Világgazdaság reported that more and more investment companies are encouraging the companies in their portfolio to shift their focus to the production of products that serve a healthy lifestyle to the maximum.

Reform investors who focus on sustainability have already been able to accelerate the real green transition at large oil companies - such as Shell, BP and Exxon Mobil - by applying pressure, so their concentrated action against the food industry giants can also bring results.

NESTLÉ, DANONE, KELLOGG, KRAFT HEINZ AND THEIR COMPANIES HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PLACED IN THE CROSSROADS TO GET THESE GIANTS TO TAKE REAL STEPS FOR HEALTHY FOOD SUPPLY.

This time, however, the demanders are not environmentalists, but businessmen and investors who have more than 3,000 billion dollars worth of capital behind them, ready to persuade recalcitrant companies to switch, but they can easily be pushed out.

Advocates for the reformers, Legal & General Investment Management and BMO Global Asset Management

THEY WENT IN A LETTER TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FOOD COMPANIES IN THEIR PORTFOLIO TO REPORT AT THE UPCOMING ANNUAL MEETING ON WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THE FIELD OF EXPANDING THEIR HEALTHY FOOD OFFER AND WHAT THEY PLAN TO DO ABOUT THE CHRONOLOGICAL DISEASE AFFECTING WELFARE SOCIETIES.

Institutional investors receive professional support from, among others, ShareAction, a non-profit organization dealing with responsible investment, and it is also thanks to this that one of the giants, the British-Dutch Unilever, has already capitulated: its management has undertaken to not change the health "certificate" of its food portfolio they are issued only on the basis of their own controlled measurements, but also the results of the measurements of external, independent institutions - such as the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) - appear in the rating, so that the consumer can get an objective picture of the real health risks of the product.

Companies also have a huge responsibility, but since they live off the market and are profit-oriented, they understandably shine. Nestlé, for example, classified 80.5 percent of its products in the healthy category two years ago, compared to this, ATNI's independent measurements showed only 43 percent. Since then, the Swiss company has risen to 60 percent, which means it still has room for improvement.

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