The Sodexho Company was established in Marseille in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, the present Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the company. This way he used more than 60 years' experience of the Bellon family in catering services on luxury transatlantic steamships and entertainment boats. Since 1971 the company expands successfully on the foreign markets.

The Sodexho Alliance operates in 76 countries of the world, has 310,000 employees in almost 24,000 sites and realises turnover of 12 billion Euro.