Sysco

Sysco Corporation, founded in 1969 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a leading distributor of food and related products primarily for the foodservice industry across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and beyond. The company operates through several segments, including U.S. Foodservice Operations and International Foodservice Operations. Sysco's extensive product range includes frozen foods, fresh meats and seafood, dairy products, canned goods, beverages, and fresh produce, as well as various non-food items such as disposable paper products, kitchen equipment, and cleaning supplies. Its diverse customer base encompasses restaurants, hospitals, schools, hotels, and catering services, reflecting its integral role in the food-away-from-home sector. As of mid-2020, Sysco operated 326 distribution facilities, underscoring its extensive reach and capacity to serve a wide array of foodservice venues.

Joel Grade

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Director of Investor Relations

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Coordinator for Communications, Investor Relations, Travel and Treasury

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Senior Director of Investor Relations

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Senior Director, Investor Relations and External Communications

28 past transactions

Greco and Sons

Acquisition in 2021
Greco & Sons, Inc. is a food distribution company based in Bartlett, Illinois, specializing in the manufacture, import, and distribution of fresh meats and poultry products primarily for restaurants and pizzerias. In addition to its core offerings of meats, the company provides a diverse range of products including imported Italian specialties, deli items such as lunch meats and specialty cheeses, various oils, dry and frozen pasta, fresh produce, dairy products, canned goods, gourmet desserts, and disposables. Greco & Sons serves customers across multiple states, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, California, and Las Vegas. Established in 1990, the company operates facilities in several states, ensuring a broad distribution network for its extensive product line.

Upsys

Acquisition in 2019
UPSYS AB is a high-tech IT consulting company based in Uppsala, Sweden, founded in 1990. The firm specializes in OpenSource and MySQL technologies, with a strong emphasis on Big Data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and embedded systems. As of October 2019, UPSYS operates as a subsidiary of Sysco AS. The company provides innovative solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies to meet the evolving needs of its clients.
J. Kings Food Service Professionals, Inc. distributes food products in New York. The company also provides concept and design services in the areas of concept, design, menu, logos, equipment, furnishings, staff training, and culinary support to the food service industry. In addition, its services include storage, processing, marketing, sales, logistics, vacuum cooling, and more; and controlled temperature storage and distribution solutions, as well as a local and long distance transportation and order fulfillment. J. Kings Food Service Professionals, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is based in Holtsville, New York. It has a buying office in California. As of August 12, 2019, J. Kings Food Service Professionals, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sysco Corporation.

J & M Wholesale Meats

Acquisition in 2019
J & M Wholesale Meats is a foodservice distributor who specializes in center of the plate products and serving foodservice customers.

Waugh Foods

Acquisition in 2019
Waugh Foods, Inc. is a food service distributor based in East Peoria, Illinois, providing a diverse range of products to customers throughout Central Illinois. The company offers over 30,000 national brands, including fresh meats, dairy products, frozen foods, canned goods, and beverages. Additionally, Waugh Foods supplies various non-food items such as paper products and disposables, catering to the comprehensive needs of food service operations. Founded in 1948 and originally known as Waugh Frozen Food Company, the company rebranded in 1996. As of January 31, 2019, Waugh Foods operates as a subsidiary of Sysco Corporation.

Doerle Food Service

Acquisition in 2018
Doerle Food Service distributes grocery, meats, produce, paper, chemicals, and table top supplies. It offers beef, pork, poultry, fish, and seafood products; dry groceries; dairy products; and beverages. The company serves family and white tablecloth restaurants, fast food multi-unit chains, healthcare institutions, casinos, schools, government contracts, the oil and gas industry, and the energy and marine industry in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Supplies on the Fly

Acquisition in 2016
Supplies on the Fly allows Sysco customers to place orders for more than 170,000 products online or by telephone via an e-commerce platform that is fully integrated with Sysco’s business information systems.

North Star Seafood

Acquisition in 2016
North Star Seafood, LLC is a wholesale distribution company based in Pompano Beach, Florida, specializing in the import, supply, and export of a wide variety of fish and seafood products. Established in 1992, the company offers an extensive product range that includes fin fish, crabs, lobsters, specialty Asian products, shrimp, hors d'oeuvres, scallops, fresh shellfish, squid, octopus, smoked seafood, and kosher meals. North Star Seafood serves a diverse clientele, including restaurants, hotels, resorts, country clubs, cruise lines, and regional distributors across the United States, the Caribbean, and internationally. As of 2016, North Star Seafood operates as a subsidiary of Sysco Corporation, enhancing its capabilities in the seafood distribution market.

Brake Bros

Acquisition in 2016
are the leading food wholesalers in the UK and are the catering and food suppliers of choice for thousands of businesses in the catering industry.

Buchy Food Service

Acquisition in 2013
Buchy Food Service operates as a full-service broadline distributor.

Central Seafood Co.

Acquisition in 2013
Central Seafood Co. operates as a seafood supplier. It offers fresh seafood products, such as fresh and smoked fish, scallops, live lobsters, oysters, mussels, squids, fresh soft shell crabs, crabmeat, and clams.

Appert's Foodservice

Acquisition in 2012
Appert's Foodservice is a broadline distributor and foodservice processor servicing restaurants and institutions in Greater Minnesota.

