Talk:Sysco
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New figures for infobox
Hello! I'm a Sysco employee with a conflict of interest, so I'm using the edit request system to ask for updates to the article.
I noticed that the financial and employee figures in the infobox are from 2017. I've got the company's FY 2023 information, via our latest 10-K. They are as follows:
- Revenue: $76.3 billion
- Operating income: $3 billion
- Net income: $1.8 billion
- Total assets: $22.8 billion
- Total equity: $2 billion
- Number of employees: 72,000[1]
References
- ^ "Form 10-K". SEC.gov. July 1, 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
If someone could update the infobox with these new figures, I'd very much appreciate it. Cheers! KM at Sysco (talk) 19:14, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
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Improving the History section
Hello! I noticed the History section isn't in great shape. It lacks information about the company before 1980 and doesn't have many citations. I've composed a new section draft that, among other things:
- Covers the company's founding and early history
- Adds citations to citation-free passages
- Deletes passages I couldn't find sourcing for
- Adds new information about notable acquisitions the company has made over the past ~20 years
- Fixes an error in the passage about electrifying the fleet (we're supposed to hit that target by 2030, not 2026)
Here is my section draft, with complete references:
History draft
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Founding and early historyIn 1966, Zero Foods owner John Baugh initiated discussions with the leaders of eight other food distribution companies about the prospect of forming one large corporation.[1] The nine companies agreed to terms and formed Sysco in May of 1969. At the time of the merger, the total sales of the nine companies were approximately $115 million.[2] In March 1970, Sysco held its initial public offering.[3] Sysco made its first acquisition in 1970, purchasing Arrow Foods Distributor.[4] Between 1970 and 1980, the company continued to grow through the acquisition of 25 small food distributors.[5] It also expanded its trucking fleet and constructed refrigerated warehouses for food storage.[2] In 1980, Sysco recorded $1.2 billion in annual revenue. The following year, it moved its stock from the American Stock Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange.[5] In 1985, Sysco was described in a New York Times report as "the nation's leading food service marketing and distribution company."[6] Acquisitions and expansionIn 1988, Sysco achieved nationwide coverage through its acquisition of the food distributor CFS Continental.[7] By 1996, Sysco was the third-largest company in Houston and had over 30,000 employees.[8] Sysco acquired Newport Meat in 1999, which at the time had sales of approximately $100 million per year. This was the company's first acquisition of a California company.[9] Between 1995 and 2000, Sysco's annual sales increased from $12 billion to $19 billion.[7] In 2002, Sysco expanded into the Canadian market by purchasing SERCA Foodservices for $278 million. SERCA's business was similar to Sysco's, with the Canadian company supplying food products and foodservice supplies to approximately 80,000 customers at the time of the acquisition.[10] The following year, Sysco acquired Asian Foods, which was then the largest Asian food distribution company in North America.[11][2] In 2009, Sysco made its first acquisition outside of North America, buying the Irish food distributor Pallas Foods.[12] Further expanding its footprint in Ireland, Sysco purchased the food distributor Crossgar Foodservice for an undisclosed amount in 2012.[13][14] On December 9, 2013, Sysco announced they were planning to acquire US Foods, their closest competitor, for a total of $3.5 billion.[15] However, on June 24, 2015, US Federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the combined Sysco-US Foods would control 75% of the U.S. food service industry and would stifle competition.[16] As a result, on June 29, 2015, Sysco terminated its merger with US Foods.[17] In February 2016, Sysco announced that it was purchasing the Brakes Group for $3.1 billion. At the time, Brakes was serving about 50,000 restaurants, hotels, and schools across Europe.[18] In May 2021, Sysco acquired Greco and Sons, a distributor of Italian specialty food products.[19] Later that year, Sysco purchased the fresh produce distributor The Coastal Companies for the purpose of supplementing both its fleet and its specialty produce business.[20] In October 2023, Sysco announced that it was purchasing Edward Don & Company, a food service supplies and equipment distributor.[21] This acquisition gave the company additional office and distribution space, as well as the ability to design and build kitchens for its customers.[22] References
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I know I'm putting forward quite a lot of text and references for editors to look through. Thanks so much to whoever takes the time to review. If there's any way I can help the process go more smoothly, please let me know. Cheers! KM at Sysco (talk) 20:41, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- User:Urban Versis 32: Last year, you added a tag that designated this article as "in need of reorganization" Would you mind looking at my request above? No pressure, just seeing if you're interested. Thanks! KM at Sysco (talk) 18:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @KM at Sysco! It looks like since I added the tag, a good number of contributions had been made to the article to help with this, but I'll take a look at your draft! (Although I don't have much time to contribute this week, I certainly will by next week at the latest.) Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 23:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much, User:Urban Versis 32! I'll await your review. KM at Sysco (talk) 22:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @KM! I made a few edits to your draft. It seems very good from an NPOV standpoint. Most of my edits were geared toward making the draft seem more like an encyclopedic article. Feel free to review my edits, and don't hesitate to reach out for any questions! I'd recommend getting 1 or 2 more editors to review your drafts and make changes as they see fit, and then we can look at incorporating your draft into the main article! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 13:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- User:Urban Versis 32: Thanks so much for reviewing and revising the draft! All the changes you made make sense to me. One question: did you mean to make the Acquisitions and expansion subsection all one paragraph or is that just a formatting error? I assume it's the latter but I didn't want to mess with your work.
