Day Appointed Vice President of Supply Chain Management at SYSCO Corporation.

Business Editors

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 2003

SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), North America's largest foodservice marketer and distributor, today announced that William B. Day has been named vice president, supply chain management, a newly created position. Mr. Day, who currently is assistant controller at SYSCO, has been instrumental in leading SYSCO's supply chain strategy for the past 3 years and will be responsible for the company's supply chain and redistribution initiatives in his new position. He will assume his new duties effective June 29, 2003, the beginning of SYSCO's fiscal year 2004.

Thomas E. Lankford, president and chief operating officer of SYSCO, said Mr. Day, 46, began his 20-year SYSCO career as a staff accountant at SYSCO's Memphis, Tenn., operation in 1983. The following year he transferred to the corporate headquarters in Houston as a staff auditor in the operations review department. In 1985 he transferred to SYSCO's Atlanta subsidiary as vice president of finance, a position he held until 1987 when he again relocated to Houston as manager of operations review at SYSCO's corporate office. Mr. Day was named director of operations review in 1990 and in 1991 was promoted to director of systems development -- applications. In that role, he also served as project leader for SYSCO Uniform Systems (SUS), which was a total redevelopment of SYSCO's entire computer system. Upon completion and pilot rollout of the SUS project in 1995, Mr. Day was promoted to controller of SYSCO merchandising services -- financial services and in 1999 he was promoted to his current position.

Mr. Day was born in Humboldt, Tenn., and raised in Memphis and northern Mississippi. He received a bachelor of science degree in 1983, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from Christian Brothers University in Memphis. Mr. Day is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and represents SYSCO Corporation as a member of the Global Supply Chain Forum. He and his wife, Twila, have five children and reside in Richmond, Texas.

SYSCO is the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, generating sales of $24.7 billion for calendar year 2002. The company's 147 distribution locations in the United States and Canada provide food and related products and services to approximately 415,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.