The employee retention rate corresponds to the proportion of employees who remain with the Group during the year out of the overall average number of employees for the year.
Note that for purposes of this calculation employees leaving the Group do not include departures related to legal requirements or regulations concerning lost contracts, transfers between Group subsidiaries or the expiration of fixed-term contracts.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was created in 1997 by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The GRI’s vocation is to lift sustainable development methods to a level equivalent to those of financial reporting, in the interests of comparability, credibility, rigor, frequency and verify ability of the communicated information.
Group net income corresponds to the line “Profit attributable to equity holders of the parent” in the consolidated income statement. It is the Group’s total consolidated net income (i.e., the net income generated by all Group companies) less the portion of net income attributable to interests held by third party shareholders in subsidiaries not wholly owned by Sodexo.
Risks whose frequency and severity require transfer to the insurance market.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards. International Standards give state of the art specifications for products, services and good practice, helping to make industry more efficient and effective. They include ISO 9001 for Quality management, ISO 14001 for Environmental management, ISO 22000 for Food Safety management, ISO 27000 for security IT standard and ISO 55000 for asset management.
Issue volume corresponds to the total face value of service vouchers, cards and digitally-delivered services issued by the Benefits & Rewards Services activity for beneficiaries on behalf of clients.
Net debt corresponds to the Group’s borrowings less operating cash at the balance sheet date .
More details in section 3.5.1 Financial Ratios.
A standard developed in the United Kingdom (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) used as a model for occupational health and safety management systems. Its objective is to provide companies with assessment and certification of their health and safety management systems, consistent with international management system standards.
Sodexo On-site Services respond to the needs of Sodexo’s client segments.
Sodexo shares granted free of consideration by the Board of Directors to the Chief Executive Officer and Group managers in order to reward individual performance and whose vesting is subject to the beneficiary still being part of the Group at the end of the vesting period as well as the achievement of performance conditions (for grants representing over 250 shares). The proportion of performance shares within the overall number of shares granted can vary between 0% and 100% depending on the number of shares granted and the responsibilities of the beneficiaries concerned.
Sodexo Services provided in three main areas: childcare, concierge services and in-home care for dependent persons.