- Regardless, I'll now start looking for other editors who might want to review. I'm going to start with User:Coconutshrimp, since they made some solid edits to the History last month. If they're not interested, I may take this request to a relevant WikiProject or two. But I'll first give Coconutshrimp at least a few days to consider. KM at Sysco (talk) 20:43, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- @KM, I'm happy to help! I think that subsection you mentioned was a formatting error. Once again, please don't hesitate to reach out for any questions you may have about the article or Wikipedia in general! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 04:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- I do have one complaint - many sentences start with "In [month] [year], ..." This problem is frequently cited as proseline, and it can be corrected by providing more context to the events in sequence rather than simply stating that they occurred; this may be tough in this case because it is basically a series of disconnected events in time. Still, a very good replacement for what is currently in the article. Reconrabbit 14:06, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the feedback, User:Reconrabbit! I see your point about the proseline issue. I'm going to include User:Urban Versis 32 here, so they're aware of what's happening.
- I can dig back into the sourcing to see if I can pull out a few details that break up the monotonous structure a bit. I'm just hesitant to touch copy that Versis has rewritten, and want to make sure they're okay with it. I'll give them some time to respond here. Alternatively, if either Versis or Reconrabbit want to tackle the problem without my input, please go ahead. You two are more expert in these matters than I am.
- I'll check back next week and see where things lie. If I get the go-ahead from Versis or they're simply busy with other stuff, I'll try to fix the proseline issue myself. Thanks again for taking the time to review my draft, Reconrabbit. I really appreciate it. KM at Sysco (talk) 16:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- @KM Yeah, go ahead! I have no problem with you modifying the edits I made to your draft -- it's your draft, after all. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 19:47, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- I've made a few edits to the draft above. I didn't touch the first subsection because I think it's less proseline-y than the second one. In Acquisitions and expansion, I added details about the SERCA acquisition and recharacterized the Crossgar Foodservice acquisition as part of a broader expansion into the Irish market. (To do this, I had to find a new source, which is now included in the references.) I also cut a sentence about fleet electrification, since it doesn't really fit with everything else and contains some speculation about what the company plans to do rather than what it has already done.
- I hope the draft is now suitable for the article, but I'll let User:Urban Versis 32 and/or User:Reconrabbit determine that. Happy to field any feedback that comes my way. Thanks! KM at Sysco (talk) 20:05, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Done, old acquisitions sections removed as redundant. I've also added paragraph breaks back in. Thank you for your patience! Rusalkii (talk) 22:50, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
- @KM Yeah, go ahead! I have no problem with you modifying the edits I made to your draft -- it's your draft, after all. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 19:47, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @KM! I made a few edits to your draft. It seems very good from an NPOV standpoint. Most of my edits were geared toward making the draft seem more like an encyclopedic article. Feel free to review my edits, and don't hesitate to reach out for any questions! I'd recommend getting 1 or 2 more editors to review your drafts and make changes as they see fit, and then we can look at incorporating your draft into the main article! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 13:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much, User:Urban Versis 32! I'll await your review. KM at Sysco (talk) 22:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @KM at Sysco! It looks like since I added the tag, a good number of contributions had been made to the article to help with this, but I'll take a look at your draft! (Although I don't have much time to contribute this week, I certainly will by next week at the latest.) Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 23:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
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Replacing Subsidiaries with Products and services
Hello! I've assembled a Products and services section for this article that covers the rather broad scope of Sysco's business, which includes various lines of food products, kitchen goods supplies, and advising services. I was thinking this draft could replace Subsidiaries, since that section doesn't have any citations.
