HOUSTON, Oct. 19, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) today announced that Campbell Soup Company (Camden, NJ) has been named as SYSCO's 2007 Supplier of the Year. The award -- won by Campbell's for the second year in a row -- was presented at SYSCO's 13th Annual Supplier Recognition Awards Ceremony in Houston. This year's honor also represents Campbell's eighth appearance as a Top 10 Gold Partner and their tenth year as a Top 100 Supplier honoree.
In addition to Campbell Soup Company, the additional 2007 Gold Partner suppliers, in order, include Advance Food Company (Oklahoma City, OK); Ventura Foods, LLC (Brea, CA); Lyons Magnus (Fresno, CA); ConAgra-Lamb Weston (Eagle, ID); McCormick & Company, Inc.(Hunt Valley, MD); SCA Tissue North America (Philadelphia, PA); Prairie Packaging Inc. (Chicago, IL); Tyson Foods, Inc. - Poultry (Springdale, AR); and Heinz North America (Pittsburgh, PA). The 2007 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 key business performance metrics with critical evaluation by SYSCO's broadline distribution companies, SYSCO's corporate Merchandising, Sourcing, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain Services departments.
Three companies also received SYSCO's Fourth Annual Heritage Award, which is presented to the top Women and Minority Owned Businesses that supply SYSCO Brand products. This year's recipients include Gold Medalist Carla's Pasta, Inc. (South Windsor, CT), Silver Medalist ABCO Cleaning Products (Miami, FL) and Bronze Medalist Windsor Foods (Houston, TX).
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 fiscal year 2007 the company generated over $35 billion in sales. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's website at www.sysco.com.
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GOLD AWARD WINNERS
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1. Campbell Soup Company (Camden, NJ)
2. Advance Food Company (Oklahoma City, OK)
3. Ventura Foods, LLC (Brea, CA)
4. Lyons Magnus (Fresno, CA)
5. ConAgra - Lamb Weston (Eagle, ID)
6. McCormick & Company, Inc. (Hunt Valley, MD)
7. SCA Tissue North America (Philadelphia, PA)
8. Prairie Packaging, Inc. (Chicago, IL)
9. Tyson Foods, Inc. - Poultry (Springdale, AR)
10. Heinz North America (Pittsburgh, PA)
SILVER AWARD WINNERS
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11. Tyson Foods, Inc. - Prepared & Proteins (Springdale, AR)
12. McCain Foods USA (Lisle, IL)
13. General Mills Foodservice (Minneapolis, MN)
14. PACTIV Corporation (Lake Forest, IL)
15. H.J. Heinz Co.-Menu Inspirations (Pittsburgh, PA)
16. Sara Lee Foodservice (Downers Grove, IL)
17. Rich Products Corporation (Buffalo, NY)
18. Heritage Bag Company (Carrollton, TX)
19. Pilgrim's Pride (Pittsburg, TX)
20. Windsor Foods (Houston, TX)
21. Cottage Bakery, Inc. (Lodi, CA)
22. Basic American Foods (Walnut Creek, CA)
23. Carla's Pasta, Inc. (South Windsor, CT)
24. American Italian Pasta Company (Kansas City, MO)
25. Cargill Dressing Sauces and Oils (Wayzata, MN)
26. Starbucks Coffee Company (Seattle, WA)
27. Michael Foods, Inc. (Minnetonka, MN)
28. Pacific Coast Producers (Lodi, CA)
29. ConAgra Foodservice (Omaha, NE)
30. 20/20 Produce (Paul, ID)
31. Azar Nut Company (El Paso, TX)
32. Fresherized Foods (Fort Worth, TX)
33. Mitsui Foods, Inc. (Norwood, NJ)
34. Italian Rose Gourmet Food Products (Riviera Beach, FL)
35. Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (Kansas City, MO)
36. The Schwan Food Company (Marshall, MN)
37. Sugar Foods Corporation (Sun Valley, CA)
38. Otis Spunkmeyer (San Leandro, CA)
39. C.H.Guenther & Son, Inc. (San Antonio, TX)
40. Ecolab (St. Paul, MN)
BRONZE AWARD WINNERS
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ABCO Cleaning Products (Miami, FL)
Alpha Baking Company (Chicago, IL)
Archer Daniels Midland (Decatur, IL)
Arista Industries, Inc. (Wilton, CT)
Arthur Schuman, Inc. (Fairfield, NJ)
Bake'n Joy Foods, Inc. (North Andover, MA)
BelGioioso Cheese (Denmark, WI)
Best Maid Cookie Company (River Falls, WI)
Border Foods, Inc. (Farmers Branch, TX)
Brooklace, Inc. (West Haven, CT)
Camerican International, Inc. (Paramus, NJ)
Cargill Pork (Wayzata, MN)
The Cheesecake Factory Bakery, Incorporated (Calabasas Hills, CA)
Darik Enterprises Inc. (Woodside, NY)
Dean Foods - Morningstar (Dallas, TX)
Dole Packaged Foods Company (Westlake Village, CA)
Domino Foods, Inc. (Iselin, NJ)
Eggs America, Inc. (Flatonia, TX)
Flowers Foods (Thomasville, GA)
Foremost Farms USA (Baraboo, WI)
Furmano Foods (Northumberland, PA)
Georgia-Pacific Foodservice Solutions (Atlanta, GA)
Golden Heritage Foods, LLC (Hillsboro, KS)
Grecian Delight Foods, Inc. (Elk Grove Village, IL)
American Foods Group-Green Bay Dressed Beef (Alexandria, MN)
Handguards Inc. (El Paso, TX)
Handy Wacks Corp. (Sparta, MI)
Holten Meat Company (Sauget, IL)
House of Raeford (Raeford, NC)
Kellogg's Food Away From Home (Elmhurst, IL)
Kerry, Inc. (Waukesha, WI)
Knouse Foods, Inc. (Peach Glen, PA)
Lakeside Foods, Inc. (Manitowoc, WI)
Libbey Inc. (Toledo, OH)
Marcho Farms (Harleysville, PA)
Moody Dunbar, Inc. (Johnson City, TN)
National Beef Packing Company (Kansas City, MO)
National Frozen Foods Corp. (Seattle, WA)
National Deli (Miami, FL)
Northwest Packing Co. (Vancouver, WA)
Orca Bay Seafoods, Inc. (Renton, WA)
PanaPesca USA Corporation (Pembroke, MA)
Pennant Foods (Itasaca, IL)
Potandon Produce L.L.C. (Idaho Falls, ID)
Producers Rice Mill, Inc. (Stuttgart, AR)
French's Foodservice (Parsippany, NJ)
Reser's Food Service (Beaverton, OR)
Rotella's Italian Bakery, Inc. (LaVista, NE)
Sanderson Farms, Inc. (Laurel, MS)
Schreiber Foods, Inc. (Green Bay, WI)
Seneca Foods Corporation (Janesville, WI)
Sun Orchard, Inc. (Tempe, AZ)
Sun Rich Fresh Foods Inc. (Richmond, BC, Canada)
Superior Foods Companies (Watsonville, CA)
Trident Seafoods Corporation (Seattle, WA)
Truitt Brothers (Salem, OR)
Vanee Foods Company, Inc. (Berkeley, IL)
Vie de France Yamazaki, Inc. (Vienna, VA)
Vitality Foodservice, Inc. (Tampa, FL)
W.W. Johnson Meat Company (Minneapolis, MN)
2007 HERITAGE AWARD WINNERS
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Gold
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Carla's Pasta, Inc. (South Windsor, CT)
Silver
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ABCO Cleaning Products (Miami, FL)
Bronze
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Windsor Foods (Houston, TX)