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Quilter, a leading UK-focused full-service wealth manager, providing advice-led investment solutions and investment platform services, has extended Sodexo’s contract to deliver food and FM services across its UK workplaces for an additional three years.
Sodexo’s corporate services business has been delivering a range of workplace services including food, hospitality, technical services, and other soft services to its 18 sites across the UK and Ireland since its appointment as Quilter’s IFM partner in 2020. Prior to that, Quilter had used a number of different providers for the services.
Sodexo will continue to enhance the workplace for Quilter’s employees wherever they work. Food is an essential ingredient in creating an attractive, happy and productive workplace, and Sodexo’s Modern Recipe and Kitchen Works serve healthy, nutritious and sustainable food in inspiring places for Quilter’s employees. The offering allows them to take time away from their desks to relax, eat and connect with colleagues.
Quilter and Sodexo have a shared commitment to sustainability and, as a service provider, Sodexo’s services fall within Quilter’s scope 3 GHG emissions. Sodexo believes collaboration in efforts to reduce carbon emissions is key and will work with Quilter to help it achieve its net zero targets. Sodexo is already utilising its Waste Watch food waste management programme at Quilter sites delivering food services.
As part of the new three-year contract Sodexo is deploying a self-delivered agile mobile engineering service for planned and reactive maintenance on areas including electrical, HVAC, building fabric and water management, managed by Sodexo’s digital intelligence hub in Salford, Greater Manchester. This new service utilises Sodexo’s state-of-the-art technology and subject matter experts to deliver seamless building management interventions identifying imminent issues so that they can be addressed before they become critical, preventing downtime and cutting costs.
Lynsey O’Keefe, CEO Corporate Services, Sodexo UK & Ireland said: “Over the last five years we have worked closely with Quilter to seamlessly integrate and deliver optimised food and FM services, successfully elevating the employee experience at its offices across the country with our unique hospitality-focused approach. We are excited about this next step in our partnership and are looking forward to collaborating with Quilter to drive new ways of thinking, which will enhance the workplace experience, drive sustainable practices and enable Quilter and its people to focus on their core business operations.”
Maxine Hulme, Operations Director at Quilter said: “Sodexo has made some notable improvements to our workspaces over the last five years, including some remarkable initiatives in hospitality and fine dining. We look forward to continuing our partnership over the next three years.”
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