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COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SODEXHO ALLIANCE SA
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001169715
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-MANAGEMENT SERVICES [8741]
IRS NUMBER: 000000000
FISCAL YEAR END: 0831
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FORM TYPE: 6-K
SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC
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BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 3 AVENUE NEWTON
STREET 2: 78180 MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX
CITY: FRANCE
STATE:
ZIP: 00000
BUSINESS PHONE: 0113313085
6-K
FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
June 13, 2003
SODEXHO ALLIANCE SA
3, avenue Newton
78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux
France
(Address of principal executive offices)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports
under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F X Form 40-F
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes No X
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connection with Rule 12g3-2(b):
Contents: Press Release
EXHIBIT LIST
Exhibit Description
99.1 Press Release
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
SODEXHO ALLIANCE SA
By: /s/ Sian Herbert-Jones
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Name: Sian Herbert-Jones
Title: Chief Financial Officer
Date: June 13, 2003
APPOINTMENT OF
TWO PRESIDENTS AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICERS
Sodexho Alliance (codes : Euronext : EXHO.PA / NYSE : SDX)
Paris, June 13, 2003 - Albert George, who was appointed President and Chief
Operating Officer on February 20, 2000, has resigned after suffering a
cardiovascular stroke earlier this year.
In response to this situation, and to continue driving higher earnings and
organic growth in revenues, we are strengthening our human resources and
confiding in our current executives:
Jean-Michel Dhenain and Michel Landel, currently Vice Presidents of the
Executive Committee, have been appointed Presidents and Chief Operating
Officer by the Board of Directors at its meeting on 12 June. The appointments
were proposed by Pierre Bellon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, after
consultation with the Selection Committee.
Sian Herbert-Jones, Chief Financial Officer, Elisabeth Carpentier, Senior
Vice President Corporate Human Resources, and Clodine Pincemin, Senior Vice
President Corporate Communication, are also members of the Executive
Committee, which will now include :
Dick Macedonia, currently President of the Health Care Services Division in
the United States, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Sodexho in
North America and Vincent Hillenmeyer, Senior Vice President, Strategic
Planning.
Jean-Michel Dhenain, based in Paris, France, remains Chief Executive Officer
for Continental Europe. He will also supervise South America and the
Asia-Australia region.
Michel Landel, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in the United States, remains
Chief Executive Officer of Sodexho, Inc. in North America. He will also
supervise the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as the Remote Site
Management activity.
In addition, the Operational Committee, which was created in October 2000 and
comprises the members of the Executive Committee plus the Group's senior
executives, has been strengthened with two new members:
George Chavel, the newly appointed President of the Health Care Services
Division in the United States, and Rick Floore, Internal Audit Director. The
Committee now has 19 members.
BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Michel Dhenain
President and Chief Operating Officer, Sodexho Alliance
Jean-Michel Dhenain has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer
of Sodexho Alliance, the world's leading Food and Management Services company,
alongside Michel Landel. He also continues to serve as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer for Continental Europe, while supervising South America and
the Asia-Australia region. He was a key participant in Sodexho's development
in France, helping it to achieve market leadership in the mid-nineties, and
has played a major role in strengthening the Group's positions in Continental
Europe, a market that today accounts for 29% of consolidated revenues.
Mr. Dhenain joined Sodexho in 1971, when he began what began his exemplary
career by managing a number of front-line operations. He successively served
as Regional Director, Sales Director and Departmental Director, before setting
up the Sodexho France Hospitals and Healthcare subsidiary and becoming its
Managing Director in 1984. Around this time, he returned from a trip to the
United States with a breakthrough business strategy that would be widely
imitated. His idea was to differentiate Sodexho from the competition and gain
market share by developing multi-service solutions. Under his impetus, French
healthcare revenues grew sevenfold in ten years. This success propelled him to
the head of the Sodexho France Schools-Universities subsidiary in 1991, and in
1993, he was named Managing Director of Sodexho France.
In 1998, he was given responsibility for Continental Europe and became a
member of the Sodexho Alliance Executive Committee, before being appointed
Committee Vice President in February 2000.
Throughout his career, Mr. Dhenain has paid special attention to food safety.
As the global leader in food and management services, Sodexho is extremely
sensitive to public health concerns. As early as 1999, Mr. Dhenain created a
Scientific Council in France, whose members included researchers and experts
from a wide range of food safety disciplines.
Mr. Dhenain is also responsible for purchasing, an area in which he has
implemented a strict, disciplined quality process based on the traceability of
supplies.
Mr. Dhenain is a founding member of the Health Chair at the Ecole Superieure
des Sciences-Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) in Cergy-Pontoise.
