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