geographical and social processes. Much to my astonishment, the production of milk involves much more than
• If I were offered a business deal that violated common business ethics I would first assess the situation and look at the reasons that the offer is unethical. Once I analyzed the situation I would address
Nestle writes an article that is relevant to almost all of her readers because most people shop at supermarkets. Since almost everyone goes grocery shopping, we’re bound to be exposed to the supermarket’s many marketing schemes. Coming from a family that goes grocery shopping at least three times a week, I feel that this article will allow me to avoid some of the supermarket’s sneaky
Dr. Nestle and Dr. Ludwig bring up the issue of misleading labels on the front of many packages. Most claims are not proven scientifically but are still being placed on the front packaging of many products. “Front-of-Package Food Labels Public Health of Propaganda,” brings up how the the legislation passed by Congress throughout the 19th century has impacted the FDA’s ability to regulate misleading claims on food labels.
Chapter 6 of Nestle, Marion, and Michael Pollan. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health is about American food companies using public relations to convince people that their products promote health and are harmless. Breast milk is at war with public relations because the company Nestle wants to promote infant formula as a substitute for breast-feeding. What Nestle is, marketing is not beneficial to the new mothers, but rather for themselves. It’s all competition and making profits for your company. In order for the company to make money off their products, they will have to provide false information to the public that their products are nutritious even if they are not. My class has learned in the beginning of the
This Advertising target parents and children by providing both nutrition and pleasure when in fact the obesity is a problem. The word they use like “Vitamin” make consumer believe that by eating the donuts will give them nutrient. Which this could have an influence to peoples’ behavior by encouraging consumers intake of unhealthy food.
Political factor is important especially in food industry. From here, Nestle has provided food assurance to ensure to the consumer that their products are manufactured and distributed under the safety condition. Besides, Nestle products are always come with the seal of guarantee, it is to prevent consumer purchase any fake products. Therefore, Nestle product quality can be different from other products, and guarantees with full satisfaction of the products all over the world.
Nestle is a Swiss based multinational company which is head quartered in Vevey, Switzerland. There is a long list of the products of Nestle but the most important ones include baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks.
The first and the foremost thing that Nestle should do is to educate the audience about what wrong has been done through television and newspaper advertisements and active communication with the consumers through media. They can’t remain conservative at this point and need to reply to media. Only through this can they salvage their image.
* The task was to get the youth audience to adopt Cadbury Dairy Milk in the sweet eating or " muh meetha karna" moments
Nestlé design is to offer sheltered, wonderful, helpful and nutritious nourishments to enhance wellbeing and prosperity of buyers of any age everywhere throughout the world. To address the issues and cravings of today's and tomorrow's customers, Nestlé is unequivocally dedicated to Research and Development (R&D) to enhance items and grow new sustenance’s with particular medical advantages.
According to me Nestle have only focus on the economic responsibilities and has been concern about the shareholders acceptations than the society. There is a wide space for improvement in the company’s policies towards society and environment.
Since 1866, Nestlé has been dedicated to providing tasty, high quality, safe and nutritious products to consumers. Nestlé Malaysia would continue to do even better correlated to the promise of “Good Food, Good Life”. Nestlé aims to continue true to the Swiss roots while offering the best quality products to delight their consumers. Nestlé Malaysia disseminates only halal products due to the different cultural environment. Their products in the market are all certified by the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) and the relevant Islamic authorities. (Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad,
Nestle, an international recognized multinational corporation is the world’s leading nutrition, Health and Wellness Company. Nestlé’s mission of “Good Food, Good Life” aims at providing customers with the finest quality of nutritional choices within a wide range of food and beverage classifications (NESTLÉ - Vassos Eliades. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.vassoseliades.com/consumer-goods/nestle.html, para. 1). The merger in 1905 between Nestle and the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company created the Nestle we know today. Nestle is one of the world’s largest suppliers of food and nutritional products operating with 461 factories in 83 countries, with 328,000 employees worldwide (Fries, Lorin, Goldberg, Ray, 2012. Nestle: Agricultural Material