Born in 1944, Mr. Dhenain is married and has one child. As a lover of sports
and classical music, he likes to go for nature walks accompanied by the
strains of Johann Sebastian Bach and serves as President of the Chamber Opera
of France, based in Menton. He is also an accomplished oenologist, a Chevalier
in the Order des Coteaux de Champagne and a member of the Brotherhood of the
Chevaliers du Tastevin.
BIOGRAPHY
Michel Landel
President and Chief Operating Officer, Sodexho Alliance
Michel Landel has been appointed President and Chief Operating Officer of
Sodexho Alliance, the world's leading Food and Management Services company,
alongside Jean-Michel Dhenain.
He continues to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Sodexho in North America,
while taking on responsibility for the United Kingdom and Ireland, and the
Remote Site Management business. Mr. Landel is the person behind the Group's
remarkable expansion in North America, where it now generates half its
consolidated revenues and employs 130,000 people.
Mr. Landel joined Sodexho in 1984 as Chief Operating Manager for Eastern and
North Africa. His exceptional career achievements reflect his extraordinary
ability to motivate teams. He increased sales and earnings in the units he has
managed. By 1986, he had been promoted president of the Group's entire remote
site operations in Africa, and in 1989, he took charge of the Group's North
American operations. Under his management, in ten years Sodexho became the
fourth largest Food and Management Services provider in North America, which
represents nearly one third of the potential global market.
In 1998, Mr. Landel helped bring about the merger between Sodexho and Marriott
Management Services, the leading food services company in North America. He
actively participated in the creation of Sodexho Marriott Services (now
Sodexho, Inc.), an alliance whose success enhanced Sodexho's global leadership
and made it America's number one Food and Management Services provider. Today,
Sodexho, Inc. ranks first in the education, healthcare and senior services
segments, which offer the market's highest growth potential. Positions in
these segments were further strengthened with the acquisition of Wood Dining
Services in 2001.
In February 2000, Mr. Landel was appointed Vice-President of the Sodexho
Alliance Executive Committee.
Sodexho, Inc. ranks among the 50 largest employers in the United States and
has been recognized on several occasions for its commitment to equal
opportunity. It was included in Latina Style's 2002 list of the 50 best
companies for Hispanic women to work for in the United States and ranked 20th
in The Black Collegian's list of the 100 top employers of the 2002 class of
African-American graduates.
Mr. Landel also initiated the launch and deployment of the S.T.O.P. Hunger
program to combat malnutrition, particularly among the more than 10 million
undernourished children in the United States. Sodexho believes it has a moral
obligation to fight hunger and intends to extend the program to its main
countries of operation.
In 1997, Mr. Landel won the industrys coveted "Golden Chain Award" from the
Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators association. Sodexho, Inc. was recognized as
one of the best food services providers by Food Services Management Magazine
in 2001. In 2002, he received Restaurants & Institutions' distinguished "Ivy
Award" for developing restaurant-style brand concepts. The Penn State Hotel
and Restaurant Society also voted him Hospitality Executive of the Year.
Born in 1951, Michel Landel is married and has three children. He likes to
travel and to relax in the kitchen preparing delicious dishes for his family
and friends.
About Sodexho Alliance
Founded in Marseille in 1966 by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Pierre
Bellon, Sodexho Alliance is the world's leading provider of food and
management services. With more than 315,000 employees on 24,700 sites in
74 countries, Sodexho Alliance reported consolidated sales of 12.6 billion
euros for the fiscal year that ended on August 31, 2002. The Sodexho Alliance
share has been listed since 1983 on the Euronext Paris Bourse, where its market
value totals 3.6 billion euros. The Sodexho Alliance share has been listed
since April 3, 2002, on the New York Stock Exchange.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of
the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
include, but are not limited to, statements regarding anticipated future
events and financial performance with respect to our operations.
Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not
relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include words like
"believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimated" , "project " , "plan" "pro
forma," and "intend" or future or conditional verbs such as "will,"
"would," or "may." Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from expected results include, but are not limited to, those set
forth in our Registration Statement on Form 20-F, as filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), the competitive environment in which we operate,
changes in general economic conditions and changes in the French, American
and/or global financial and/or capital markets. Forward-looking statements
represent management's views as of the date they are made, and we assume no
obligation to update any forward-looking statements for actual events
occurring after that date. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on our
forward-looking statements.
Press Relations : Jerome Chambin
Tel : + 33 (1) 30 85 74 18 - Fax : + 33 (1) 30 85 52 32
E-mail: jerome.chambin@sodexhoalliance.com
Investors Relations : Jean-Jacques Vironda
Tel : + 33 (1) 30 85 29 39 - Fax : +33 (1) 30 85 50 05
E-mail : jean-jacques.vironda@sodexhoalliance.com