Here is my draft, with complete references:
Products and services draft
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Sysco sells and distributes food and non-food products to businesses that serve food, such as restaurants, healthcare facilities, sports stadiums, and schools.[1][2] These goods include ingredients such as meats and produce, as well as frozen foods and prepared meals.[3][4] Sysco also provides its customers with dining room supplies, kitchen equipment, and eating utensils.[2][5] Within its broader business, Sysco provides customers goods and expertise through its specialty divisions. For example, its FreshPoint division supplies produce to customers.[6] In 2021, Sysco acquired Greco & Sons, an importer and distributor of Italian food products. Greco & Sons operates as an independent division within the company.[7] Sysco offers custom kitchen building for its restaurant customers.[8] The company also aids these customers with tasks such as menu design and the development of marketing campaigns.[2][9] Sysco owns Sygma, a subsidiary it founded in January 1984.[10] Sygma is a food service supplier specializing in large chain restaurants. As of February 2023, Sygma was operating 15 distribution centers and delivering goods to 13,000 chain franchises throughout the United States.[11] Since 2009, Sysco has worked with the World Wildlife Fund to set targets on the volume of seafood it procures from sustainable fisheries.[12] In January 2021, Sysco announced plans to increase purchases of sustainable seafood, particularly from fisheries certified by the Marine Stewardship Council and the Aquaculture Stewardship Council.[13] Sysco's One Planet. One Table. assortment of products, which includes approximately 3,000 food items backed by at least one of 20 sustainability certifications and standards, launched in November 2023.[14][15] In December 2021, Sysco announced its intention to cut its carbon footprint by 27.5% by 2030.[16] In May 2022, Sysco committed to the purchase of 800 Freightliner eCascadia electric trucks.[17] The first vehicles in this order were delivered in November 2022.[18] In August 2022, Sysco's UK division launched its first electric delivery truck.[19] In April 2023, the company announced the construction of an electric vehicle hub in Riverside, California.[20] As of September 2024, the company operates 130 heavy-duty electric tractors across the US, Canada, Sweden, and the UK.[21][22] In February 2024, the company's UK division partnered with the foodservice technology firm Nutritics to develop a system that helps food businesses quantify the carbon footprint of the food they serve.[23] References
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I'll now step aside and let independent editors weigh in. If the draft needs to be adjusted in any way, please let me know and I'll see what I can do to improve it. Thanks! KM at Sysco (talk) 22:10, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Tagging in User:Urban Versis 32, to see if they would like to take a look at this request. No pressure, UV32! If you've got the time, great. If not, I'm sure another editor will come along to review eventually. 170.85.100.174 (talk) 20:07, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @KM and IP user, glad to be working here again! Unfortunately I won't be able to work on this until sometime tomorrow or this weekend, but I'll be sure to take a look at this! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 23:18, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- @KM, I made some more edits to the draft. It was already pretty good, and I made some changes, but I wanted to ping @Reconrabbit to see if they would also like to take a look at the draft, since we worked together last time. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 03:15, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Looks very straightforward to me now and I can find little to take fault with it. "One Planet. One Table." is an unusual name for a product line/assortment in that it inserts punctuation in a potentially surprising way but I can't see an elegant way to avoid that. Thanks for pulling me in - it has been a while since I worked in edit requests but KM's are great! Will you be applying the changes @Urban Versis 32? Reconrabbit 05:47, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Reconrabbit Yes, I just wanted to get feedback from another editor first before applying the updates. The draft seems to be good, so I'll update the article! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 15:56, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Looks very straightforward to me now and I can find little to take fault with it. "One Planet. One Table." is an unusual name for a product line/assortment in that it inserts punctuation in a potentially surprising way but I can't see an elegant way to avoid that. Thanks for pulling me in - it has been a while since I worked in edit requests but KM's are great! Will you be applying the changes @Urban Versis 32? Reconrabbit 05:47, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- @KM, I'm working on some readability and NPOV edits to the article. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 23:40, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
- No rush, User:Urban Versis 32! I appreciate your taking the time. (And in case it wasn't obvious, that IP editor who originally pinged you was me. Apologies, I forgot to log in.) If I can make the review process easier in any way, just let me know! KM at Sysco (talk) 21:06, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
- Ah, that makes more sense! I'll continue to edit the draft and give you updates as I go! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 17:41, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
- No rush, User:Urban Versis 32! I appreciate your taking the time. (And in case it wasn't obvious, that IP editor who originally pinged you was me. Apologies, I forgot to log in.) If I can make the review process easier in any way, just let me know! KM at Sysco (talk) 21:06, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
- @KM, I've put the edits through to the main article. I wanted to thank you for going through the COI process to improve the article. It was a pleasure working with you and maybe we can work together sometime in the future! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 16:05, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks so much for working with me on this, User:Urban Versis 32! And I appreciate User:Reconrabbit too, for providing a second set of eyes. KM at Sysco (talk) 22:27, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Done Closing this as completed. If this was a mistake, please remove the
ansparameter from the template. Encoded Talk 💬 16:11, 20 March 2025 (UTC)
Proposing shorter introduction
Hello there! I'm filling in for my colleague User:KM at Sysco, who proposed all the edit requests above this one. I'll be following all the same COI rules that they did.
