Our awards

Awards and recognition

Sodexo regularly receives awards and recognition for its initiatives in a variety of areas ranging from the services it delivers to human resources and environmental protection.


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Foodservice Cateys

October 2024: Club partners Sodexo Live! and Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club received the innovation award for the introduction of a series of new technology solutions, which is elevating the customer experience for football fans at the club’s American Express Stadium (Amex). 

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Reuters Sustainability Awards

October 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland’s forward-thinking and collaborative net zero supply chain engagement strategy received the Supply Chain Decarbonisation award. 

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Chapter One: Childrens Voice Award

June 2024: Sodexo Stop Hunger’s story-writing competition with charity partner Chapter One was voted the winner of the Children’s Voice Award at the annual Chapter One Partner, Volunteer and School Recognition Awards.

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Footprint Awards 2024

June 2024: Sodexo’s Starting Fresh programme which aims to encourage UK businesses to recruit people with convictions received the Social Impact and Diversity award at these awards for sustainability execellence.

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Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

May 2024: Sodexo Ireland was awarded the Net Zero Carbon Award. The judges said: “Sodexo is ahead of its time with their ambitious commitment to carbon neutrality since 2010 and for clearly defined and significant results, as well as ambitious future Net Zero targets across all elements of their businesses”.

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Springboard Awards For Excellence

April 2024: Sodexo was named Partner of the Year at the Springboard Awards for Excellence 2024 with David Mulcahy, Food Innovation & Sustainability Director, School & Universities, recognised as joint winner for the Chris Beaumont Outstanding Contribution Award.

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Contract Catering Awards

March 2024: The Sodexo Live! team at ACC Liverpool received the Sports, Leisure & Event Catering Award. Sodexo Live! is the catering partner for The ACC Liverpool Group, providing retail catering and hospitality services for the venue all-year round. The ACC Liverpool Group consists of the M&S Bank Arena, an award-winning Convention Centre, and the Exhibition Centre Liverpool.

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ESG Awards

November 2023: Sodexo received a silver award at the ESG Awards in the category for Best ESG campaign or case study to improve the quality of people’s work or their access to work. This was won for the Starting Fresh programme which drives awareness of the practical steps organisations can take to recruit ex-offenders directly from prisons via recruitment days and visits to prison training facilities to meet people achieving relevant qualifications during their sentence.   

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Foodservice Cateys

October 2023: Sodexo Schools took home the Best Use of Technology award for School Food United. The Extra Mile Award went to Sodexo Government for its work providing food services round the clock for the thousands of military and government personnel involved following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the period of official mourning, the state funeral and subsequently the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla

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Northern Ireland Cleaning Awards

June 2023: it was a triple triumph at the 2023 awards with Sodexo colleagues taking home the Cleaning Operative of the Year for both the offices over 100,000 sq.ft and the offices under 100,000 sq.ft as well as winning the Education Cleaning Operative category.

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Footprint Awards 2022

June 2022: Sodexo received the Social Impact & Diversity award for its work to tackle modern slavery and was named runner up in the Stakeholder Engagement category for its Appetite for Action campaign.

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Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards

July 2024: Sodexo Live! won an impressive 11 accolades including the top award for Overall Matchday Hospitality Experience going to the team at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, fighting off tough competition from 28 participating venues across the leagues.

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Workplace Excellence Awards (Ireland)

June 2024: Sodexo Ireland was awarded the title for Excellence in Disability Awareness in the Workplace; Excellence in Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility at these awards which recognise companies and professionals who are engaged in bringing improvements and innovative solutions into the workplace to ensure a positive and thriving environment. 

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Health & Safety Excellence Awards Ireland

May 2024: Sodexo’s all-Island health and safety team won Team of the Year for their work to raise the awareness of changing behaviours and to inspire a mindset of continuous improvement around health, safety and wellbeing to make Sodexo a safer place to work for its people and clients.

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Public Sector Catering Awards

April 2024: The DIO team at headquarters British Forces Cyprus and Sodexo’s contract team in Cyprus were awarded Team of the Year for their collaboration and support in Operation Polar Bear, the largest UK non-combatant evacuation operation involving more than 2,400 British nationals evacuated from war-torn Sudan in the summer of 2023.

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ROSPA Awards

April 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised for its commitment to health and safety with six gold and two silver medals as well as four President’s Awards, given to organisations with ten or more consecutive gold medals.

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FM Awards (Ireland) 

March 2024: Sodexo Ireland won four awards including Total FM Service Provider of the Year, Facilities Management CSR Initiative of the Year, Best People Development in Facilities Management and account manager Michael Galkin won FM Service Professional of the Year. 

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IWFM Impact Awards

October 2023: The Sodexo team at Northumbria University received the Excellence in Customer Experience award for its Residency Living programme which delivers support for students from the start of their university journey through proactive and reactive initiatives to help them thrive

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Waste2Zero Award 2022

November 2022: Sodexo’s Appetite for Action campaign to tackle food waste in the foodservice industry was named the winner in the Best Waste Project Communication and Stakeholder Engagement category.

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Global FM Awards

May 2022: Following its win at the 2021 IWFM awards, the Sodexo/AstraZeneca partnership was put forward for the Global FM awards and received silver for its workplace experience programme.

International recognition

Sodexo is regularly awarded prizes and international recognition for its initiatives in a variety of areas ranging from services to human resources and environmental protection.

Find out more about our international recognition