Phil Hooper

  • New health campaign

    A BRAND NEW campaign exposing the “hidden nasties” in everyday foods and helping people become “food smart” has been launched by the Department of Health.   The campaign, which comes on the back of new research showing that UK consumers…

  • Companies Rewarded for Healthy Best Practices In First-Ever Foodservice ‘Health & Vitality Honours’

    A NUMBER of organisations sufficiently advanced in the health, nutrition and vitality arena will be rewarded for their efforts with recognition in the first-ever “Health & Vitality Honours” – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for…

  • FootprintComment: Salt reduction is the road to a healthier lifestyle

    PHIL HOOPER, Corporate Affairs Director of Sodexo UK & Ireland comments exclusively to FoodserviceFootprint.com on the importance of a commitment to salt reduction.                           Reducing the amount of…

  • Information, Information, Information

    AS The Nation gets chubbier, more and more companies are pledging to provide facts about how (un)healthy their food is. But do diners need or want them?   Albert Einstein once said that “the devil has put a penalty on…

  • Sodexo takes closer look at supply chain

    SODEXO HAS enhanced its membership of Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, to improve supply chain transparency and ensure its ethical and sustainable standards are being met.     Sedex, a supply chain management tool, helps companies to identify, manage…

  • NEW ‘Honours’ Reward Healthy Best Practice Within Foodservice

    First ever ‘Health & Vitality Honours’ launched – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice.                         Open for…

  • Footprint catches up with Sodexo’s Phil Hooper on the Responsibility Deal

    THE GOVERNMENT’S Public Health Responsibility Deal is one year old, and campaigners believe it is failing. A report by Which? last week claimed that voluntary agreements do not work and is now calling for legislation on mandatory calorie labelling out…

  • Embedding CSR

    If any operation has sustainability built into its DNA, it’s Sodexo. Phil Hooper explains the company’s strategy to Foodservice Footprint It has been said that sustainability runs through the DNA of Sodexo. Arguably, the company is the absolute ‘pin up’…