Sodexo
Sodexo, Inc. (www.sodexoUSA.com ) is a leading integrated facilities management services company in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, with $7.7 billion (USD) in annual revenue and 120,000 employees. Sodexo serves more than ten million customers daily in corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government, and remote sites. Sodexo, Inc., headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., is a member of Sodexo Group, and funds all administrative costs for the Sodexo Foundation (www.sodexofoundation.org ), an independent charitable organization that, since its founding in 1999, has made more than $11 million in grants to fight hunger in America.
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12-02-08
Sodexo Expands Corporate Citizenship Team to Provide Client-Focused Sustainability Training
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - December 2, 2008 - Sodexo, a leading food and facilities management services company, has appointed Holly Fowler as senior director of corporate citizenship training and innovation, a move intended to more deeply connect the company's sustainability strat...
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11-17-08
Federal Breakfast Funds Unused by Thousands of U.S. Schools Leaves Millions of Children Ill Prepared to Learn
GAITHERSBURG, MD. - November 17, 2008 - Millions of American children may be attending school without the nutrition necessary to learn despite the fact that Congress has made the funds available, according to researchers at Harvard. A new study sponsored by the Sodexo Fou...
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11-14-08
Sodexo Green Cleaning at Colorado College Wins Kudos
GAITHERSBURG, MD. - November 14, 2008 - Sodexo facilities management experts helped propel Colorado College to a leadership position in sustainable cleaning practices by being named one of only two colleges honored by American School & University magazine, the Gre...
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11-06-08
Sodexo and Communities Nationwide Show They Care With "Cans Across America" Nov. 12
GAITHERSBURG, MD - November 6, 2008 - Imagine a food drive that can mobilize a nationwide network of caring communities to collect nearly 400,000 pounds of food in a single day. Now imagine how that food will fill the sparse shelves at local food banks suffering from slowing...
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09-30-08
Sodexo Advances Corporate Citizenship Programs with Expansion of Leadership Team
GAITHERSBURG, Md., September 30, 2008 - Sodexo, a leading food and facilities management services company, has appointed Anthony Owens as senior director of Corporate Citizenship Partnerships and Communications, a move that expands the company's capabilities for sustainabili...
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09-17-08
Jazzman's (R) Cafe Unveils First-Ever Bird Friendly(R) Coffee from Africa
GAITHERSBURG, MD. - September 17, 2008 - Jazzman's Cafe, the award-winning coffeehouse and bakery cafe from Sodexo's Retail Brand Group, unveiled today a Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center (SMBC), Bird Friendly(R); coffee blend; the first-ever coffee from Africa to have such ...
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08-29-08
Sodexo Helps College Freshmen Watch Their Waistlines Through New Nutrition Program
GAITHERSBURG, MD. - August 29, 2008 - With their attention turning from the carefree days of summer to the pressures of exams and classrooms, students entering college this fall risk adding an inch to their waistlines by sophomore year, according to a recent study in the Jou...
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07-10-08
"Feeding Our Future" Provides 350,000 Summer Lunches to Children in 20 U.S. Cities
GAITHERSBURG, MD. - July 10, 2008 - During the school year 16 million children rely on school breakfast and lunch programs for subsidized and reduced price meals. Each summer, 12 million of these children are at risk of hunger.
To help bridge th...
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06-12-08
A New Generation Joins the Fight Against Hunger in America; Five K-college Students Honored by Sodexo Foundation in Washington, D.C. on June 11
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its commitment to the 35 million Americans who are at risk of hunger, the Sodexo Foundation honored a new generation of activists who are making a difference in the fight against hunger and its root causes. The Foundatio...
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06-12-08
Sodexo Foundation Honors Eight Employee 'Heroes' in the Fight Against Hunger
GAITHERSBURG, Md., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sodexo Foundation, independent charitable arm of Sodexo, Inc., a leading foodservice and facilities management company, today named eight employees as their 2008 "Heroes of Everyday Life," an award now in its ninth year that ho...