Sustainability for the future: Sodexo Austria sets new standards with Green Care Professional
Sodexo Austria, with 3,900 employees, offers services to improve the quality of life. In the fields of building cleaning, catering and fully integrated facilities management, Sodexo in Austria is among the largest service providers in the market.
For Managing Director Michael Freitag of Sodexo Service Solutions Austria GmbH, sustainability plays an especially important role as it is firmly embedded in the company’s culture and DNA.
„… In Werner & Mertz Professional Vertriebs GmbH, we have found a partner that shares our values and helps us to achieve our sustainability goals.“
Michael Freitag
Managing Director, Sodexo Service Solutions Austria GmbH
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“We are committed to acting with sustainability in mind at all times. With our Better Tomorrow Plan, we pursue ambitious goals for CO2 reduction, ESG reporting and EU Taxonomy. Other topics such as CSR, diversity and equal treatment are also important to us”, says Freitag.
“As a company, we have to take responsibility and have the right partner at our side”, he says. “In Werner & Mertz Professional Vertriebs GmbH, we have found a partner that shares our values and helps us to achieve our sustainability goals.”
Sodexo knows that the subject of sustainability is becoming ever more important. Requests for bids from healthcare providers and hospitals want cleaning and care products that are suitable for sustainable procurement and have the relevant certificates as proof.
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„The resources that we conserve by using Green Care Professional products can be documented and calculated.“
Martin Roscher
Regional Manager Healthcare Lower Austria and Vienna, Sodexo Service Solutions Austria GmbH
“The resources that we conserve by using Green Care Professional products can be documented and calculated”, says Martin Roscher, Regional Manager Healthcare Lower Austria and Vienna, at Sodexo. “With the Green Care Performance Calculator, the avoidance of CO2, plastic and crude oil can be verified and transparently identified for our sites. The resource savings certificate makes our sustainability goals visible, measurable and traceable.“
Resource savings certificate for Sodexo Austria
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The high-performance, integrally sustainable products from the Green Care Professional brand are manufactured exclusively in the EMAS-certified factories in Germany and Hallein, Austria, in compliance with the highest quality standards.
Sodexo appreciates the sustainable products and something more. “We have excellent cooperation with Werner & Mertz Professional Vertriebs GmbH and its experts on site”, says Roscher. “They support us in our everyday work, with training, for example. They come to us in the buildings we clean and instruct our employees in the proper handling of the cleaning products. That helps us enormously.”
Sustainability is not a trend, but a necessary step in protecting the environment and contributing to a better future for upcoming generations.
About Sodexo
Founded in Marseille in 1996 by Pierre Bellon, Sodexo today is the world’s leader in services that improve the quality of everyday life for everyone. Nearly 422,000 employees serve 100 million people in 53 countries daily. Sodexo has more than 30 years of experience in the Austrian market. Sodexo Service Solutions Austria GmbH employs about 3,900 in Austria whose service mentality delights almost 475,000 people every day in some 1,400 businesses, including commercial operations, government agencies and healthcare facilities.