InvestigationBusiness, Health, Politics How the Food Industry Eats Your Kid’s Lunch A cozy alliance between companies that manufacture processed foods and companies that serve school meals is making students fat and sick. Lucy KomisarThe New York TimesDecember 3, 2011
NewsBusiness School Administrators Censor Criticism of Sodexo At noon on February 17, Jordan Ash, a researcher for the Service Employees International Union, along with Josh Downey, a member of SEIU Local 105, had just finished setting up their exhibit booth at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver… Lucy KomisarApril 21, 2011
ImpactJustice IFUND exposed Sodexo fraud in 2009; company now pays $20 million settlement Last week, the New York Attorney General announced a $20 million settlement with Sodexo, a $20-billion-a-year global leader in the food and facility management industry that runs cafeterias for schools, colleges, hospitals and nursing homes, businesses and even the military. It accused Sodexo of keeping “rebates” (or “kickbacks”) from the companies that provide the chicken, French fries, soft drinks, and other supplies it serves its clients. Lucy KomisarJuly 27, 2010
InvestigationBusiness, Politics Cafeteria Kickbacks Whistleblowers and company documents reveal that global food-service provider Sodexo has taken hundreds of millions of dollars of kickbacks from suppliers. Lucy KomisarIn These TimesMarch 1, 2009