Food and Drug Administration Awards Sodexho $5 Million Contract as New Foodservice Provider at Consolidated Campus in Maryland

GAITHERSBURG, Md.-December 7, 2006- Sodexho (NYSE:SDX) announced today that the company's Government Services Division was awarded an eight-year contract to provide food service operations to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the White Oak Complex in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Under this new agreement, Sodexho will operate a cafeteria and a coffee bar/barista featuring Starbucks coffee at the White Oak Complex with plans to open an additional cafeteria as the FDA campus expands. Currently, there are about 2,000 employees at the office, but the FDA projects that the complex will hold 8,800 employees after a planned expansion.

“We are proud to be a partner with the U.S. government in providing exceptional products and services to its employees, and are pleased to provide them with high quality and popular brands such as Starbucks,” said Greg Verone, president of Sodexho's Government Services Division. “This new contract is a great opportunity for us to make every day a better day for employees as the FDA campus continues to grow.”

The new agreement with the FDA is one of several government-related contracts Sodexho won during 2006. Other new agreements of note include a contract with the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Fla. to provide catering services at the facility's Mustin Beach Officers' Club at Lighthouse Point and a retail dining contract at NASA's White Sands Testing Facility in Las Cruces, N.M.

Sodexho, Inc. (www.sodexhoUSA.com) is the leading provider of integrated food and facilities management in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with $6.7 billion in annual revenue and 125,000+ employees. Sodexho offers innovative outsourcing solutions in food service, housekeeping, groundskeeping, plant operations and maintenance, asset management, and laundry services to 6,000 corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government and remote sites throughout North America. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md, Sodexho proudly serves as the official food service provider for the U.S. Marine Corps.