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New figures for infobox

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Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
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

  1. ^ "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)Reply

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Improving the History section

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Latest comment: 2 months ago12 comments4 people in discussion

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

Founding and early history

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In 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 expansion

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In 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

  1. ^ Hassell, Greg (July 10, 1998). "The sage of Sysco; Retired founder still at work". Houston Chronicle. Zero Foods was transformed into Sysco in the late 1960s, when Baugh decided the time was ripe to go national. Rather than battle rivals in other cities, he recruited eight different distributors with the idea of joining him and forming one big company... Baugh initiated the discussions in 1966, and three years later, the far-flung companies cemented their partnership.
  2. ^ a b c Takahashi, Paul (March 26, 2020). "Houston food service giant Sysco marks 50th anniversary as challenges mount". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  3. ^ "Business briefs; Houston & Texas". Houston Chronicle. November 7, 1998. Sysco Corp. plans to raise its cash dividend by a penny to 10 cents per share… The dividend increase is the 30th approved since the company's initial public offering in March 1970.
  4. ^ Amber, Melis (August 6, 2023). "Sysco: 13 Facts About The Nation's Largest Food Distributor". Mashed. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  5. ^ a b "$1 Billion Company 'Practically Invisible'". New York Times. February 12, 1981. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  6. ^ Gilpin, Kenneth N. (November 11, 1985). "President Named In Sysco Changes". New York Times. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  7. ^ a b Hagerty, James R. (January 3, 2020). "Former Sysco CEO Bill Lindig, Who Helped Create Food-Service Giant, Dies at 83". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  8. ^ Hassel, Greg. "Sysco goes to court vs. RioStar/Chapter 7 sought for Ninfa's parent." Houston Chronicle. Friday October 18, 1996. Business 1. Retrieved on February 6, 2012.
  9. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; SYSCO TO BUY A CALIFORNIA MEAT DISTRIBUTOR". New York Times. July 10, 1999. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  10. ^ "SYSCO TO ACQUIRE SERCA, CANADIAN NATIONAL BROADLINER, (USD$1.4-BILLION)". Restaurant Business. 5 December 2001. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Asian Foods bought by Sysco". bizjournals. 12 November 2002. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  12. ^ Labanyi, David (April 1, 2009). "Sysco buys Limerick-based Pallas Foods". The Irish Times. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  13. ^ Jones, Kristin. "Sysco Buys Crossgar Foodservice, Pushing Irish Expansion". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
  14. ^ "Crossgar Foodservice bought by US firm Sysco". BBC. June 13, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2024.
  15. ^ de la Merced, Michael J. (June 29, 2015). "Sysco Terminates Deal With US Foods". New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  16. ^ Kendall, Brent (2015-06-29). "Judge Explains Reasons for Blocking Sysco-US Foods Merger". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
  17. ^ "Sysco Cancels $8.2 Billion US Foods Takeover In Big Antitrust Win For FTC". Forbes. June 29, 2015.
  18. ^ Picker, Leslie (February 22, 2016). "Sysco to Acquire Brakes Group, a Food Distributor in Europe". New York Times. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  19. ^ Romeo, Peter (May 20, 2021). "Sysco to acquire Italian specialist Greco and Sons". Restaurant Business. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  20. ^ Kapadia, Shefali (December 8, 2021). "Sysco acquires distributor The Coastal Companies and its fleet assets in M&A spree". Trucking Dive. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  21. ^ "Sysco to acquire Edward Don & Company". Houston Daily. October 14, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
  22. ^ Whitaker, Harriet (October 16, 2023). "Edward Don & Co sells business to Sysco". Catering Insights. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

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)Reply

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)Reply
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)Reply
Thanks so much, User:Urban Versis 32! I'll await your review. KM at Sysco (talk) 22:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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)Reply
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)Reply
@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)Reply
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)Reply
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)Reply
@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)Reply
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)Reply
  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)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: NAS 348 Global Climate Change

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  This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 5 September 2024 and 4 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Fisherman6373 (article contribs).

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