Ethical consumerism article in The Guardian

There is an article on The Guardian website today by Cath Elliott about ethical consumerism, which refers to the Nestlé boycott. You can fin...

Sheila McKechnie Awards 2008

One of our director's, Lisa Northover, was shortlisted for a Sheila McKechnie award last year. Here is news of this year's competiti...

Thank goodness for mother support groups

From time to time people contact Baby Milk Action for advice on feeding their child. This is not something we are able to give and we direct...

New t-shirts for summer!!

The clocks change this weekend in the UK and before you know it Spring will be back and Summer around the corner. Whether you are here or no...

Formula donations causing diarrhoea in emergency situations

The press release below, from the UNICEF East Asia website, reminds us of the need for care in providing help to mothers and infants in emer...

Help put Nestlé in the Corporate Hall of Shame

You can vote to put Nestlé in the Corporate Hall of Shame . This is an initiative of the US organisation, Corporate Accountability Internati...

Nestlé in Sri Lanka - baby food regulations and the dairy industry

The Nestlé 'Shared Value' report says on page 55: "Results of the most recent of these external audits, carried out in Sri Lank...

Infant feeding courses in India

I have received the following announcement from colleagues in India. Certified Course on “Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Special...

Will Nestlé pay compensation for its quality control failings?

My colleague, Patti Rundall, was on South African radio at the weekend, being asked about the recall of Nestlé formula there. A batch has be...

Questions over Nestlé policy and product distribution in Africa

Yesterday I faxed Nestlé's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Brabeck, about Nestlé's bizarre decision to defend its infant formula super...

Can Nestlé really advertise infant formula in Africa as it claims?

On our March 2008 Campaign for Ethical Marketing action sheet , we have exposed various Nestlé violations, including its advertising of infa...

EthicsWorld: The Challenges of Corporate CSR Reporting: Nestle’s Creating Shared Value – True CSR or Just Good PR?

It is often the way that Nestlé PR offensives draw attention to both its malpractice and its dishonest presentation of its practices. There ...

UK Government defends formula regulations in Parliament

The Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula Regulations 2007 were discussed in the UK Parliament last week (5 March 2008). You can read the ful...

Buxton residents respond to Tom Levitt MP's column praising Nestlé

I wrote last week about an inaccurate defence of Nestlé written by Tom Levitt MP in his weekly column in the Buxton Advertiser after an all...

Lancet article on protecting infant health in the Philippines

The new issue of the Lancet has an article about the struggle to protect infants and mothers from the aggressive marketing practices and lob...

Nestle launches 'shared value' report as malpractice is exposed.

This is the latest email alert (sent out using the Mass Mailer I wrote about yesterday): On Monday Nestlé launched its 'shared value...

Mass mailing email alert lists

I have a shareware programme for mass mailing. It is called macmassmaler. As the name suggests, it is for running on a Mac. You can find it...

The gap between Nestle's PR and reality is immense.

Nestlé has just launched a new PR booklet called 'Creating Shared Value'. It did so at a join meeting yesterday with the UN Global C...

Cut throat competition building a US$20 billion baby food market

There is a new report out analysing the global baby food industry from the financial point of view. There are extracts on this website: http...