HOUSTON, June 22, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that Wilfred J. Cartier III has been named executive vice president at Sysco Food Services of Cincinnati, LLC. Mr. Cartier, who currently serves as senior vice president of sales at that operation, will assume his new position effective July 2, 2006, the beginning of SYSCO's fiscal year 2007.
Mr. Cartier, 45, began his foodservice career in 1988 with SM Flickinger, an upstate New York broadline distributor and a subsidiary of Scrivner, Inc. After SYSCO acquired Scrivner's foodservice operations in 1991, he served as a marketing associate for the company's Albany operation, where he advanced to district sales manager in 1995 and then regional vice president of sales in 1997. Mr. Cartier was promoted to vice president of territory sales at the Albany operation in 2000 before relocating to the Cincinnati company in April of 2005 to serve as vice president of sales. In September of 2005 he was promoted to his current position.
Mr. Cartier was born and raised in Hadley, New York. In 1982 he received his certification in advanced management from the State University of New York College of Technology. He and his wife, Jane, have a grown son and grown daughter and reside in West Chester, Ohio.
Sysco Food Services of Cincinnati, LLC, 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 the southwest Ohio and portions of Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia.
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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