Working with the Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD)

• Nestlé is working with the IGD to find ways to reduce distribution impacts, in particular through a collaborative distribution initiative through which Nestlé partners with customers, suppliers and competitors to utilise vehicle fleets in the most efficient way.
• Working with United Biscuits, we have reduced the running of empty vehicles by 270,000 km per year since 2007, helping us win the Motor Transport Partnership Award in 2009.
• Our collaboration with ASDA during Easter 2009 decreased our travel by 110,000km, while sharing trucks with Mars helped eliminate 12,000km of duplicate journeys in the run-up to Christmas 2009.