HOUSTON, June 22, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that John E. Nolan has been named executive vice president at Sysco Food Services of Portland, Inc., a broadline foodservice subsidiary located in Wilsonville, Oregon. Mr. Nolan, who currently serves as senior vice president of merchandising at that operation, will assume his new position effective July 2, 2006, the beginning of SYSCO's fiscal year 2007.
Mr. Nolan, 47, began his SYSCO career in 1996 as a food service specialist at the company's Chicago operation. He relocated to the Portland subsidiary in 1998 as a non-foods merchandising director, advanced to senior director of merchandising in 2001 and next became vice president of merchandising the following year. In 2005 he was promoted to his current position. Prior to joining SYSCO, he worked in the foodservice industry for 14 years in various sales and management positions.
Mr. Nolan was born in Chicago and raised in Oak Forest, Illinois. In 1984 he earned a culinary degree from Washburn Culinary Institute, located in Chicago. He and his wife, Ann, have a son and two daughters and reside in Tigard, Oregon.
Sysco Food Services of Portland, 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 Oregon and portions of Washington.
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 calendar year 2005 the company generated $31.4 billion in sales. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.
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