HOUSTON, July 14, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Jeff A. Kimmich has been promoted to assistant vice president, Baugh Supply Chain Cooperative perishables. He currently serves as senior director, supplier adoption, and will assume his new responsibilities effective immediately.
Mr. Kimmich began his career at SYSCO in 1986 as a poultry merchandiser with Compton Foods, the predecessor company to Baugh Supply Chain Cooperative, SYSCO's merchandising organization. From 1996 to 2000 he held various department manager and director positions in SYSCO's beef, pork and poultry departments. In 2000, he was named senior director, beef, poultry and dairy and he assumed his current position in 2003.
Mr. Kimmich was born in St. Louis, Missouri and spent most of his life in Overland Park, Kansas. He earned a bachelor of science degree in animal science from Kansas State University in 1986. He and his wife, Joanne, have two sons and two daughters and live in Katy, Texas.
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.
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