ANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007

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> THE QUALITY OF LIFE ARCHITECT EXPERIENCING AND SHARING QUALITY OF LIFE
> Sustainable development
IMPROVING QUALITY
of Life FOR EVERYONE
NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
An integral part of our strategy
Present in 80 countries covering
80 percent of the world’s population,
Sodexo’s 342,000 employees, who
represent more than 130 nationalities,
put their collective cultural diversity
and expertise to accomplish a shared
vision, to: “Become the premier global
outsourcing expert in Quality of Life
services.”
“Improving the Quality of Daily Life”
expresses not only Sodexo’s desire
to make life better for everyone
we serve today, but also our commitment
to ensuring a better future for
generations to come.
The will to progress
Sodexo forms a community of progress
with its clients, customers, employees,
suppliers, shareholders and host
countries. Our ambition is to structure
a progress-driven approach and
measure achievements to make every
day a better day. The action plan has
three objectives:
• build a network of coordinators
throughout the Group,
• develop our commitments
and indicators, and
• introduce common tools.
As a socially responsible company,
Sodexo makes social and environmental
criteria an integral part of our policies
and programs. The Ethical Principles
and Sustainable Development Contract,
which formulates our commitments
and sustainable development strategy,
was signed by our senior management
team in 2003. In keeping with
an improvement-oriented approach,
our actions in the fi eld are adapted to
the specifi c cultural, economic and
environmental features of the countries
in which we operate.
In 2006, Sodexo implemented
a management tool to exchange
and share the best sustainable
development initiatives and since,
has published a Sustainable
Development Report available at
sodexo.com.