External Recognition

External
Recognition
Sustainable Development
Towards better Sustainability rankings
For Sodexo, each year improving its performance in socially responsible
investment indexes is a major opportunity to strengthen its position as a
sustainability leader in its market sector.
Who are the rating agencies? What is their mission and why are their analyses so
crucial for the market and companies?
Rating agencies
� Their mission is to evaluate
companies’ social, societal,
environmental performance and
their corporate governance.
� They act as a market intermediary
between the extra-financial indexes
and the investors who buy the
ratings of the evaluated companies.
The rating agencies that are known
worldwide are:
Methodologies
Each agency develops its specific criteria
of assessment:
� Ethics and Human Rights,
� Management of Human Resources,
� The societal and social impact
� The impact on the environment and
measures taken to remedy this,
� Corporate governance,
� Relationships with clients,
� Suppliers and subcontractors
� And relations with all the
stakeholders.
Each criterion is evaluated according
to 3 aspects:
1. Strategy and company policies,
2. Their implementation,
3. Performance obtained.
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References and rankings
� The criteria attached to each subject
are based on framework
published by international
organizations like the UN, ILO
and OECD.
� Companies are ranked by
industry sector.
SRI Indices
(Socially Responsible Investment)
The major extra-financial rating
agencies have developed partnerships
with indices to create SRI indices
gathering companies that get top
marks.
Some existing partnerships:
Index Rating agency
Dow Jones
Sustainability Index
(DJSI)
Sustainability Asset
Management (SAM)
FTSE4Good Eiris & Ethifinance
Ethibel Sustainability
Index (ESI)
Vigeo
> SAM: See the list of 2011 Sector Leaders,
scoring criteria and performance of businesses
from the same sector as Sodexo (p.81 of the
2011 SAM Sustainability Yearbook)
Sodexo’s rankings:
Fédéris ISR Euro since June
2010
Covalence index since February
2010
Ethibel Excellence index since
July 2010
WHAT IS SODEXO DOING
TO MAINTAIN ITS RANKINGS?
Each year, Sodexo’s Sustainable
Development team responds to a dozen
questionnaires, in coordination with all
entities of the Group (HR, Supply Chain,
Finance ...).
In 2011, to answer over 100 questions
asked by SAM, more than 20 people
within the Group have been involved
over a 2-month period.
It is through our actions that each year,
we can make our responses evolve.
HOW IS POSITIONED SODEXO?
� For the seventh time, named 2011-2012
Global Sustainability Leader for its industry
sector («Restaurants, Hotels, Bars and
Recreational Services») by the DJSI.
� SAM Sector Leader and Gold Class for the
4 th year running.
� Selected for inclusion in the 2011 SAM
“Sustainability Yearbook”.
� From 2005 to 2007, and again in 2009, named
«DJSI Global Supersector Leader» («Travel
and Leisure» category).
ECPI Ethical index
€uro since 2008.
DJSI World and DJSI STOXX
(Europe) since 2005.
Going towards better rankings delivers reputational benefits, engages our
employees around the Better Tomorrow Plan and is a catalyst for sustainable
performance improvement.
More information, please contact: Dolores Larroque, Director, Communication and Stakeholders relationships support.
Group Sustainable Development - Dolores.larroque@sodexo.com
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Business in the Community (BITC)
Corporate Responsibility index since
2007.
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