"Addressing global challenges requires a collective and concerted effort, involving all actors. Through partnerships and alliances, and by pooling comparative advantages, we increase our chances for success"
- Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General

Creating Shared Value & Global Development 2010-2020 – A World Forum
May 26-27, 2010, London



Creating Shared Value & Global Development

On 27 May 2010, Nestlé and the International Business Leaders’ Forum will hold the Second Creating Shared Value Forum. The Forum gathers world's leading experts in the areas of nutrition, water and rural development to discuss the serious global challenges facing us in these three areas, and the role of business in solving them.

The World Bank estimates that over 1 billion people live in hunger, an increase of 200 million in the past 2 years. While significant progress has been made in the previous three decades in reducing hunger, poverty and child mortality, it appears that progress has stopped, with the advances of the past three decades now in danger of erosion.

In order to address these global problems, multi-sector solutions will be required, of a nature and on a scale never seen before. Business is now widely accepted as a partner in change, but will need to reorient its thinking to serve the interests of both shareholders and society simultaneously. This is what is referred to as Creating Shared Value – a concept which has been developed in close association with Professor Michael Porter and a new Nestlé Advisory Board.

At the event, Nestlé will announce the winner of the Nestlé Prize in Creating Shared Value. The Prize is awarded every other year to an individual, a non-governmental organization (NGO) or a business that has proved outstanding innovation in the areas of nutrition, water and rural development.

For more information, please visit the Nestlé Creating Shared Value Website.