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Formerly | Société d'Exploitation Hotelière |
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Company type | Société Anonyme |
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ISIN | FR0000121220 ![]() |
Industry | Food Service |
Founded | 1966 in Marseille, France |
Founder | Pierre Bellon |
Headquarters | , France |
Area served | Worldwide |
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Services | Foodservice, facility management, service vouchers |
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Subsidiaries | Sodexo Justice Services Sodexo USA |
Website | sodexo |
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]