HOUSTON, Oct. 27, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) today announced that Campbell Soup Company (Camden, NJ) has been named as the company's 2006 Supplier of the Year. The honor was presented at SYSCO's 12th Annual Supplier Recognition Awards Ceremony in Houston. This is the first time that Campbell Soup Company has won SYSCO's Supplier of the Year honor. This year's honor also represents Campbell's seventh appearance as a Top 10 Gold Partner and their ninth year as a member of SYSCO's Top 100 Suppliers.
In addition to Campbell Soup Company, the remaining 2006 Gold Partner suppliers, in order, included McCain Foods USA (Lisle, IL); ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston (Eagle, ID); Prairie Packaging Inc. (Bedford Park, IL); Tyson Foods (Springdale, AK); SCA Tissue North America (South Glens Falls, NY); Lyons Magnus (Fresno, CA); Sugar Foods (Sun Valley, CA); Pilgrim's Pride (Pittsburg, TX); and HJ Heinz (Pittsburgh, PA). The 2006 Supplier Recognition Awards Ceremony recipients were selected from a group of more than 2,000 eligible suppliers located across the world. All finalists were selected based on input from SYSCO's broadline distribution companies in the United States and Canada and the company's corporate merchandising services and supply chain services departments.
Three companies also received SYSCO's Third Annual Heritage Award, presented to the top Women and Minority Owned Businesses that supply SYSCO Brand products. This year's recipients included Gold Medalist Renaissance Man International (Savannah, GA), Silver Medalist Carla's Pasta (South Windsor, CT) and Bronze Medalist Best Maid Cookie Company (River Falls, WI).
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 2006 that ended July 1, 2006, the company generated $32.6 billion in sales. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.
GOLD AWARD WINNERS
1. Campbell Soup Company (Camden, NJ)
2. McCain Foods USA (Lisle, IL)
3. ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston (Eagle, ID)
4. Prairie Packaging, Inc. (Bedford Park, IL)
5. Tyson Foods, Inc. (Springdale, AK)
6. SCA Tissue North America (South Glens Falls, NY)
7. Lyons Magnus (Fresno, CA)
8. Sugar Foods Corporation (Sun Valley, CA)
9. Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (Pittsburg, TX)
10. Heinz North America (Pittsburgh, PA)
SILVER AWARD WINNERS
11. Ventura Foods, LLC (Brea, CA)
12. Appetizer And, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
13. Windsor Foods (Houston, TX)
14. Carla's Pasta, Inc. (South Windsor, CT)
15. Heritage Bag Company (Carrollton, TX)
16. Kellogg's Food Away From Home (Battle Creek, MI)
17. Taylor Farms (Salinas, CA)
18. PanaPesca USA Corporation (Pembroke, MA)
19. Cottage Bakery, Inc. (Lodi, CA)
20. Starbucks Coffee Company (Seattle, WA)
21. Advance Food Company (Enid, OK)
22. Basic American Foods (Walnut Creek, CA)
23. Alpha Baking Company (Chicago, IL)
24. Handgards, Inc. (El Paso, TX)
25. Tyson Fresh Meats (Dakota Dunes, SD)
26. Azar Nut Company (El Paso, TX)
27. Libbey, Inc. (Toledo, OH)
28. Flowers Foods (Thomasville, GA)
29. W. W. Johnson Meat Company (Minneapolis, MN)
30. Allen Canning Company (Siloam Springs, AR)
31. Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc. (Vienna, VA)
32. Country Home Bakers -- Readi-Bake (Oxford, MI)
33. Cargill Incorporated (Wichita, KS)
34. Roth Kase USA, Ltd. (Mendham, NJ)
35. Vanee Foods Company, Inc. (Berkeley, IL)
36. Holten Meat, Inc. (Sauget, IL)
37. Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
38. Phillips Foods, Inc. (Baltimore, MD)
39. BelGioioso Cheese, Inc. (Denmark, WI)
40. The Sterno Group (Des Plaines, IL)
BRONZE AWARD WINNERS
American Foods Group, LLC (Green Bay, WI)
Arista Industries, Inc. (Wilton, CT)
Arthur Schuman, Inc. (Fairfield, NJ)
Atlantic Mills, Inc. (Lakewood, NJ)
Bay Valley Foods (Green Bay, WI)
Best Maid Cookie Company (River Falls, WI)
Boghosian Raisin Packing Co., Inc. (Fowler, CA)
Border Foods, Inc. (Farmers Branch, TX)
Bright Harvest Sweet Potato Company (Charlotte, NC)
Brooklace, Inc. (West Haven, CT)
Burger Maker, Inc. (Carlstadt, NJ)
C. H. Guenther & Son, Inc. (San Antonio, TX)
Camerican International, Inc. (Paramus, NJ)
Caritas Ranch Bar-B-Q, Inc. (Boerne, TX)
Carriage House (St. Louis, MO)
Clear Springs Foods (Buhl, ID)
de Boer Food Importers, Inc. (Sanford, FL)
Dixie Foodservice -- Georgia Pacific (Atlanta, GA)
Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Inc. (Salinas, CA)
East Coast Olive Oil (Utica, NY)
Ecolab (St. Paul, MN)
Expor San Antonio / Unimex (Roswell, GA)
F. W. Bryce, Inc. (Gloucester, MA)
Fiorucci Foods, Inc. (Colonial Heights, VA)
Foremost Farms USA (Baraboo, WI)
Friendship Dairies, Inc. (Jerico, NY)
Georgia-Pacific Corporation (Atlanta, GA)
Grecian Delight Foods, Inc. (Elk Grove Village, IL)
H. P. Hood, LLC (Chelsea, MA)
Hatfield Quality Meats (Hatfield, PA)
InnovAsian Cuisine Enterprises, LLC (Kent, WA)
Italian Rose Garlic Products, Inc. (Riveria Beach, FL)
Jasper Wyman & Son (Topsfield, MA)
John B. Sanfilippo and Son (Elk Grove Village, IL)
Lee Kum Kee (USA), Inc. (City of Industry, CA)
Lower Foods, Inc. (Richmond, UT)
Marcho Farms, Inc. (Harleysville, PA)
Moody Dunbar, Inc. (Johnson City, TN)
Morningstar Foods (Dallas, TX)
National Frozen Foods Corp. (Seattle, WA)
N'Genuity Enterprises Co., Inc. (Scottsdale, AZ)
North Side Foods / Ember Farms (Oakmont, PA)
Northwest Packing (Vancouver, WA)
Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. (Renton, WA)
Oregon Cherry Growers, Inc. (Salem, OR)
Pacific Cheese (Hayward, CA)
Perdue Farms (Salisbury, MD)
Potandon Produce, LLC (Idaho Falls, ID)
Regal Springs Tilapia (Bradenton, FL)
Renaissance Man Food Service, LLC (Savannah, GA)
Rich Products Corporation (Buffalo, NY)
Sara Lee Foodservice (Downers Grove, IL)
Smithfield Beef Group (Green Bay, WI)
Smithfield Foods (Smithfield, VA)
Southern Specialties (Pompano Beach, FL)
Stapleton-Spence Packing Co. (San Jose, CA)
Sunny Fresh Foods (Monticello, MN)
Swift & Company (Greeley, CO)
Trinidad Benham (Denver, CO)
Wells' Dairy, Inc. (Le Mars, IA)
2006 HERITAGE AWARD WINNERS
Gold
Renaissance Man International (Savannah, GA)
Silver
Carla's Pasta (South Windsor, CT)
Bronze
Best Maid Cookie Company (River Falls, WI)
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