Nestle Part 2

Besides from Nestle having conflicts between their customers on more than one occasion, there would have also been conflicts between the stakeholders of Nestle. Of course, each stakeholder wishes to benefit from their involvement with the business, and so sacrifices would have to be made on other people's behalf. This causes conflict, and so also affects the business in a negative way. One example of a common conflict within stakeholders would be the shareholders and the customers. Customers demand a good service at a fair price. Of course, all the share holders care about is the money they gain from being a part of it. This would encourage them to demand that Nestle increase prices or lower quality, which completely goes against the wish of the customers. In this case, we can see how this would be a problem for the business, especially as large as Nestle. A bigger business has a bigger audience to please, so it would take a lot to win over the majority of customers.

There are many drawbacks with running a business in a while that can be considered unethical. Nestle are rather unethical, which causes a lot of controversy. There is rarely anything good with being controversial, and so this is not healthy for a company as influential as Nestle. If the company is small, then controversial tend to be dismissed, and so it isn't as much of a problem. Though with Nestle, they have generated a lot of hate over the years, raising questions about the way they are run. This is their problem, they have brought negativity onto themselves, and it will take a lot of time and effort to fix it. Reputation in business is everything, if you have a bad reputation it is likely that you wont succeed. however, there are no businesses close to the size of Nestle in the same area. this causes problems. They are somewhat allowed to get away with having a bad reputation, as they are so huge.

In terms of environmental impact, their unethical activity tends to stay away from the environment. They take pride in the fact that they attempt to protect the environment. They're so committed to this, they've publicly put out a list of their goals in order to help the environment. For example, they aim to reduce water usage by 50% before 2020. They also set themselves the target of reducing carbon emissions by 40% between 2006-2020. while it isn't huge, it does in fact set a good example, for smaller, and possibly even bigger companies to follow, which in time can only be positive. This is a touch of class from an otherwise unethical and widely hated company, constantly being boycotted. While it doesn't excuse their previous actions, which are in no way acceptable, it does show improvement. However, there are a lot of people who argue improvement is not enough. In a company infested with hatred and controversy, it could be easily believed that they don't care about the environment, they just wish to win back customers.