HOUSTON, March 18, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- SYSCO Corporation (NYSE:SYY) announced today that its presentation at the Merrill Lynch Retailing Leaders / Household Products & Cosmetics Conference will be broadcast live via the Internet at 9:25 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, March 22, 2005.
The live webcast can be accessed at www.sysco.com and will feature Richard J. Schnieders, chairman and chief executive officer of SYSCO Corporation. The webcast is anticipated to end by 9:55 a.m. Eastern time and will remain archived on the above web page until Tuesday, April 5.
SYSCO, the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organization in North America, provides food and related products and services to approximately 400,000 restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other foodservice customers, generating sales of $30.0 billion for calendar year 2004. SYSCO's operations, supported by approximately 46,000 associates, are located throughout the United States and Canada and include broadline foodservice distribution companies, specialty produce and custom-cut meat operations, Asian cuisine foodservice distributors, hotel supply operations and chain restaurant distribution subsidiaries. For more information about SYSCO visit the company's Internet home page at www.sysco.com.
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