Distagro

Acquisition in 2012
Distagro, the foodservice division for Montreal, Quebec-based grocery retailer, Metro Richelieu Inc.

Crossgar Foodservice

Acquisition in 2012
Crossgar Foodservice is a leading foodservice supplier on the island of Ireland.

European Imports

Acquisition in 2012
European Imports is a company that imports and distributes food products.

Pallas Foods

Acquisition in 2009
Since the early 1980’s Pallas Foods has evolved into one of the leading food distributors on the island of Ireland under the leadership of the Geary Family. Pallas Foods now part of Sysco since March 2009 have a team of over 550 people dedicated to provide excellent quality product and services to its customers. They currently service over 7,000 customers from their 2014 portfolio of more than 8,500 products. They are unique in that they offer fresh, frozen, ambient and non-food products, in addition to an extensive wine list from their Private Vines Collection. They offer next day delivery, island wide in their own delivery fleet to ensure that the product arrives as expected by the customer. They operate from their central warehouse in Newcastle West, their Foodservice Centre in Dublin and regional distribution and delivery centres across the island of Ireland.

Desert Meats & Provisions

Acquisition in 2006
Desert Meats & Provisions was founded in 1978 by Harlon Unruh operates as an independent specialty meat distributor in the Las Vegas and southern Nevada foodservice markets.

International Food Group

Acquisition in 2004
International Food Group delivers expertise in product selection, services and value chain capabilities to customers in over 80 countries across the globe. Every day, US based restaurant chains ranging from fine dining to quick service rely on Sysco IFG to help deliver their brand and unique customer experience across the globe. With over 700 customers, we also export Sysco’s brands of products to numerous distributors in many of the countries in which we do business.

Colorado Boxed Beef Co - Specialty meat-cutting division

Acquisition in 2003
Colorado Boxed Beef Co - Specialty meat-cutting division is a protein supplier in the southeast but has proudly become one of the suppliers of protein products in the U.S.

Asian Foods

Acquisition in 2002
Asian Foods Inc., North America's largest Asian foodservice distribution company.

Serca Foodservice

Acquisition in 2001
SERCA, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is one of the largest operators in the North American foodservice industry.

Guest Supply

Acquisition in 2001
Sysco Guest Supply is the world leader in providing products that enhance the hotel guest experience in nearly 25,000 hotels in 88 countries. For over three decades, hoteliers have depended on their unique combination of industry experience, service, manufacturing, global sourcing, distribution, and product design and development. As the only global provider to the hotel and lodging industry, Sysco Guest Supply maintains relationships with leading hotels around the world. Manufacturing, distribution, and purchasing resources are strategically located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, ensuring superior product selection and availability, as well as quick and efficient response to meet virtually every need. Sysco Guest Supply is also a single-source supplier to many leading hotel brands, offering a comprehensive selection of more than 30,000 exceptional products. The convenience of one point of contact not only ensures quality and consistency, it streamlines selection and ordering processes and frees up valuable time for decision makers.

Freedman Meats

Acquisition in 2001
Freedman has been serving high quality protein to the Texas market and beyond, since the 1930’s. The business has grown from a single truck grocery business to one of the premier steak cutting operations in the country. The Freedman Companies encompass Freedman Meats, Texas Meat Purveyors and Buckhead Beef Denver, operating five processing facilities, providing direct services to eight major metropolitan areas: Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, Harlingen, San Antonio, Denver and Oklahoma City and supplying Sysco Operating Companies nationwide.

A.M. Briggs

Acquisition in 2000
A.M. Briggs is the leading center-of-the-plate specialist in the greater Washington DC Metropolitan area. A.M. Briggs has been providing Washington DC’s finest restaurants, hotels, country clubs and executive dining rooms with the highest quality meat, game, poultry and seafood since 1926. Located just minutes from downtown, we are able to provide daily deliveries to Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Baltimore, Annapolis and Fredrick. Our facility is USDA inspected and HACCP certified to ensure our customers receive the safest, highest quality products. A.M. Briggs has been a licensed Certified Angus Beef distributor since 1996.

Freshpoint

Acquisition in 2000
FreshPoint is North America’s largest exclusively owned produce distributor. They have the line authority to hold their companies accountable to a high level of customer service. With unmatched fresh produce, knowledge and experience, FreshPoint provides today’s chefs with the ingredients to create tomorrow’s culinary success.

Doughtie's Foods, Inc.

Acquisition in 1999
Doughtie's Foods, Inc. sells and distributes food products. Doughtie's Foods offers eggs, produce, flour, sugar, restaurant supplies, and cooking equipment.

Buckhead Beef Co.

Acquisition in 1999
Buckhead Beef Co. is engaged in the procurement, cutting, packaging, and delivery of meat. Buckhead Beef Co. offers beef, veal, lamb, pork, poultry, seafood, game, and other food products.

Newport Meat Company

Acquisition in 1999
Since 1975, when Newport was founded, their focus has always been on supplying meats of the highest quality and trim standards. Most companies handle meat as a commodity, basing their buying decisions on the lowest price. At Newport, they learned long ago that the true value of their products is based upon yield, appearance and most importantly, taste. They understand the benchmark of their success has and will always be the satisfaction of guests when they taste their meat.
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