Table 2.
Summary of examples of corporate political activity (CPA) strategies identified for the selected dairy industry actors in France
| Total (examples) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategy | Practice | Danone | Lactalis | CNIEL | Row | Overall |
| Information and messaging | Lobbying | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 129 |
| Stress the economic importance of the industry | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | ||
| Promote deregulation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Frame the debate on diet- and public health-related issues | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | ||
| Shape the evidence base on diet- and public health-related issues | 26 | 7 | 82 | 115 | ||
| Financial incentives | Financial incentives | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Constituency building | Establish relationships with key opinion leaders and health organisations | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 38 |
| Seek involvement in the community | 12 | 0 | 1 | 13 | ||
| Establish relationships with policy makers | 13 | 1 | 4 | 18 | ||
| Establish relationships with the media | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Legal strategies | Use legal action (or the threat of) against public policies or opponents | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Influence the development of trade and investment agreements | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Policy substitution | Policy substitution | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Opposition fragmentation and destabilisation | Opposition fragmentation and destabilisation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total number of CPA practices identified | 60 | 11 | 99 | 170 | 170 | |
CNIEL, Centre National Interprofessionnel de l’Economie Laitière.