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Sysco: History, Companies, Products & Art

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.

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Sysco topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Companies, Products and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Sysco.

Related topics
28
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
32
Extracted relationships
104
Concept neighborhoods
9
Bridge connections
32

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 14 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Products and services · 5 topics
Labor disputes and corporate practices · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
March 19, 1969; 57 years ago (1969-03-19)
Industry
Wholesale
Headquarters
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Founder
Herbert Irving · John F. Baugh · Harry Rosenthal
Key people
Kevin Hourican (chairman and CEO)
Net income
US$1.83 billion (2025)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Products and services

Labor disputes and corporate practices

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Sysco connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sysco shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sysco → American, Appert's Foodservice, As, Asian, Asian Foods, Buchy Food Service, By, California, Canadian, Central Seafood Company, CFS Continental, Crossgar Foodservice, Distagro, Further, Houston, However, In, In December, Ireland, Irish Another extracted example is Sysco → April, California, In, In October, Indianapolis, International Brotherhood, Labor, Louisville, Portland, Sysco San Francisco, Teamsters, The, United States Department. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sysco

Top relations

related to Acquisitions and expansion · 35
Sysco → American, Appert's Foodservice, As, Asian, Asian Foods, Buchy Food Service, By, California, Canadian, Central Seafood Company, CFS Continental, Crossgar Foodservice, Distagro, Further, Houston, However, In, In December, Ireland, Irish
related to Labor disputes and corporate practices · 13
Sysco → April, California, In, In October, Indianapolis, International Brotherhood, Labor, Louisville, Portland, Sysco San Francisco, Teamsters, The, United States Department
related to history · 11
Sysco → Arrow Foods Distributor, At, Between, In, In March, It, John Baugh, May, The, US, Zero Foods
related to Products and services · 9
Sysco → For, FreshPoint, Greco, In, Italian, Sons, The, These, Within
related to External links · 6
Sysco → Asian Foods Inc, BusinessWeek, GoogleSEC, Inc, Official, SyscoThe SYGMA Network
Founder · 3
Sysco → Harry Rosenthal, Herbert Irving, John F. Baugh
Services · 2
Sysco → Food-away-from-home, Food-service
Traded as · 2
Sysco → NYSE: SYY, S&P 500 component
is a · 2
Sysco → American multinational corporation that sells, world's largest broadline food distributor
Founded · 1
Sysco → March 19, 1969; 57 years ago (1969-03-19)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

company food 2024 foods acquired billion foodservice distributor products us 000 acquisition houston customers announced distribution companies revenue million sysco's

Sysco relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around Sysco. Examples in this analysis include Sysco → Founded → March 19, 1969; 57 years ago (1969-03-19) and Sysco → Founder → Herbert Irving. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SyscoFoundedMarch 19, 1969; 57 years ago (1969-03-19)1.00infobox
SyscoFounderHerbert Irving1.00infobox
SyscoFounderJohn F. Baugh1.00infobox
SyscoFounderHarry Rosenthal1.00infobox
SyscoHeadquartersHouston, Texas, U.S.1.00infobox
SyscoIndustryWholesale1.00infobox
SyscoKey peopleKevin Hourican (chairman and CEO)1.00infobox
SyscoNet incomeUS$1.83 billion (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoNumber of employees75,000 (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoOperating incomeUS$3.09 billion (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoRevenueUS$81.4 billion (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoServicesFood-service1.00infobox
SyscoServicesFood-away-from-home1.00infobox
SyscoTotal assetsUS$26.8 billion (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoTotal equityUS$1.83 billion (2025)1.00infobox
SyscoTraded asNYSE: SYY1.00infobox
SyscoTraded asS&P 500 component1.00infobox
SyscoTypePublic1.00infobox
SyscoWebsitesysco.com1.00infobox
Syscofounded in19690.95text
Syscofounded byHerbert Irving0.90text
Syscois aAmerican multinational corporation that sells0.90text
Syscois aworld's largest broadline food distributor0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Sysco bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Acquired, Foods and Announced. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Sysco
    • Acquired
    • Foods
    • Announced
    • Purchasing
    • Companies
    • Billion
    • October
    • Year
    • Million
    • Us
    • Employees
    • Total
  • sysco
    • Acquired
    • Foods
    • Announced
    • Purchasing
    • Companies
    • Billion
    • October
    • Year
    • Million
    • Us
    • Employees
    • Total
  • food storage
    • Distributor
    • Products
    • Foodservice
    • Service
    • Sysco
    • Acquired
    • Company
    • Acquisition
    • Foods
    • Restaurants
    • Distribution
    • Approximately
  • us foods
    • Total
    • Foods
    • Us
    • Billion
    • Companies
    • Sysco
    • Acquired
    • First
    • Distribution
    • Acquisition
    • Employees
    • Houston
  • us$
    • Total
    • Foods
    • Billion
    • Companies
    • Employees
    • Houston
    • Uk
    • Approximately
    • Revenue
    • Service
    • Distribution
    • Million
  • products and services
    • Restaurants
    • Approximately
    • Distributor
    • Foodservice
    • Acquired
    • Sysco
    • Labor
    • Supplies
    • Sysco's
    • Customers
    • Acquisition
    • Company
  • houston
    • Employees
    • Total
    • Revenue
    • Distribution
    • Us
    • Billion
    • Foods
    • Sysco
  • united states department of labor
    • Employees
    • October
    • Products
    • Foods
    • Sysco

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sysco, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sysco with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
SyscoHistory · splits 18 ⟂ 15
SyscoOverview · splits 27 ⟂ 6
SyscoProducts and services · splits 27 ⟂ 6
SyscoLabor disputes and corporate practices · splits 28 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sysco

Nodes33
Edges32
Triples104
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sysco to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Companies, Products & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sysco · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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