Sysco's Diversity Message

Creating and maintaining an inclusive environment that elicits the very best from our associates is essential to our continued success at Sysco. At Sysco, we promote diversity at every level within our organization and believe that employing the very best talent from all groups within the communities in which we live and do business enables us to better serve our customers.

In this spirit, we've created a plan that integrates best business practices in four distinct areas to create a workplace that reflects the unique diversity of American life.

• In our workforce, we've implemented programs that help us recruit the best and brightest from a broad range of cultures and that helps our associates live up to their full potential while helping our customers be more successful.
  
  
• In our supplier relationships, we've built successful partnerships with minority and woman-owned businesses to offer our customers an even greater variety of choices.
  
  
• In our leadership, we've committed ourselves to enabling diverse representation at all levels of our company, all the way to the top.
  
  
• In the communities in which we live and work, we're striving to build stronger neighborhoods, promote higher education among minorities and encourage greater diversity across our industry.

By supporting and embracing diversity, we all gain new ideas and learn new ways to approach challenges. This allows us to make better business decisions that will have far-reaching and lasting benefits for everyone our business touches: our customers, our shareholders and our associates. It also lets us look forward to many, many more interesting times to come.