But he retains other positions, including the post of non-executive director at Compass Group, a food services company.
In each country, Sodexho garnered for itself the No. 1 or No. 2 position, running neck-and-neck with the U.K.-based Compass Group.
In each country, Sodexho garnered for itself the number one or number two position, running neck-and-neck with U.K.-based Compass Group.
But he retains both his knighthood and other positions, including the post of non-executive director at Compass Group, a food services company.
But its global rivals for this outsourcing business, the U.K.'s Compass Group and France's Sodexho Alliance, each have at least 40% more sales.
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby has asked for his knighthood to be removed and has resigned as a non-executive director of Compass Group.
BBC: Ex-HBOS chief Sir James Crosby asks to return knighthood
Like most gains in the sector, these are new outsourcing clients, rather than coming out of the hides of big rivals Compass Group, which is also doing well, and Sodexho Alliance.
And Compass Group, one of the biggest school food providers in the UK, says its tests have found between 5% and 30% horse DNA in burgers it sold in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
One measure of the reach of his campaign is found in the income statement of Compass Group, the world's largest catering company, which posted a 1% drop in food sales to British schools in its past fiscal year.
He's ceased to be an adviser to a private equity firm, and given up a directorship at Compass catering group, while also giving up his cancer charity role.
The commission was set up by pressure group Compass, with backing from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, to investigate boardroom pay.
Only two caterers have the capacity for such work Compass and Sodehxo Alliance, a French group.
Compass chairman Neal Lawson told the BBC the group's proposal was "to try and find a way out of this mess".
The real standard-bearer of the left, however, will probably be Jon Cruddas, a backbencher supported by Compass, a well-organised Labour pressure group.
In March Compass won a contract with Philips, a Dutch electronics group, to feed, eventually, all 265, 000 staff in 60 countries.
In an open letter at the weekend, the chief executive of consumer group Which? said Mr Browne must "transform a sector that has lost its moral compass".
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