HOUSTON, Dec. 8, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY), North America's largest foodservice marketer and distributor, announced today that Aaron I. Katz has been named executive vice president of Sysco Food Services of Dallas, LP, a broadline foodservice distribution subsidiary located in Lewisville, Texas. Mr. Katz will assume his new position effective January 1, 2007.
Mr. Katz, 42, joined SYSCO as corporate counsel in 1999 with primary responsibility for mergers, acquisitions and real estate and in 2004 he was named assistant vice president, legal. When SYSCO unveiled its long-term strategic development process in 2005, Mr. Katz was promoted to his current position as group president, new growth. Prior to joining SYSCO he practiced law for five years at the private law firms of McGlinchey, Stafford, LLC and Hirsch & Westheimer, P.C.
Mr. Katz was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in psychology in 1984. Mr. Katz was awarded his juris doctor in 1994 from the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, located in Fort Worth, Texas. He and his wife, Maryanne, have two sons and a daughter and will relocate to the Dallas area in the near future.
Sysco Food Services of Dallas, LP, markets and distributes a complete line of food and related products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, business and industry locations and other foodservice operators throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and in the northeast Texas and western Louisiana market areas.
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.
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