HOUSTON, Jan. 3, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Henry P. Jolly has been named president and chief executive officer of Sysco Food Services of Kansas City, Inc., a broadline foodservice subsidiary located in Olathe, Kansas. Mr. Jolly, who currently serves as president and chief executive officer of SYSCO's Little Rock, Arkansas operation, will assume his new responsibilities effective immediately. He succeeds current president and chief executive officer James D. Hope, who was recently named group president, customer, as part of a strategic development process announced by SYSCO Corporation on November 21, 2005.
Mr. Jolly, 51, began his SYSCO career in 1983 as a produce specialist for Mid-Central/SYSCO, the predecessor company to SYSCO's Kansas City subsidiary. In 1985 he was named produce manager at SYSCO's Memphis, Tennessee, operation and in 1989 he transferred to the Houston operating company as director of merchandising. Mr. Jolly relocated to Dallas in 1997 to serve as senior vice president of merchandising at SYSCO's Dallas broadline distribution company and in 2000 he was named president of FreshPoint Value Added Services, the fresh repackaging division of FreshPoint, Inc., SYSCO's specialty produce subsidiary. In August, 2001, Mr. Jolly returned to the Kansas City operation as executive vice president and last year he was appointed to his current position at the Little Rock subsidiary.
Mr. Jolly is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended Avila College and earned a bachelor of arts degree in business administration, with a concentration in hotel and restaurant management, in 1978. He and his wife, Penny, have a three-year-old daughter and will relocate to the Kansas City area in the near future.
Sysco Food Services of Kansas City, LLC, supplies food and related products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers throughout the states of Kansas and Missouri.
SYSCO is the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, providing food and related products and services to approximately 390,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers. The company generated sales of $30.3 billion for the fiscal year 2005 that ended July 2, 2005. SYSCO's operations are located throughout the United States and Canada and include broadline companies, specialty produce and custom-cut meat operations, Asian foodservice, hotel supply operations and chain restaurant distribution subsidiaries. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.
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