<div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Baby Milk Action</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikebrady@babymilkaction.org">mikebrady@babymilkaction.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">I recently contacted everyone who had emailed Nestlé over its marketing of baby milks to see if you had received a reply. Nobody had, even though Nestlé publicly invites questions about its business practices.</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Given the lack of response, I did two things:<span> </span></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">* I wrote to Nestlé, and</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">* I went to Nestlé's shareholder meeting in Switzerland on 10 April to question Nestlé's Chairman in front of more than 2,700 shareholders.</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Nestlé was expecting me at the shareholder meeting and replied to my letter a few days before. Their Public Affairs Manager said, 'Please be advised that we have a policy of not responding to mass emails.'</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">If you are disappointed that Nestlé thinks you do not deserve a reply, then you could try contacting it again. See our email Nestlé page for details on how to do so:<span> </span></font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://info.babymilkaction.org/emailnestle" target="_blank">http://info.babymilkaction.org/emailnestle</a></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">I told the shareholders about ongoing concerns with Nestlé's baby food marketing practices and highlighted that we are not alone in calling Nestlé to change its policies and practices.<span> </span></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">I was able to expose that Nestlé had misled shareholders in its reports by downplaying the amount of criticism it attracts. Even if shareholders are not concerned about how Nestlé does business, they should be concerned about its misleading reports.</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">In a telling moment, the Chief Executive of Nestlé Health Science admitted that 90% of the violations of international marketing standards we and our colleagues report are permitted by Nestlé's own policies - which are much weaker than they should be.</font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">But the Chairman refused to accept Nestlé should bring its policies into line - so the boycott remains essential to keep up the pressure. For further details see my blog at:</font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://info.babymilkaction.org/news/campaignblog220414" target="_blank">http://info.babymilkaction.org/news/campaignblog220414</a></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">At the same time we continue to work with our partners around the world to bring in laws that hold it to account (over 70 countries now have laws in place).<span> </span></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">We will continue to expose Nestlé malpractice to shareholders and more widely.<span> </span></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">You can support this work by becoming a member of Baby Milk Action and by spreading the word.<span> </span></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">For example, use our Nestlé-Free Zone stickers to declare that Nestlé is not welcome at your home or where you work. See:</font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/stickers.html" target="_blank">http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/stickers.html</a></font><br>
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<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Mike Brady </font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Campaigns and Networking Coordinator </font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Baby Milk Action </font><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Tel: 01223 464420 </font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Fax: 01223 464417 </font><font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font><br>
<font style="font:12.0px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Baby Milk Action, 34 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QY </font><br>
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