Sodexho Sustainability

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SodexhoSustainability

• Date 6th December 2007

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Agenda

• Introduction to Sodexho
• Sodexho Sustainability globally
• Sustainable procurement

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Introduction to Sodexho

• Global food integrated facilities management
  company operating in 80 Countries
• UK Ireland employees - 48,000 people
• Provide food facilities management at over
  2,500 locations
• Operate in the following sectors
• Business Industry
• Education
• Healthcare
• Defence
• Sodexho Prestige

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Sodexho Sustainability - Global

• Selected as Sustainability leader by Dow Jones
  for 3rd consecutive year.
• Definition Ensuring a better quality of life
  for everyone now and for generations to come.
• Focus on issues where we have the greatest social
  environmental impact, and which are our core
  business.

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Sodexho Sustainable - Global

• Focusing on key areas-
• Corporate governance
• Brand management
• Risk management
• Food Safety
• Environment
• Stakeholder management
• Suppliers management
• Social Economic

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Sustainable Procurement in UK
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Sustainable procurement Suppliers

• All suppliers are required to sign up to the
  following Sodexho documentation-
• Sodexho Supplier Code of Conduct dated September
  2007
• Sodexho Food Safety Code of Practice
• Sodexho works closely with suppliers to develop
  long term agreements and relationships which
  enable us to provide a leading edge purchasing
  function that reacts to the specific needs of
  clients.

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Sustainable procurement Logistics

• Remodel distribution network and consolidate
  number of distribution service providers.
• Consolidation of Grocery, Frozen, Ambient and
  Fruit Vegetables to one logistics provider.
• Consolidate food orders to reduce frequency of
  deliveries.
• Multi-temperature deliveries.
• Reduction of 35,000 deliveries to our unit which
  equates to 18
• Reduction of fuel usage and CO2 emissions.
• Incentives in place for both units and
  distributors to reduce the number of deliveries
  made.

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Sustainable procurement Packaging

• Reduce Packing within the supply base
• Pasta Reduction of outer layer
• Fruit Vegetable buffet boxes Redesigned by
  supplier
• 30 bigger but 18 less cardboard.
• Ongoing activity to identify further areas for
  improvements

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Sustainable procurement Fairtrade

• The Fairtrade mark is an independent consumer
  label which appears on products as an independent
  guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the
  developing world are getting a better deal.
• Up to 30th September 2006 we supplied 15 tonnes
  of fairtrade products.
• Coffee
• Coffee with Principles Fairtrade, Rainforest
  Alliance Soil Association and Organic
• Sugar
• Tea
• Produce
• Fruit juice
• Chocolate
• Wine

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Sustainable procurement Food - Meat

• Russell Hume supply our business on a national
  basis with fresh meat. Our product list now
  offers 127 different cuts of meat, of which 91
  are UK sourced

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Sustainable procurement Food - Meat Cont..

• We will continue to work closely to take
  advantage of local produce where viable
• Menus will be developed to promote the use of UK
  meat within our business
• Russell Hume are committed to producing products
  that have a minimal effect on the local and
  global environment
• Practical initiatives have been to promote
  reusable trays, reduce recycle cardboard usage,
  use of fluorescent lighting, reduce water and
  energy consumption

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Sustainable procurement Food - Fish

• Promotion of sustainable and under-utilised
  species.
• No species on IUCN Red list of endangered species
• Availability of The Marine Stewardship Council
  (MSC) authorised species to units.
• New Zealand Hoki, Wild Alaskan Salmon and South
  West Handline Mackerel.
• Traceability MJ confirm to BRC higher
  standards and have full traceability of product
  from suppliers that are visited and audited

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Sustainable procurement Food - Cheese

• The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) currently supply
  Sodexhos block and grated cheese requirements
• The Cheese Cellar, the leading independent cheese
  specialist in the UK, is Sodexhos supplier of
  speciality cheeses and provides Sodexho with
  access to an extensive and diverse range of
  British cheese products

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Sustainable procurement Fruit Veg

• Pauleys Fruit Veg supplier to Sodexho
• Wherever possible, when quality is best British
  Produce is used. Imported produce is used for
  availability, consistency, and commerciality
• Poor Growing areas
• Inconsistent Product
• Limited Supply
• Uncommercial
• Unsafe
• Higher carbon footprint
• Provenance, Traceability, Sustainability and
  Technical Assurance is critical
• 43 of product by volume is local to UK.

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Sustainable procurement Local Sourcing

• Sodexho are committed to providing local sourced
  products.
• Recruitment of a local sourcing buyer.
• Implementation of a 3 Level approach within
  Sodexho Prestige-
• Local Suppliers
• 50 mile radius. Produce, grow on site or act as
  hub
• Products sourced from UK national supply network.
• Items not gown by local supplier or required to
  support local growers.
• Products on national agreements negotiated
  through central purchasing e.g. Pasta.

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Sustainable procurement Disposables

• Introduction of sustainable disposables
• Fully compositable paper cup with smaller
  manufacturing energy requirement.
• Paper cup v Plastic cups
• Eco friendly PLA cold drink cups.
• BioWare Salad container. Totally compostable
• Sodexho Delifresh Premier sandwich range made
  from 100 sustainable material.
• Just One dispenser Reduced use of 4 napkins to
  1.86 per person.
• Cost in use products.
• Introduction of Save a cup recycling company
• Collection of paper cups which are incinerated
  for energy
• Recycling of polystyrene filter packs.

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Sustainable procurement Recycling Waste

• Working party put together to provide clients
  with a recycling and waste collection option.
• Move individual desk bins to internal recycling
  system
• Single locations for collections
• Recycling minimises landfill
• Currently operating in a number of our clients

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Summary

• Sustainability is a large and complex area
• No One size fits all
• Unique to each company, although we can learn
  from each other
• Questions?