Sodexo UK & Ireland

Sodexo’s new eco-vehicles

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 [...]

Footprint Awards 2013 shortlist announced

THE NOMINEES for the 2013 Footprint Awards – the industry’s only awards scheme encouraging sustainability and responsible business throughout the supply chain – have today been announced following a record number of entries.                           “Record number of entries demonstrate sustainability is at the [...]

Sodexo reacts to horsemeat secrecy claims

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 [...]

Video – Inaugural Footprint Health & Vitality Honours

Video – Inaugural Footprint Health & Vitality Honours

LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]

Companies rewarded in first ever Health & Vitality Honours

LEADING PERSONALITIES from the foodservice and hospitality industries, including the likes of Raymond Blanc OBE, LACA’s Anne Bull and Westminster Kingsway’s Gary Hunter, teamed-up with health and nutrition expert Dr Susan Jebb and Sodexo Health Ambassador Matt Dawson MBE to recognise healthy best practice within foodservice. The high profile judging panel this afternoon rewarded those [...]

FootprintFeature: Greenwash needn’t be a dirty word

THE TOUGHEST test of a business’s sustainability credentials is what it does out of the public eye – and eco-friendly cleaning is the next challenge for foodservice operators. Nick Hughes reports.                       It hasn’t happened overnight, but there’s little doubt that foodservice operators are beginning to [...]

Sodexo pedals to Paris for charity

SIX SODEXO employees have cycled from London to Paris, raising almost £10,000 for the Royal British Legion and the company’s own STOP Hunger initiative. The team, made up of Chris Bray, Andy Rogers, Steve Groves, Gareth Roulston, Peter Scargill and Alan Staples, all from the Sodexo Defence business, started early on 21 September from the [...]

Sodexo launches Better Tomorrow Plan app

Sodexo launches Better Tomorrow Plan app

Sodexo have been pioneers of sustainability in the foodservice industry for the last 5 years but the Better Tomorrow Plan app takes this to new levels.

Embedding CSR

If any operation has sustainability built into its DNA, it’s Sodexo. Phil Hooper explains the company’s strategy to Foodservice Footprint It has been said that sustainability runs through the DNA of Sodexo. Arguably, the company is the absolute ‘pin up’ in this area with its own approach to corporate citizenship and the Better Tomorrow Plan [...]