Trinny & Susannah - Nestle

[suedonim]

For those of us incensed by Trinny and Susannah advertising Nescafe, I've finally found an address to write to. I called Baby Milk Action and when I said Nescafe the women replied "Ah, you want an address for Trinny and Susannah?"

Trinny and Susannah,
ARG
4 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 8PA

We were discussing this last night too. Bloody incensed!

What's happened exactly? What have they done???

I haven't seen it, whats the problem?

I'm intrugued too - I was just pleased to see that she could look really rough in the moorning too

Yes, what's wrong with the ad, apart from the silver tinfoil thing wrapped round the skinny ones neck?

Isn't it because Nestle sell both nescafe but also sell formula milk to the third world? ...and so the thinking is that as mums, Trinny and Susannah should know better than to promote a multinational who sells formula to the impoverished third world (or something like that?) ?

Have a look at this

I didn't know about this, but , yes - would have thought that S&T's advisors would have done

Maybe it's just me but those pictuires on the hoardings make them look very strange. Can't imagine they're too thrilled with Nestle anyway.

Oh yes, I know I should boycott Nestle too. It's the same with Unilever as far as I know so it pretty much leaves out most food if you stop buying from multi-nationals......

Crumbs, I didn't expect all this reaction! Thanks for posting a link, Frenchgirl.

It isn't just Third World countries, though the effects are more severe there, it's about mis-selling of formula everywhere.

Thanks Suedonim, I'm writing about this. I'm sorry that as mums of young children they didn't see the problem with taking the Nestle shilling (quite apart from how unflattering the whole campaign is anyway).

Well done Suedonim!

Its not just the sale of formula milk ladies, its the fact that nestle downright lie to get those sales; they lead women to believe that its better for their babies and often give them enuf free formula to last just long enough for the breast milk to stop, (which is illegal) then they have to buy it. Of course, it is often more than their weekly income so they try and overdilute it to stretch it out and the baby becomes malnourished. Older children also suffer from the income going on formula. Plus the directions are rarely in the local language. And vitally, steralising is rarely an option and water is not clean in the first place, so babies get sickness and diahorrea and die. Hundreds of them. But hey, Nestle is making a profit on it...
And they did promise to adhere to a code of conduct. They wrote the code and then didn't even stick to it
I hate nestle, can you tell??? I also wrote to T and S with my pen dipped in vitriol and my house is nestle free (apart from the bloody jelly tots I ate, forgetting they were by nestle boo hiss)

My grandfather was head of Nestles in Sri Lanka and my grandma used to go round the hospitals giving out free samples to the mothers!!!!
I am english but married a srilankan who himself was breastfed for a long time but the rest of his family think it's farmore fashionable and posh to bottlefeed especially those still there.

FairyMum - Unilever is NOT the same and has some very strong Social & Corporate Responsibility guidelines as far as I'm aware.

Dh & worked for Unilever for many years, and I think they are a British/ Dutch company to be proud of...

Please folks, don't tar all multinationals with the same brush....

agreed Mo2, unilever has a very impressive record

Oh no, I fed DD2 with Nestle milk! It was called "Nan" I think. I was in the semi third world at the time...

Yes, I was offended by them advertising Nestle, it was my husband who pointed it out. I used to like their tv progs, but not happy about them now!!its hard enough to avoid nestle without having popular women -mothers too - thrusting their tainted products at us. disgraceful!

Find it very annoying too, especially as I recently read a Sunday times (at my parents - honest) about them discreetly whipping attractive boobies out of stylish outfits to feed cute and almost certainly stylish babies at every opportunity Grrrr think they should consider the health of other people's babies as well rather than just taking the money and running - never let it be said that I miss an opportunity to get all self righteous

A Sunday Times article obviously - I mean I know its gone all tabloid now but the whole paper wasn't about T and S! Doh

I did boycott Nestle until I started bfing. Then I had to have an egg free and dairy free diet so my son didn't have terrible eczema and in NZ most dark chocolate has milk solids in, and my mum brings me over some Nestle stuff when she visits which is vegan. Okay so I don't feel tremendously good about this, but I figure I'm not buying any formula, and bizarrely their other products are helping to keep me breastfeeding longer. The boycott will resume when I can go back to Cadbury.

How do we tell Nestle we're boycotting them? I know this thread is about T&S but just wondered. Presumably it's more effective if you tell them you're doing it and why.

OK I just wrote too..... I WILL boycott their programme too though I am a fan
So I guess I am punishing myself...

I already boycott Nestle - ALL their brands.

I have always boycotted them as I hate that programme. I think they are supposed to be posh and just behave really common. They are just vile with terrible dress-sense. Who would take their advise anyway?