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...He worked his way through struggling travel agent MyTravel, catering company Sodexho’s UK business and then Worldpay as it was carved out of RBS....
...The 51-year-old caught the eye of US private equity groups Bain Capital and Advent International when working as head of Europe at catering group Sodexho and they hired him in 2010 to run Brake Bros, the...
...In food and beverages, its competitors are Sodexho and Compass. Sales for Autogrill are strongly linked to changes in the global economy, as people tend to travel when they feel flush....
...Companies interested in moving into the rehabilitation and prisoner reoffending fields include G4S, which is set to take over a public prison, Serco, Sodexho and the Geo Group, the US correctional services...
...Other competitors include catering groups Sodexho of France and Compass of the UK, as well as Securitas, the Swedish security group....
...It expected the market view to shift in favour of competitor Sodexho. Among the mid-caps, Misys retreated 2.4 per cent to 173¾p after a downgrade to “neutral” from Investec....
...They included Adecco, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Groupe Danone, Deloitte, Dexia, L’Oreal, Lonmin, Michelin, Orange, Pearson, Sanofi-Aventis, Sampo Group, and Sodexho....
...Sodexho Alliance led the falling market, plunging 9.8 per cent to €43.42, after the French catering and services group released disappointing third quarter profits, hit by rising commodities prices and...
...Sodexho gained 3.9 per cent to €51.11 after better-than-expected preliminary full-year results from the French catering group....
...Compass , the support services group, was 3.5 per cent lower at 301¼p after French rival Sodexho Alliance filed disappointing full-year figures and warned that sales would slow because of surging commodity...
...Sodexho Alliance climbed 5.6 per cent to €50.55 after first-quarter sales figures from the French food and services group exceeded expectations....
...It was a good week for Sodexho Alliance as strong first-quarter sales figures from the food and services group sent its shares racing up 11.1 per cent to €52.70....
...Sodexho rose 5.9 per cent to €39.20 after Citigroup upgraded the contract caterer from “hold” to “buy” with its target price raised from €33 to €43.5....
...But ING reiterated its “sell” recommendation on the stock, saying the results did little to underpin the current premium rating of Sodexho....
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