> Home

A Letter from Our CEO

Dear Stakeholders,
In 1980, the small enterprise I worked for acquired the Poland Spring® Bottled Water Company and with it, a natural spring source with 400 acres of undeveloped watershed land. About the same time, people were starting to think about living healthier lifestyles and our vision for the business centered on providing bottled water as a healthy alternative to soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. Read more…

Our Commitment

As a packaged beverage company focusing on natural products, our success depends on both the long-term productivity of the waters and lands that support our business and on our relationships with our neighbors, consumers, employees and other stakeholders. Nestlé SA (http://www.nestle.com/) refers to this concept as creating shared value. Simply stated, in order to create value for our shareholders and our company, we need to create value for our customers, employees, communities where we do business and other stakeholders. We strive to embed this concept of “creating shared value” in our own approach to corporate citizenship to grow in a fiscally, environmentally and socially sustainable manner. Please read our Creating Shared Value Report

To support this core belief, we have made six commitments in the areas in which we believe we can provide the greatest value to society. These include:

1. Promoting health and hydration
2. Ensuring water quality and providing clean water when supplies are
interrupted
3. Managing water resources for long-term sustainability
4. Reducing our manufacturing and logistics footprint
5. Developing sustainable packaging solutions
6. Being a good neighbor

These are our aspirations. We have more that we need to do, and will continue to work with our stakeholders to improve our performance in each of these areas. This report is organized to provide more information on our policies, activities and plans for each of these commitments.

Future Goal:
• To ensure internal focus and accountability, we will form in 2009 a Corporate Citizenship Team comprised of employees from different divisions across our organization to guide the future direction of our efforts. The team will report annually to Nestlé Waters’ Executive Team.

Company Profile

In 1976, Nestlé Waters began as a small U.S.–based business that imported one brand, Perrier® Sparkling Natural Mineral Water. The product appealed to Americans seeking an active, healthier lifestyle and the company soon expanded to include other high-quality domestic brands in the U.S. and Canada. Today, Nestlé Waters is the largest bottled water company in North America with over $4.26 billion in sales in 2007. Our product portfolio includes spring, purified, sparkling, drinking, distilled, mineral and flavored waters, which are sold through retail outlets and directly to customers through our Home and Office Delivery (HOD) business.

We are headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, with just over 9,000 employees and 24 factories throughout the U.S. and Canada. While Nestlé Waters is not publicly traded, Nestlé S.A. is listed on SWX Swiss Exchange under the symbol NESN. (Click here to Learn more about our company history.