Edenred

Edenred, formerly known as Accor Services, is an international payment service provider. History Foundation and Accor integration (1950s - 2009) Inspired by the original Luncheon Voucher, a concept launched in the United Kingdom in 1954, and the Luncheon Vouchers Company founded by John Hack in 1955, Jacques Borel created a meal voucher on the French market in 1962. A French government decree, passed in 1967, officially recognized the meal voucher as an employee benefit. The concept was launched outside France starting in 1976. Ticket Restaurant and its local variant Ticket Alimentación began spreading to other countries in Europe and Latin America, including Brazil and Mexico. The Ticket Restaurant entity, which had been a subsidiary of Accor since 1983, became Accor Services in 1998. Accor had also acquired Luncheon Vouchers one year prior. Thus the two entities were merged under the new roof of Accor Services.