Sodexo

Belgium
1 million eggs per year
3700 hens per year

Sodexo Belgium now uses exclusively cage-free whole eggs in all Belgian catering contracts, which includes the European Parliament. Through the Good Egg Awards Sodexo Belgium has also committed to going cage-free on all liquid egg by the end of 2008. Sodexo Belgium is part of Sodexo, the third biggest food service operator in Europe.

"Sodexo has an important policy in Sustainable Development, which is called 'Act as a Corporate Citizen.' Sodexo has chosen to go completely cage-free, seeing animal welfare as one of the issues in Sustainable Development."

Hilde Eygemans,
Communications Director,
Sodexo Belgium