SODEXO LIMITED
Company number 00842846 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Sodexo Limited is a financially healthy, cash-rich UK head-office and services entity (grade B+) with £1,437m of FY2025 turnover, a stable 4.5% operating margin, £64.6m of operating profit, £218.9m of cash and no going-concern, compliance or solvency concerns, underpinned by its Sodexo S.A. parentage. The two persistent symptoms to treat are a thin margin that is highly sensitive to cost inflation and a third consecutive year of declining net assets (£244.7m to £237.2m), meaning profit is not accumulating as reserves. The prognosis is stable with low risk of acute distress, but the priority actions are margin protection, rebuilding the equity cushion, and a full reconciliation of the balance sheet's ~£984m of liabilities.
Shareholders' funds
£237,174
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1965-03-26
- Employees
- 25861 (2025 accounts · was 33011 in 2024)
- Registered office
- One, Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HA
- Postcode
- WC1B 5HA
- Capital
- 22,379,146 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 2 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-28
- Next due by
- 2027-04-11
Nature of business (SIC)
- 70100 Activities of head offices
Officers 5 current · 78 resigned
Group structure 38 subsidiaries
Controlled by SODEXO HOLDINGS LIMITED — since 2017-03-28
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Public contracts won 18
£1,483,324,194 total awarded value where published.
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Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2026 (period to 2025-08-31) — 6 years on the registry.
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z6143637 (Tier 3), registered since 2001.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
9.79%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · around the middle of the pack for parity
Contact details
- Website
- sodexo.co.uk
- Phone
- 0305706985
Food services and facilities management across healthcare, education, defence, government and business. Sodexo UK serves over one million meals every day.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| SODEXHO LIMITED | 2008-01-23 |
| GARDNER MERCHANT LIMITED | 2000-02-22 |
Previous registered addresses 11
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| SOLAR HOUSE KINGS WAY, STEVENAGE, SG1 2UA | 2011-06-01 |
| SOLAR HOUSE, STEVENAGE LEISURE PARK, KINGS WAY STEVENAGE, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG1 2UA | 2008-08-15 |
| SOLAR HOUSE, STEVENAGE LEISURE PARK, KINGS WAY STEVENAGE, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG1 2UA | 2008-08-15 |
| THE MERCHANT CENTRE, 1 NEW STREET SQUARE, LONDON, EC4A 3BF | 2004-12-03 |
| KENLEY HOUSE, KENLEY LANE, KENLEY, SURREY CR8 5ED | 2004-02-24 |
| KENLEY HOUSE, KENLEY LANE, KENLEY, SURREY CR8 5ED | 1993-02-16 |
| NLEY HOUSE, KENLEY LANE, KENLEY, SURREY CR8 5ED | 1993-02-16 |
| 166 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, WC1V 6TT | 1993-02-09 |
| 6 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, WC1V 6TT | 1993-02-09 |
| SHERWOOD STREET, LONDON, W1V 7RD | 1987-11-06 |
| 12 SHERWOOD STREET, LONDON, W1V 7RD | 1987-11-06 |
Among its peers
The largest employer
of 133 similar companies in WC, with 25861 staff. Among the oldest 25% of its local peers.
Competitors London
This company ranks 121 among activities of head offices in London.
Property in England & Wales 30 titles
- Leasehold
- 30
- Most recent registration
- 2025-05-01
- Where
- Greater Manchester (11), Greater London (6), North Yorkshire (5)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ND221513 | Northumberland | Leasehold | 2025-05-01 | — |
| ND221514 | Northumberland | Leasehold | 2025-05-01 | — |
| TGL632859 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2025-03-12 | — |
| BB36645 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-11-05 | — |
| TGL530148 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2024-10-30 | — |
| MS706851 | Merseyside | Leasehold | 2023-06-15 | — |
| MAN341243 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| MAN341244 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| MAN341248 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| MAN341251 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| MAN308986 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2018-02-13 | — |
| NT535928 | Nottinghamshire | Leasehold | 2018-01-31 | — |
| SYK658025 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2018-01-31 | — |
| SYK658026 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2018-01-31 | — |
| MAN298887 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2017-09-08 | — |
| TGL458134 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2016-10-13 | — |
| NGL941026 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2014-03-10 | — |
| MAN218306 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2013-12-03 | — |
| NYK409847 | North Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2013-10-17 | — |
| NYK409858 | North Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2013-10-17 | — |
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