I'd like to request a few revisions to this article's introduction. Your mileage may vary, but it strikes me as overlong, and it contains a few facts that are well out of date. I've put together a draft that I believe improves the section. I won't list every single change I'm proposing, but I'll cover a few important ones here. My draft:
- Removes the "Systems and Services Company" bit from the opening sentence. "Sysco" doesn't stand for anything. It's just a proper noun.
- Updates some facts and figures describing the company's scale and scope
- Updates Forbes ranking
- Removes some early history content that is covered at length in the body of the article, but probably doesn't need to be in the intro
- Removes the passage about the failed US Foods merger, for similar reasons
You can review my introduction draft by expanding this dropdown:
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Sysco is an American multinational corporation that sells, markets, and distributes food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, sports stadiums, and other venues that serve food. It also sells foodservice supplies and equipment. The company is headquartered in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas.[1] Sysco was founded in 1969 by Herbert Irving, John F. Baugh, and Harry Rosenthal. The company became public on March 3, 1970. Sysco is the world's largest broadline food distributor. As of June 2024, the company has approximately 76,000 employees and serves 730,000 customer locations. It operates 340 distribution centers in 10 countries.[2] Fortune magazine has consistently included Sysco in its annual Fortune 500 rankings of the largest companies in the United States based on total revenue.[3] In 2024, Sysco placed 54th in these rankings.[4] References
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I realize that some of the edits I'm suggesting are pure judgment calls. Given my COI, I'm happy to let independent editors have final say on those. My main goal with this draft is simply to build a more concise introduction that provides a basic description of the company and what makes it notable. And then visitors to the page can read through the finer details in the body of the article.
OK, that's it from me. If editors have any questions about my draft, or think it can be improved in some way, please leave me a reply below this post and I'll do my best to address your feedback. Thanks! CM at Sysco (talk) 19:12, 21 March 2025 (UTC)
- Flagging down User:Urban Versis 32, in case they've got some time to review this one. CM at Sysco (talk) 17:33, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @CM, these changes look good! However, it might be best to include a short paragraph on the company's history similar to the current introduction. I'll tag in @Reconrabbit to take a look as well as they have helped me with COI requests by KM before. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 20:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- I concur with User:Urban Versis 32 - the changes are welcome, but some mention of the company's founding is warranted. Maybe not even an entire paragraph is needed - just the two sentences that are already in the introduction (The company was founded in 1969 by Herbert Irving, John F. Baugh, and Harry Rosenthal. The company became public on March 3, 1970.) could be reintroduced. Reconrabbit 23:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for this feedback, User:Urban Versis 32 and User:Reconrabbit! I've revised my draft above. All I did was add in a version of the two sentences Recon suggested as their own brief paragraph. Does that look OK to everybody? CM at Sysco (talk) 14:18, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- I have no objections. Reconrabbit 14:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- I've published the edits through to the main article and I will close the request as completed. I'd like to thank @CM for following the COI request guidelines and @Reconrabbit for the collaboration and I hope we can do this again in the future if necessary! Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 21:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks to both of you, User:Reconrabbit and User:Urban Versis 32! CM at Sysco (talk) 14:19, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for this feedback, User:Urban Versis 32 and User:Reconrabbit! I've revised my draft above. All I did was add in a version of the two sentences Recon suggested as their own brief paragraph. Does that look OK to everybody? CM at Sysco (talk) 14:18, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- I concur with User:Urban Versis 32 - the changes are welcome, but some mention of the company's founding is warranted. Maybe not even an entire paragraph is needed - just the two sentences that are already in the introduction (The company was founded in 1969 by Herbert Irving, John F. Baugh, and Harry Rosenthal. The company became public on March 3, 1970.) could be reintroduced. Reconrabbit 23:19, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @CM, these changes look good! However, it might be best to include a short paragraph on the company's history similar to the current introduction. I'll tag in @Reconrabbit to take a look as well as they have helped me with COI requests by KM before. Urban Versis 32KB ⚡ (talk / contribs) 20:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)