2.1.2 Better Tomorrow 2028 - A New Chapter of Impact
Since 2009, Sodexo’s Better Tomorrow roadmaps have structured the Group’s sustainability journey, turning ambition into measurable actions. Better Tomorrow 2025 provided a clear framework to align priorities across climate, nutrition, employee engagement, health and safety and responsible sourcing, while reinforcing governance and embedding sustainability into daily operations.
Over the past cycle, Sodexo achieved significant milestones, but the Better Tomorrow 2025 also highlighted recurring challenges: the complexity of global supply chains, the importance of robust data, and the need to more closely connect sustainability actions with site-level operations.
These insights, combined with the results of our Double Materiality Assessment (DMA), conducted in 2024 under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) framework, provided a solid baseline for the next chapter. With the support of an external partner, Sodexo engaged its Strategy, Communications, Human Resources, Supply Management, Sustainability, and regional teams through interviews and in-depth analyses. This collaborative process resulted in a roadmap that is both a continuation and a pragmatic evolution: Better Tomorrow 2028.
The governance of the process reflected its importance: the Sustainability Board Committee and the Senior Leadership Team were actively involved as contributors and validators, ensuring alignment with the Group’s overall strategy. The outcome is a roadmap anchored in the business, with concrete actions designed to drive change starting at site level, where Sodexo creates daily impact.
The Venn diagram illustrates the intersection between three areas of the company's commitment:
- For our employees: Focuses on employee well-being and talent development.
- For our clients: Emphasizes responsible purchasing, better meals, and efficient resource management.
- For a positive impact on the planet and society: Highlights the reduction of environmental impacts and the creation of a hunger-free world.
The overlap between these areas shows how the company connects these commitments for a global impact, emphasizing initiatives that benefit employees, clients, and the planet simultaneously.
With Better Tomorrow 2028, Sodexo reaffirms its ambition to deliver sustainability every day, everywhere, through commitments that are both bold and operationally grounded. Rather than shifting course, it represents an evolution. It focuses on embedding sustainability deeper into Sodexo’s operating model and delivering impact across three interconnected pillars:
- From our People: nurturing well-being and development for all employees.
- To our Clients: providing responsible sourced products, meals that are good for both people and planet, and efficient resource management.
- For a Better Planet & Society: reducing pressure on climate and nature, and advancing the fight against hunger.
To ensure consistency and scalability, Better Tomorrow 2028 is supported by local playbooks, clear performance indicators, and robust reporting aligned with CSRD requirements. Each country and site is accountable for integrating sustainability into its own reality, driving progress in a collective, measurable way.
More than ever, Sodexo is convinced that sustainability cannot be decreed, it must be built step by step, with transparency, consistency, and collaboration.
With Better Tomorrow 2028, the Group is entering a new cycle of pragmatic, results-driven sustainability, strengthening its contribution to Net Zero 2040 while creating value for employees, clients, consumers, and communities worldwide.