Sodexo

Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. It has 426,464 employees as of 2025, operates in 43 countries and serves 80 million customers on a daily basis on 27,000 sites. It is Europe’s second largest company of its type by both number of employees and revenue after Compass Group and France’s second largest private employer worldwide. For fiscal year 2023 (ending August 2023), revenues reached €28.1 billion with an underlying operating profit of 699 million euro. Market capitalization was 11.5 billion euros as at 26 October 2023. 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.