Food Service giant Sodexo commitment to Sustainability. What about Philadelphia based Aramark?

March 1, 2008

I noticed the short PR announcement from the Canadian subsidiary of Sodexo, describing the impact of the introduction of new dispensers allowing to dispense a single napkin made of recycled paper at a time. You will find that information here.

I then navigated to the website of the Sodexo Group which is a giant 320,000 employees company operating in 80 countries based near Paris. I was surprised to find on their corporate website a 24 pages brochure giving in great details, an account of the Group sustainability strategy, target areas, objectives, performance indicators, action plan for fiscal year 2007-2008 and examples of programs and initiatives implemented by some of the Sodexo companies throughout the world in one of identified four priority areas: pollution prevention, waste treatment, energy saving and water consumption control. Here is a link to Sodexo’s booklet “Act as a Corporate Citizen for the Planet”.

It so happens that Aramark, one of Sodexo’s closest competitor is based downtown Philadelphia…

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