
18.10.2021, 14:51
Sodexo Live! Awarded Paris 2024 Catering Contract
Sodexo Live! has been announced as an official catering partner to the athletes’ village at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.
For a five-week period, the Sodexo Group subsidiary will deploy 1,000 people at the Village to serve 40,000 daily meals for 14,850 athletes from 206 Olympic delegations and 182 Paralympic delegations.
Launched in September to leverage the group’s catering expertise within the sports, events and hospitality sectors, Sodexo Live! will be tasked with contributing to the performance of athletes during the games by offering which is appropriate to the requirements of elite sport, creating a memorable experience that matches the uniqueness of the moment for participating athletes by working with celebrated chefs, Akrame Benallal, Amandine Chaignot and Alexandre Mazzia, and helping the organisers of Paris 2024 attain the event’s environmental and social targets.
The company will additionally provide catering services to visitors to some fifteen venues during the Paris 2024 competition.
Nathalie Bellon-Szabo, Global CEO of Sodexo Live!, comments:Â “Sodexo Live! is immensely proud to actively participate in this event, which will be exceptional for Paris and the whole of France. All of the teams at Sodexo Live! are now working hard to prepare a unique and unforgettable experience for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Our commitments to social progress and the environment will enable us to work alongside Paris 2024 and rise to the challenge of creating Games with a positive impact.”
Tony Estanguet, President Paris 2024, adds: “I am delighted that the Sodexo Group is joining the Paris 2024 adventure. We chose Sodexo Live! for their expertise, which will enable us to provide the athletes with optimal catering services. Because for them, the experience of the Games is also about food. Eating well is of course essential for performance, but it’s also about the enjoyment of meeting up to enjoy a meal with other athletes.
“We and the Sodexo Group, which is staunchly committed to tackling CSR issues, share the aim of delivering socially and environmentally responsible Games. And that goal starts on our plates – through the products we choose and how we recruit catering staff.”