Sodexo

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Sodexo SA

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legal form Holding
ISIN FR0000121220
founding 1966
Seat Issy-les-Moulineaux , France
management Denis Machuel
Number of employees 460,000 (2018)
sales EUR 20.4 billion (2018)
Branch Catering , facility management
Website www.sodexo.com
Status: 2018

The Sodexo Group (until 2008 Sodexho Alliance ) is a listed ( CAC 40 ) French company specializing in catering , community catering and facility management . Sodexo provides these services for asylum seekers' homes, authorities, prisons, industrial companies, kindergartens and daycare centers, hospitals, military bases, rehabilitation clinics, schools, retirement homes and nursing homes.

The company operates in 72 countries and generated sales of around 20.4 billion euros in the 2017/2018 financial year with 460,000 employees. According to the company's own information, 100 million end customers worldwide use the company's services every day. Sodexo ranks 18th among the largest employers worldwide.

history

Sodexo was founded in 1966 in Marseille by Pierre Bellon . Michel Landel has been the CEO since 2005. The name originally came from Société d'exploitation hotelière , or “Sodexho” for short. At the shareholders' meeting on January 22, 2008 in Paris, a new model and brand identity were presented. The brand name was shortened to Sodexo. The Sodexo Group has two main areas: On-site Services and Benefits and Rewards Services .

Sodexo on-site services in Germany

Sodexo Beteiligungsgesellschaft BV & Co. KG
legal form Holding
founding 1958 as Eiring & Ott KG
Seat Heidelberg , Germany
management Adrienne Axler (CEO)
Number of employees 15,320 including service companies
sales approx. 611 million including managed sales
Website www.sodexo.de

Sodexo On-site Services (Sodexo Services GmbH, registered office: Rüsselsheim) entered the German market in 1991 by taking over Eiring & Ott KG (founded in 1958). After growth and several takeovers of medium-sized companies, the connection with the Zehnacker Group including its subsidiary GA-tec took place in December 2008 . As a result, the company, which until then had mainly been active in communal catering in Germany , has the entire area of ​​facility management, including technical building equipment, in its service portfolio. In the Lünendonk study , Sodexo is in the top 10. The merger took place under the umbrella of Sodexo Holding, based in Heidelberg. Since 2012, Sodexo has also been offering concepts for the development and operation of day-care centers for companies and municipalities.

Bowel disease epidemic

In September 2012, the company became known to the public because of intestinal diseases in around 11,200 children and educators in many kindergartens and schools in the new federal states . The wave of vomiting and diarrhea reached its peak at the end of September 2012.

The Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety assumes that frozen strawberries from China were the trigger for the massive diarrhea in schoolchildren. These strawberries had been delivered by a wholesaler to the commercial kitchens of the Sodexo company based in Rüsselsheim in Hesse, which in turn supplied the school canteens with them. The company apologized in writing at the beginning of October 2012 and announced that those affected would be compensated. The Darmstadt public prosecutor stated on October 24, 2012 that the company was not to blame for the illnesses.

Benefits and Rewards Services

Benefits and Rewards Services is - next to the area of ​​on-site solutions (catering & facility management) - the second largest business area of ​​the Sodexo Group. Benefits and Rewards Services offers companies of all sizes and the public sector motivation concepts and solutions based on various media (for example as vouchers, cards or on an electronic basis). The company's sales volume was EUR 14.7 billion in the 2011/12 financial year. Worldwide, 27 million users use Sodexo solutions in 34 countries. Sodexo users have over a million redemption points available.

Benefits and Rewards Services has been operating in Germany since 1977. The main field of business is the restaurant pass , which is issued by 9,000 companies to around 250,000 employees as a cashless meal allowance . The restaurant pass (also a restaurant check, restaurant voucher or meal ticket) is a tried and tested system of meal subsidies with which employers and employees can achieve tax advantages. Customers who use this system include corporations such as Allianz, Daimler, Deutsche Bank and more than 10,000 medium-sized companies.

The business area also includes billing vouchers for asylum seekers , which in some German districts, in accordance with the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, are given instead of cash in order to be able to buy food. The product is called "Voucher Pass". These solutions are associated with disadvantages for asylum seekers: "In practice, vouchers regularly result in serious reductions in value, for example due to denominations that are too large in terms of amount, lack of return of remaining money and / or redemption only in certain shops".

Benefits and Rewards Services is represented internationally with various services.

Sodexo Justice Service

Logo of the Sodexo Justice Service

The subsidiary Sodexo Justice Service (formerly known as United Kingdom Detention Services or Kalyx ) operates five prisons in England on behalf of the government. The company is accused of serious human rights violations there, further evidence under Sodexo Justice Services on the English-language wiki page. In France and Chile, Sodexo provides services in sections of various prisons.

owner

The largest single shareholder of the Sodexo Group is the Holding Bellon SA of the Pierre Bellon family with 37.71% .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On January 22nd, 2008, at the annual general meeting of the Sodexho Alliance in Paris, it was announced that the name would be changed to Sodexo as part of the refreshing of the brand identity
  2. ↑ Fiscal 2018 Registration Document. In: Sodexo. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Sodexo prospectus for day-care centers , accessed on October 6, 2012.
  4. ↑ Caterer rejects allegations , Der Tagesspiegel from September 29, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2012
  5. ↑ a b After the wave of gastrointestinal infections in East Germany: Catering company wants to compensate those affected ( memento of October 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, October 6, 2012 (accessed on October 6, 2012).
  6. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 5, 2012
  7. ↑ HR-Online from October 24, 2012 (accessed October 24, 2012)
  8. ↑ Sodexo: The Voucher Pass. An intelligent and cost-saving solution! Online, - ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sodexo-motivation.de
  9. ↑ Georg Classen: The Asylum Seekers Benefits Act and the basic right to a subsistence level that is dignified. Opinion on the hearing on February 7th, 2011 in the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs of the German Bundestag, published by the PRO ASYL eV and the Refugee Council Berlin e. V., Berlin 2011, p. 24. http://www.fluechtlingsinfo-berlin.de/fr/asylblg/C Klassen_AsylbLG_Verfassung.pdf
  10. ↑ The Guardian, 4th October 2019: Baby dies in UK prison after inmate 'gives birth alone in cell | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/04/baby-dies-in-uk-prison-after-inmate-gives-birth-alone-in-cell
  11. ↑ Share Ownership , at www.sodexo.com , accessed October 22, 2016

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