Adelsberg Named Executive Vice President of Sysco Food Services of Los Angeles Inc.

Business Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004

SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), North America's largest foodservice marketer and distributor, announced today that Saul J. Adelsberg has been named executive vice president of Sysco Food Services of Los Angeles Inc., a SYSCO broadline foodservice subsidiary located in Walnut, Calif. Mr. Adelsberg, who is currently senior vice president of sales and marketing for that company, will assume his new role effective July 4, 2004, the beginning of SYSCO's fiscal year 2005.

Mr. Adelsberg, 44, began his SYSCO career in 1983 as a marketing associate at Sysco Food Services of Los Angeles and was later named district sales manager in 1988. In 1991 he was appointed regional sales manager, progressed to vice president of sales in 1998 and was named to his current position in 2002. Mr. Adelsberg was born in Los Angeles and raised in Sun Valley, Calif. He is a 1983 graduate of California State University - Los Angeles, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration. He and his wife, Dawn, have a son and daughter and reside in Newport Coast, Calif.

Sysco Foodservice of Los Angeles Inc. provides products and services to foodservice operations including restaurants, country clubs, healthcare and educational institutions, lodging establishments, business and industry locations and other foodservice operations throughout Southern California.

SYSCO is the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, providing food and related products and services to approximately 420,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers. The company generated sales of $27.5 billion for calendar year 2003. SYSCO's operations are located throughout the United States and Canada and include broadline companies, specialty produce and custom-cut meat operations, Asian foodservice and hotel supply operations and SYGMA, the company's chain restaurant distribution subsidiary. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.