HOUSTON, June 6, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Masao Nishi has been named assistant vice president, supply chain management. Mr. Nishi, who currently serves as senior director, supply chain services, will assume his new role on July 3, 2005, the start of SYSCO's fiscal year 2006.
Mr. Nishi, 58, joined SYSCO in 2003 as director of supply chain development and was named to his current position in July 2004. Prior to joining SYSCO he held a variety of management positions with firms including Leaseway Transportation, Manugistics, Sabre Group and KPMG Consulting. Mr. Nishi is a graduate of Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering in 1969 and a master of business administration degree in 1974. He and his wife, Wendy, have two adult children and reside in Houston.
SYSCO, the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, provides food and related products and services to approximately 400,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers, generating sales of $30.0 billion for calendar year 2004. SYSCO's operations, supported by approximately 46,000 associates, are located throughout the United States and Canada and include broadline foodservice distribution companies, specialty produce and custom-cut meat operations, Asian cuisine foodservice distributors, hotel supply operations and chain restaurant distribution subsidiaries. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's home page at www.sysco.com.