HOUSTON, May 2, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Suzi M. Monzingo has been named president and chief executive officer at Sysco Food Services of Central California, Inc., a broadline foodservice distribution subsidiary located in Modesto. Mrs. Monzingo, who currently serves as executive vice president of that operation, will assume her new position effective immediately. She succeeds retiring president and chief executive officer John Torza.
Mrs. Monzingo, 45, first joined the Modesto operation in 1993 as a staff accountant and progressed through a variety of management positions before being named controller in 1995. She was appointed director of finance the following year and advanced to vice president of finance in 1997. In 2003 she was promoted to senior vice president of finance and she was appointed to her current position in July 2005.
Mrs. Monzingo was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Bakersfield. She earned her bachelor's degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1983 and in 1987 was awarded a master's degree in management from Troy State University. She and her husband, Mike, have a son and a daughter and reside in Oakdale, California.
Sysco Food Services of Central California, Inc. provides products and services to foodservice operations including restaurants, country clubs, healthcare and educational institutions, business and industry locations, lodging establishments, multi-unit chain accounts and other foodservice operations throughout central California and the San Joaquin Valley.
SYSCO is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. For the fiscal year 2005 that ended July 2, 2005, the company generated $30.3 billion in sales. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.