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In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Mark Schneider CEO of Nestlé

In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

Norges Bank Investment Management

In Good Company, Business, Norges Bank, Nicolai Tangen

4.8186 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Nicolai Tangen talks to Mark Schneider CEO of Nestlé, the world's largest food & beverage company. They talk about the biggest food trends in coffee and pet food, how they are working on ESG issues in their supply chain and Mark even share what he eats.

They also discussed leadership, recruitment, phycological safety and much more!


The production team on this episode were PLAN-B’s Martin Oftedal and Olav Haraldsen Roen. Background research were done by Sigurd Brekke with additional input from our portfolio manager Yvonne Silden Langlo.


The conversation was recorded 26th September.


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0:00.0

Well, I'm here today with Mark Schneider.

0:10.9

What an honor, Mark.

0:11.8

You are the CEO of the world-largest food company.

0:15.3

Thanks for having me.

0:15.9

You're looking forward to the conversation.

0:17.4

Now, you guys sell one billion products a day.

0:24.5

You have 2,000 brands and control a lot of different markets. So my first question is, what do you actually eat? I consider myself a

0:31.7

flexitarian and that means I don't really believe in a whole lot of restrictions. But over the years, I noticed that I have dialed down meat consumption quite a bit. In fact, at home, I rarely cook meat at all because when you travel, you know, there's so many occasions when you get served meat. I also believe in a large intake of fruit and vegetables. Usually I try to shoot for 10 to 15 a day.

0:57.0

Oh, wow.

0:58.0

And I'm a strong believer in vegetable juicing.

1:00.0

So that's how I start the morning on a self-made vegetable juice.

1:03.0

And those are my secrets.

1:05.0

What is your favorite brand of the ones you produce?

1:08.0

My favorite brand among the Nestle brands, very clearly, a espresso.

1:13.1

I think it's an amazing system that combines superb quality with super convenience in preparing the coffee.

1:18.8

Yeah, I know I'm drinking one of your coffees now.

1:21.1

What would you say are the main trends now in food consumption worldwide?

1:24.7

I think overall you see that with Dr. Google being so accessible to everyone,

1:30.3

people's knowledge about nutrition is really on the rise.

1:34.1

I'm from a generation where even at school you didn't learn much about it.

1:37.4

And so I'm pretty much a self-taught person when it comes to nutrition.

1:41.5

I think these days, the schooling in this is so much better. And then people,

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