New multi-store shopping voucher to transform employee benefits

Set to become the frontrunner of motivational awards and benefits for employees and preferred gifts for saving clubs and the mail order market, SayShopping will shake up the entire incentives market by offering new services and special features currently unavailable.

Sodexho's strategic move into the incentive, motivation and gift industry, estimated to be currently worth over £2 billion in the UK, follows extensive research resulting in a ground-breaking voucher offer to consumers, employees, resellers and retail partners. 

Iain McMath, Managing Director of Sodexho Pass, explains: “Incentivisation is at the heart of our business.  Whether in the UK or worldwide, we know how to improve the quality of life in the workplace.  We have vast expertise in running voucher and salary sacrifice schemes.  That's why earlier this year, we were named 'Childcare Voucher Provider of the Year 2006' by Employee Rewards and Benefits magazine; and hence some of the UK's biggest brands have confidently joined with us to provide a unique motivational tool. We are offering HR and Personnel Managers a safe, secure reward system, one that employees will actively seek out and one that will bring employers a definite return on investment.”

Recipients will find SayShopping to be the most attractive aspirational multi-store shopping voucher on the market. The UK's most instantly recognizable brands from clothing to jewellery to entertainment have committed long-term to the project. There will also be extensive added value, accessed on a special voucher 'club lounge' website, giving extra discounts from retailers and monthly prize draws for hospitality or travel rewards.   Combined with superlative customer care (including a 24-hour helpline), these extras mean that SayShopping will be worth far more than the face value of equivalent rival rewards. 

Sodexho's experience in providing choice-based benefits and gifts means that it can provide companies with the ideal solution to customising their benefits packages and developing both short and long-term motivational programmes.

Alexandre Meerson, Incentives and Motivation Director at Sodexho, states, “Vouchers have a crucial role to play in promoting staff loyalty, job satisfaction, as well as increasing productivity and sales activity.”  He adds, “I would like to invite all HR and Personnel managers to call us and learn how Sodexho can assist them in building their own unique motivational packages.”