Nestle : Nestlé and Alliance for YOUth offer 150,000 young people in Europe jobs and training
November 05, 2018 at 03:13 am
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Nestlé and its Alliance for Youth partner companies have delivered on their pledge to offer 150,000 young people in Europe jobs and apprenticeships or traineeships over the last two years.
The announcement comes as Nestlé celebrates European Vocational Skills Week with a range of factory visits, workshops, roundtables, careers days and youth training events across Europe.
Alliance for YOUth is also joining forces with JA Europe, the continent's largest provider of education programmes for entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy in Europe, to support 500 secondary school and vocational students to achieve the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass.
Marco Settembri, Nestlé's for Zone : 'I am very happy to see that we have altogether delivered on our pledge to offer jobs and training opportunities to about 150,000 young people in the last two years. We will continue to step up efforts to strengthen business-education collaboration and invest in young people's future.'
A business-driven initiative with over 200+ member companies in Europe, Alliance for YOUth is on track to deliver on its commitments to provide 230,000 job and training opportunities to young people across Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA) by 2020.
Nestlé Needs YOUth is the company's global youth initiative that supports its ambition to help 10 million young people worldwide access economic opportunities by 2030.
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Nestlé S.A. is the world's leading agri-food group. Net sales break down by category of products as follows:
- powdered and liquid beverages (26.7%): soluble coffees (Nescafé and Starbucks brands), coffee in capsules (Nespresso), chocolate drinks (Nesquik, Milo, etc.), tea drinks (Nestea), etc.;
- pet food (20.3%): brands such as Purina, Friskies, Felix, etc.;
- pharmaceutical, nutrition and well-being products (16.4%): nutritional supplements (Resource, Boost, Nutren, Optifast, Peptamen brands, etc.), infant and maternal nutrition products (NAN, illuma, Cerelac, Nido, Gerber), ketogenic beverages (BrainXpert), (Nesquick, Fitness, Cheerios, Lion, etc.), etc.;
- ready meals and seasoning products (12.5%): frozen and chilled dishes (Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets and Stouffer's brands), soups (Maggi), etc.;
- dairy products and ice cream (11.8%): powdered milk, sweetened condensed milk, yoghurt and cream desserts, ice cream (Nido, Nesvita, Carnation, La Laitière, Coffee Mate, Nestlé Ice Cream, Dreyers, Häagen-Dazs, Extrême brands, etc.);
- chocolates, sweets and biscuits (8.7%): Kit Kat, Smarties, Cailler, Terrafertil, etc. brands;
- bottled waters (3.6%): Nestlé Pure Life, Vittel, Perrier, S. Pellegrino, etc. brands.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Switzerland (1.2%), France (3.8%), the United Kingdom (3.8%), Germany (2.4%), Europe (12.8%), the United States and Canada (35%), China (5.9%), Asia and Oceania (21.4%) and Latin America (13.7%).