Fiscal 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

2. CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AT SODEXO

Stakeholder engagement

Every day across 53 countries Sodexo’s 421,991 employees serve over 100 million people at each life stage in various environments - hospitals, schools, workplaces and retirement communities. This provides Sodexo with a tremendous responsibility to engage its stakeholders. Sodexo commits to dialogue and to foster interactions with individuals and organizations both inside and outside the Group, focusing on mutual learning to improve practices where Sodexo operates and beyond. When engaging its stakeholders, Sodexo does it transparently, in compliance with the laws, regulations, and the company policies that govern us.

Sodexo interacts with: governments and regulators, investors, institutions and NGOs, suppliers and merchants, consumers, clients and employees. The stakeholders interact with Sodexo.

Building sustainable relationships with all stakeholders

Sodexo’s success as an employer, a service provider, and a corporate citizen depends on our capacity to build lasting relationships with our stakeholders through numerous social and environmental programs.

Through its expertise and close stakeholder ties, Sodexo is fully mobilized to respond to the multiple challenges and needs of thousands of businesses and organizations, consumers, employees and suppliers.

Listening to our stakeholders is the very foundation of our business activity. The strong relationships that Sodexo develops and maintains with its clients, consumers, employees, shareholders and local communities allow us to respond to their expectations while expanding the virtuous circle created by solutions that benefit all of its ecosystem.