Company Profile for SYSCO Corporation.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) SYSCO SYSCO Systems and Services Company is the largest foodservice The foodservice (or food service) industry (US English; catering industry in British English) encompasses those places, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal eaten away from home. marketing and distribution organization in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , generating sales of $24.7 billion for calendar year 2002. The company's 147 distribution locations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Canada provide food and related products and services to approximately 415,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging Lodging or holiday accommodation is a type of accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place to store luggage and being able to take a establishments and other foodservice customers. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the home page at www.sysco.com.
Company: SYSCO Corporation
Headquarters Address: 1390 Enclave Parkway
Houston, Texas 77077
Main Telephone: 281/584-1390
Website: www.sysco.com
Ticker: SYY(NYSE)
Type of Organization: Public
Industry: Wholesale - Foodservice
Earnings Release Dates: 2nd Quarter: January 27, 2003
3rd Quarter: April 28, 2003
4th Quarter: August 11, 2003
Key Executives: CEO: Richard Schnieders
COO: Thomas Lankford
Exec. VP, Finance & Administration:
John Stubblefield
Investor Relations
Contact: John Palizza
Phone: 281/584-1308
Email: palizza.john@corp.sysco.com
Public Relations
Contact: Toni Spigelmyer
Phone: 281/584-1458
Email: spigelmyer.toni@corp.sysco.com
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