Is Sodexo cage-free?

Not yet in every market. In FY25, September 2024 to August 2025, 86% of the shell and liquid eggs Sodexo sourced across the markets covered by our 2025 cage-free commitment were cage-free by volume: 79% of shell eggs and 90% of liquid eggs, measured in shell-egg-equivalent kilograms and excluding processed products. We had reached an estimated 93% by December 2025, a single-month snapshot rather than a full-year average. Most of our European markets reached 100% cage-free shell eggs ahead of the 2025 deadline. Work remains both within the 2025 commitment perimeter and in markets with extended country-specific roadmaps to 2030 or 2035.*

Our progress by region and category

Sodexo is one of the few companies in its sector to publish cage-free results country by country. This transparency makes both our progress and remaining gaps visible, alongside the actions and roadmaps to address them. Our position by region and category is set out below.

  • Cage-free eggs in Europe

    Most of our European countries had already reached 100% cage-free shell eggs well ahead of the 2025 deadline, so the remaining FY25 effort focused on liquid eggs. France moved from 41% to 100% cage-free liquid eggs, Spain from 0% to 100%, and the United Kingdom from 59% to 98%. In France we have gone beyond the cage-free commitment in specific categories. Since 2024, our shell, liquid and hard-boiled eggs there have been free-range and French in origin, and our omelets, poached eggs and fried eggs have been 100% cage-free and French in origin since January 2025. These figures apply to those categories rather than to every product containing egg: across processed products overall, France reported 76% in FY25.

  • Cage-free eggs in the Americas

    Brazil reached 67.5% cage-free shell eggs in FY25, against 43% in 2023, and an estimated 94.8% at December 2025, with liquid eggs at 100% in the same snapshot. In the United States, our cage-free sourcing at the estimated December 2025 snapshot stood at 82.7% for shell eggs, 92.4% for liquid eggs and 72% for processed eggs, held through the most severe avian influenza outbreak on record, which cost the US flock more than 30 million laying hens during 2025. In Canada, FY25 cage-free sourcing was 96% for shell eggs, 87% for liquid eggs and 74% for processed eggs.

  • Cage-free eggs in Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and Africa

    Australia reached 96.8% cage-free shell eggs in FY25, with liquid egg supply still constrained by limited local availability of cage-free product. Hong Kong SAR reached 100% cage-free shell eggs at the estimated December 2025 snapshot.

Our geographic footprint shapes this picture. We have a substantial presence in markets where cage-free supply remains limited, which means that delivering our commitments involves more than changing what we buy: it also involves helping producers build the capacity, infrastructure and certification needed to expand physical supply. The page on building cage-free supply across markets sets out the initiatives we are running where local supply is still constrained.

MarketShellLiquidProcessedDate
Group, markets under the 2025 commitment94%92%Not reportedDec 2025
Group, markets under the 2025 commitment79%90%Not reportedFY25
France100%100%76%FY25
United Kingdom98%98%72%FY25
Spain100%100%100%FY25
Brazil94.8%100%Not in scopeDec 2025
United States82.7%92.4%72%Dec 2025
Canada96%87%74%FY25
Australia96.8%0%100%FY25

Figures: Sodexo Animal Welfare Performance Report, FY25.

  • India

    In Solapur, western India, we have supported the development of Nature Life, a women-led cage-free egg farming initiative, in partnership with Sulabh International. We provided funding, technical expertise and support for farm infrastructure, farmer training and the certification process, while Sulabh contributed its community network and management support.  The initiative has grown from 30 to 50 farmers, combining improved animal welfare with opportunities for sustainable rural livelihoods. The farm achieved Certified Humane® certification in August 2026. We are scaling our sourcing towards the farm’s full production capacity of 60,000 eggs per month, for use at our sites in western India. Alongside our own supplier development initiatives, we are engaging through the Global Coalition for Animal Welfare (GCAW) and with Global Food Partners (GFP) to help accelerate the development of cage-free egg supply in India.  Bringing buyers and producers together can improve visibility of future demand, identify supply constraints and give producers greater confidence to invest in capacity, infrastructure and certification. Our priority remains increasing physical cage-free sourcing and supporting lasting market transformation.

  • Cage-free eggs in Brazil

    Brazil moved quickly during 2025. Our cage-free shell eggs reached 67.5% in FY25, against 43% in 2023, and an estimated 94.8% at December 2025, with liquid eggs at 100% in the same snapshot. The gain has come from supplier development and from building cage-free volumes into regional distribution.

  • Cage-free eggs in Colombia

    Following a 2024 initiative to promote cage-free eggs and raise client awareness, our cage-free penetration in Colombia increased from 1.6% in FY24 to 11.4% in FY25. Client engagement and supplier development are important parts of our transition approach.

  • Cage-free eggs in Belgium

    Since November 2023, we have sourced 75% of our shell eggs in Belgium, and all of our liquid and hard-boiled eggs there, from producers using the Selegt in-ovo sexing process, which removes the need to cull male chicks. The remaining 25% of shell egg supply cannot transition without greater production scale, so we have opened discussions with peers in the Netherlands and Germany about pooling the volumes needed.

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