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Mother's Day dining traffic results in record sales week for SYSCO
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[MAY 14, 2005]
HOUSTON -- SYSCO
Corporation (NYSE:SYY), North America's largest food service
marketer and distributor, announced Thursday that it generated
record sales of $672 million during the week ended May 7. That
figure eclipses the previous record sales week of $636 million,
which was attained in the week preceding Mother's Day last year.
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"Every year since SYSCO began tracking
record sales in 1978 we have achieved record sales in the week
leading up to the Mother's Day holiday," said Richard J. Schnieders,
chairman and chief executive officer of SYSCO. "For Mother's Day
2005, when according to National Restaurant Association data nearly
40 percent of Americans dined out to recognize the special women in
their lives, we once again posted a strong record sales week, with
half of our operating units posting individual record sales weeks
for the week ended May 7, 2005.
"The implementation of business
review and business development strategies at our operating
companies is generating sound results for our customers and for
SYSCO. By providing menu analysis, product recommendations and
strategic suggestions we position our customers and ourselves for
success in our competitive and growing food service industry,"
Schnieders said.
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 SYSCO, the largest food service
marketing and distribution organization in North America, provides
food and related products and services to approximately 400,000
restaurants, health care and educational facilities, lodging
establishments, and other food service customers, generating sales
of $30 billion for calendar year 2004. SYSCO's operations, supported
by approximately 46,000 associates, are located throughout the
United States and Canada and include broad-line food service
distribution companies, specialty produce and custom-cut meat
operations, Asian cuisine food service distributors, hotel supply
operations, and chain restaurant distribution subsidiaries.
For more information about SYSCO,
visit the company's home page at
www.sysco.com.
[SYSCO
Corporation news release]
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