Cafeteria kickbacks
EXCERPT:
State Education Department records, which are required to chart milk prices, showed that Sodexo passed on the price hike, billing schools 24 cents to 27 cents a half-pint, while milk was available from Aramark, a competing company, for 18 cents to 21 cents a half-pint — a loss to schools and families of more than $100,000 a year.

Sodexho
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Sodexho
A Corporate Profile

By Corporate Watch UK
Completed February 2004
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Corporate Crimes
Privatisation and Public Private 'Pay-offs'
Sodexho and school meals
Sodexho and school meals in the USA
Hospital MealsDe-skilling in the catering sector
Anti-Unionism
Healthcare
Racial discrimination
Asylum
Prisons
Military
EXCERPT:

Apart from helping Multinationals exploit natural resources, Sodexho’s ‘Remote Site Management also help pave the way for the military. In this area, the U.S. Military are their biggest customer. The Center for Public Integrity reveals that Sodexho won a $324,000 contract to provide food and equipment in Afghanistan during 2002.147

In 2001, the US Marine Corps also awarded Sodexho Inc. an $850 million contract to serve meals at 55 Marine Corps mess halls. After an investigation, however, the General Accounting Office (GAO) questioned how Sodexho's proposed price for the contract would cover its cost while still maintaining quality food and service levels. The GAO told the Marines to reopen discussions for the contract. The GAO investigation caused Sodexho's share price to drop 3 percent. Despite the setback, the Marine Corps eventually approved the contract with Sodexho.148

Sodexho also 60 contracts with the UK military.149 See Products/Projects section.

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Accounting Irregularities
Facilitating Environmental Destruction
Conclusion
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Privatisation and Public Private 'Pay