Sodexo

Sodexo S.A.
FormerlySociété d'Exploitation Hotelière
Company typeSociété Anonyme
EuronextSW
CAC Next 20 component
ISINFR0000121220 Edit this on Wikidata
IndustryFood Service
Founded1966; 58 years ago (1966)
in Marseille, France
FounderPierre Bellon
Headquarters,
France
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
ServicesFoodservice, facility management, service vouchers
RevenueDecrease 17.43 billion (2021)[1]
Increase €339 million (2021)[1]
Increase €137 million (2021)[1]
Total assetsIncrease €18.99 billion (2021)[1]
Total equityIncrease €3.17 billion (2021)[1]
Number of employees
Decrease 412,000 (2021)[1]
SubsidiariesSodexo Justice Services Sodexo USA
Websitesodexo.com
Cups with Sodexo markings at Baptist Hospital of Pensacola

Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux.[2] It has 412,088 employees as of 2021,[3] operates in 55 countries and serves 100 million customers on a daily basis.[4] It is Europe’s second largest company of its type by both number of employees and revenue after Compass Group.[5][4]

For fiscal year 2021 (ending August 2021) revenues reached €17.4 billion with an underlying operating profit of 578 million euro.[6] Market capitalization was 11.5 billion euro as at 26 October 2021.[7]

Sodexo serves many sectors, including private corporations, government agencies, schools from preschool through university (including seminaries and trade schools), hospitals and clinics, assisted-living facilities, military bases, and prisons. As of 2016 subsidiary Sodexo Justice Services operated support services in 122 prisons in eight countries, including 42 in the Netherlands, 34 in France, and others in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Chile, as well as directly running 7 prisons in the UK.[8]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Press Release Fiscal 2021 Results" (PDF). Sodexo. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Contact Us Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine." Sodexo. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
  3. ^ "Number of Sodexo employees worldwide from 2007 to 2021". Statista. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Financial Report First-Half Fiscal 2022" (PDF). Sodexo.com. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Number of Sodexo employees worldwide from 2007 to 2021". Statista. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Sodexo Fiscal 2021 Results: Solid pick-up in activity and better than expected performance". Sodexo.com. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Sodexo Group". karleki.com. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  8. ^ "Restorative Justice and Prison Management Services". Sodexo Justice Services. Retrieved 22 April 2024.