This is a free English translation of the Statutory Auditor's report issued in French and is provided solely for the convenience of English- speaking readers. This report should be read in conjunction with, and construed in accordance with, French law and professional standards applicable in France.
Sodexo S.A.
Head Office: 255, Quai de la Bataille de Stalingrad
92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
For the year ended August 31, 2023
To the Annual General Meeting,
In our capacity as Statutory Auditor of your company (hereinafter the “entity”) appointed as independent third party, and accredited by the French Accreditation Committee (COFRAC) under number 3-1884(1) , we have undertaken a limited assurance engagement on the historical information (observed or extrapolated) in the consolidated non-financial statement, prepared in accordance with the entity's procedures (hereinafter the "Guidelines"), for the year ended August 31st, 2023 (hereinafter, the "Information" and the "Statement" respectively), presented in the Group's management report pursuant to the legal and regulatory provisions of Articles L. 225 102-1, R. 225-105 and R. 225-105-1 of the French Commercial Code (code de commerce).
At the request of the entity, we also performed work designed to express a reasonable assurance conclusion on the information selected by the entity and identified by the sign √.
Based on the procedures we performed as described under the "Nature and scope of procedures" paragraph and the evidence we obtained, nothing has come to our attention that causes us to believe that the Statement is not prepared in accordance with the applicable regulatory provisions and that the Information, taken as a whole, is not presented fairly in accordance with the Guidelines, in all material respects.
In our opinion, the information selected by the entity and identified with the symbol √ in the Statement has been prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with the Guidelines.
The absence of a commonly used and generally accepted reporting framework or of a significant body of established practices on which to draw to assess and measure the Information allows for different, but acceptable, measurement techniques that can affect comparability between entities and over time.
Consequently, the Information needs to be read and understood together with the Guidelines, summarized in the Statement and available on the entity’s website or on request from its headquarters.
The Information may be subject to uncertainty inherent to the state of scientific and economic knowledge and the quality of external data used. Some information is sensitive to the choice of methodology and the assumptions or estimates used for its preparation and presented in the Statement.
Management of the entity is responsible for:
The Statement has been prepared by the Management Board.
(1) Accreditation Cofrac Inspection, number 3-1884, scope available at www.cofrac.fr