Sodexo has been ranked, for a seventh consecutive year, as the best-performing company for Social, Environmental and Economic Performance in the RobecoSAM ‘Sustainability Yearbook 2014’ as Sector Leader and Gold Class. The FM firm Sodexo reports that it has again topped its industry and is the only company in the sector named Gold Class. Sodexo earned the highest overall score in its peer group, 80 percent (compared to a sector average of 48).
Sodexo earned a perfect (100) score for the positive local impact of its business operations around the world. Sodexo also earned the highest score in its industry in the social pillar – particularly impressive in light the large number of employees (nearly 428,000) and the decentralized nature of its business (33,300 client sites in 80 countries).
Damien Verdier, Sodexo Group chief marketing and strategic planning officer, said: “We are very proud to again be leading our business sector for our efforts and achievements to contribute to the economic, social and environmental development of the cities, regions and countries where we operate.”
And Elisabeth Carpentier, Sodexo Group chief human resources officer, said: “We are both pleased and humbled that Sodexo continues to be at the forefront of what it means to be a socially responsible and diverse company because we know that human resources are a leading factor driving competition now and in the future.
“By developing policies focused on women and men at all levels of the organisation, companies will become stronger, and quality of life will not be an outcome of their success but a fundamental component of it.”
Methodology
This yearbook is published by RobecoSAM (http://www.robecosam.com/), an asset management company focusing on sustainability investing. This year more than 2000 companies were considered for inclusion in the yearbook, using up to 120 financial, environmental, social and economic indicators to evaluate companies in 59 industries.
The RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook is regarded as the world’s most comprehensive publication on corporate sustainability performance, in part due to continually raising the bar for inclusion.
For more on RobecoSAM’s Sustainability Yearbook visit: http://yearbook.robecosam.com/
