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...And Citigroup warms to both Sodexo and Restaurant Group....
...“We think it will take time to resolve the problems behind this profit warning, primarily an organic growth issue that is specific to Sodexo....
...Mia Mends CEO, benefits & rewards services, US, Sodexo 94. Michael Lopez Director, global inclusion and diversity, Alcoa Inc 95....
...This article has been modified since first publication to correct the name of Michel Landel, chief executive of Sodexo....
...Many of North America’s biggest seafood purchasers, including Walmart, Sodexo and the US government, are rethinking their environmental sustainability standards under intense pressure from the Alaskan fishing...
...Ms Rotelli believes this is “a sharp and unjustified discount” to peers Compass and Sodexo, which trade at 9.5 times ebitda....
...There are just three private companies already running prisons in the UK – G4S, Serco and Sodexo – although Mitie, the FTSE250 company, is also bidding in partnership with the Prison Service to run some...
...Sodexo, the French company which runs prisons for the UK government, has its origins in catering....
...They were already comfortably ahead of those at Sodexo, its French rival....
...Former Sodexo numbers woman Rachel Osborne will be joining in July....
...ISS’s closest publicly listed rivals, such as Compass Group, Sodexo, Serco and G4S, trade on about 10 times annual operating profits....
...The new company’s closest competitors are Sodexo and Compass, the catering services groups, and Mastercard and Visa in payments services....
...In Frankfurt, Lufthansa rose 1.4 per cent to €12.47 while Paris-listed food services group Sodexo gained 1.8 per cent to €44.92....
...Compass Group rose 2.2 per cent to 552½p after Citigroup started coverage with a “buy” rating based on its “defensive growth” outside Europe and higher margins than peer Sodexo....
...Sodexo, the French catering and services group, advanced 2.1 per cent to €45.18....
...Compass rose 0.7 per cent to 526½p after rival Sodexo raised earnings guidance....
...This reflected hopes that it could take a contract with the US Marine Corps from closest rival Sodexo, after Congressional auditors were brought in to investigate the quality and value offered by Sodexo,...
...Mr Landel aims to increase the proportion of women in the top 250 leadership group at Sodexo from 18 per cent today to 22 per cent by 2012....
...Mr Hawkes left school at 16 to train as a chef before transforming Gardner Merchant – known as Sodexo since 2000 – into one of the world’s leading catering suppliers....
...Trading on a prospective price/earnings ratio of 10.8 times for 2009, it should outperform rival Sodexo, which trades on a prospective p/e ratio of 13.5x and is due to report on April 23....
...French catering management group Sodexo slipped 3.3 per cent to €38.06 on disappointment over fiscal first- half sales....
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