“Can Sodexo transform its global food services and facility management scale into a platform business by embedding digital benefits, payments, and employee experience solutions for enterprise clients?”
Sodexo was founded as a pure-play food services and facility management company serving corporate, government, healthcare, and education clients globally. Over decades it expanded into employee benefits (meal vouchers, gift cards, incentive programs) creating an embedded finance layer atop its core services. The spinoff of Pluxee (formerly Sodexo Benefits & Rewards Services) in 2023-2024 separated the benefits/voucher business, leaving the core Sodexo focused on food and facilities management with a residual embedded payments and digital voucher stack.
Sodexo was founded by Pierre Bellon and is founded in 1966, headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
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