PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News:
Sodexo (PARIS:SW) (OTCBB:SDXAY) has signed a worldwide agreement with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) for wild caught fish with the view to:
- promoting MSC-certified seafood across the 80 countries where it operates and
- maximizing awareness and collaboration with both our Clients and Consumers.
By committing to source sustainable fish and seafood, Sodexo will actively contribute to reversing the decline of living marine resources and will help protect marine biodiversity.
Sodexo's Sustainable Seafood Initiative is part of the company's Better Tomorrow Plan1, the company's global roadmap for sustainability and its five-part global seafood strategy to:
- maintain a wide variety of species in Sodexo’s catalogues and menus
- ban species at risk and implement control measures for others
- use eco-standards or labels
- set up supply for sustainable aquaculture
- develop sourcing according to a collaboration with WWF.
Damien Verdier, Sodexo Group Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer said: “Sodexo is the first foodservices company to have a worldwide agreement with MSC for wild caught fish. Under this initiative, Sodexo will continue to work for a collaborative climate to improve fisheries management, promoting awareness of sustainability issues and encouraging suppliers, partners and clients to participate in the MSC program and support sustainable seafood practices.”
Initiatives already taken by Sodexo to promote MSC-certified seafood include:
- becoming the first foodservices company in the Netherlands to obtain the MSC eco-label and certification in 2009;
- certifying 1,000 sites in the UK and Ireland with MSC;
- being assessed by Bureau Veritas Certification and complying with MSC Chain of Custody requirements in France. Sodexo in France sources certified MSC products such as cod (Pacific), pollock (Alaska), hoki (New Zealand) at the clients’ sites where it operates.
Nicolas Guichoux, Regional Director for Europe at the MSC, said: “We are delighted to see one of world’s largest foodservice companies make such a commitment to certified sustainable seafood. Their leadership will contribute to transform the global seafood market to a sustainable basis, which is also MSC’s top priority.”
On the 8th of June 2011, Sodexo and MSC will jointly celebrate the World
Oceans day at the clients’ sites where Sodexo operates to promote public
awareness concerning sustainable fish and seafood.
To learn more on
Sodexo’s strategy and initiatives on the Sustainable Seafood, please
visit www.sodexo.com
About Sodexo
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Daily Life Solutions
Quality
of Life services play an important role in the progress of individuals
and the performance of organizations. Based on this conviction, Sodexo
serves as the strategic partner for companies and institutions that
place a premium on performance and well-being, as it has since Pierre
Bellon founded the company in 1966. Sharing the same passion for
service, Sodexo’s 380,000 employees, in 80 countries design, manage and
deliver an unrivaled range of On-site Service Solutions and Motivation
Solutions. Sodexo has created a new form of service business that
contributes to the economic, social and environmental development of the
communities, regions and countries in which it operates and to the
fulfillment of its employees.
Sodexo key figures (as of August 31, 2010)
Sodexo in the world
15.3 billion euro consolidated revenue
380,000
employees
34,000 sites
50 million consumers
served daily
80 countries
21st largest
employer worldwide
8.4 billion euro market capitalization
(as
of June 7, 2011)
About MSC
MSC mission is to use its eco-label and fishery certification programme to contribute to the health of the world’s oceans:
- by recognising and rewarding sustainable fishing practices
- by influencing the choices people make when buying seafood
- by working with our partners to transform the seafood market to a sustainable basis
International NGO since 1999
Ecolabel for well managed and
sustainable fisheries
Developed the only internationally recognised
FAO consistent ecolabel for wild capture fisheries.
www.msc.org
1 The commitment to source sustainable seafood is one of 14 Better Tomorrow commitments to protect the environment; improve nutrition, health & wellness; and support for local communities.