HOUSTON, Oct. 4, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Greg D. Bertrand has been named president and chief executive officer of Sysco Food Services of Eastern Wisconsin, LLC, a broadline foodservice distribution subsidiary located in Jackson, Wisconsin. Mr. Bertrand, who currently serves as executive vice president of Sysco Food Services - Chicago, Inc., will assume his new positions effective immediately.
Mr. Bertrand, 41, began his SYSCO career in 1991 as a marketing associate at the company's Chicago operation and advanced to program account executive that same year. He was named program accounts district sales manager in 1993, regional sales manager in 1995 and progressed to general sales manager in 1996. Mr. Bertrand was promoted to vice president of sales in 1997, became senior vice president of sales in 1998 and the following year was appointed to his current position.
Mr. Bertrand was born in Panama City, California, and was raised throughout the midwestern United States before moving to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where he attended the College of Du Page. He and his wife, Darci, have two sons and two daughters and will relocate to the Jackson, Wisconsin community in the near future.
Sysco Food Services of Eastern Wisconsin, LLC, markets and distributes a complete line of food and related products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, business and industry locations and other foodservice customers throughout eastern Wisconsin and portions of Michigan.
SYSCO, the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, provides food and related products and services to approximately 390,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers, generating sales of $30.3 billion for the fiscal year 2005 that ended July 2, 2005. SYSCO's operations, supported by approximately 44,000 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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