ANNE PIERCE, the CEO of The Springboard Charity, was last night [23rd May] revealed as the winner of the Footprint ‘Special Achievement’ award 2013, for her contribution to the social sustainability of the industry, at a ceremony held at RIBA, London. Other winners of the night [...]
SODEXO HAS increased the number of electric vehicles in its fleet to 18. Four new Renault Kangoo vans, which are noise and C02 emissions-free, have been leased to transport staff and equipment around sites. They will service AstraZeneca sites in Alderley Park and Macclesfield, both [...]
FORMER RUGBY World Cup winner, Celebrity Masterchef winner and Sodexo’s ambassador for health and wellbeing, Matt Dawson, has spent time this week redistributing surplus food from charity FareShare to Londoners suffering from food poverty. Dawson joined Sodexo UK and Ireland’s chief executive, Debbie White, to [...]
SODEXO IS ON track to meet almost all of the targets set out in its ‘Better Tomorrow Plan’. The caterer and service provider has just published its eighth annual corporate citizenship report highlighting its sustainability performance across the business. The report shows that it [...]
CATERING FIRM Sodexo has revealed the two suppliers of meat products in its chain that tested positive for horse DNA. The affected burger was from Brakes while the two mince products were supplied by Vestey. Vestey Foods is chaired by Lord Vestey, a senior member [...]
SCOTTISH POLITICIANS have criticised catering companies Brakes and Sodexo for their failure to publicise information about who supplied them with products contaminated with horse meat. In a national food policy debate in Scottish Parliament this week, attention turned to the horse meat scandal. Lib [...]
SODEXO HAS reacted to claims that it is failing to publicly disclose information relating to the contamination of frozen beef products in its supply chain. Speaking in the House of Commons last week, shadow environment secretary Mary Creagh stated that Sodexo had “refused publicly to name [...]
CATERING COMPANY Sodexo is well on the way to achieving its 2015 diversity targets. In 2013, women represent 38% of the board of directors and hold 40% of management positions. Women’s representation among the top 300 senior executives also rose to 23% (from 16% in 2007) in line [...]
ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold dark nights and the arrival of unpaid credit card bills. This year it fell on [...]
THE LIGHT-TOUCH approach to healthy food policy concerns campaigners, but the government and food businesses are now in contact more than ever – and it’s making a difference, Phil Hooper tells David Burrows. It’s no secret the coalition government likes to nudge rather than push. Nudging, an idea popularised by academics Richard Thaler and Cass [...]
