Company: SYY
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000096021-25-000147
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Company: SYSCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-02
Form: DEF 14A
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 compensation previously paid or instances of certain misconduct by an executive officer.

| 10 | SYSCO CORPORATION//2025 Proxy Statement |

PROXY STATEMENT SUMMARY Item 3 Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

| What We Do                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |     | What We Don’t Do |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| Pay for performance– Link a significant percentage of total compensation tocompany-wide and individual performance.Annual “Say on Pay”– Seek an advisory vote from stockholders on ourexecutive compensation programs on annual basis.Independent compensation consultant– Select and engage an independentcompensation consultant to advise on our executive compensation programs.Risk assessment– Perform an annual risk assessment of our executivecompensation programs to identify practices that may encourage employees totake unnecessary or excessive risk.Clawback policies– Recover erroneously awarded incentive-basedcompensation to named executive officers (“NEOs”) following a financialrestatement or for NEOs who engage in misconduct that results in either materialfinancial or reputational harm to Sysco.Double trigger change-in-control– Include a double-trigger that requires botha change in control and an involuntary termination within 24 months foraccelerated vesting of Long-Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”) awards.Robust stock ownership guidelines– Require stock ownership equal to7x base salary for CEO, 4x base salary for executive vice presidents, 2x basesalary for senior vice presidents and 5x annual cash retainer for our directors.Limited trading windows– Require our executive officers to conduct alltransactions in shares of Sysco Common Stock through pre-approved Rule10b5-1 trading plans. |     |                  | No repricing orexchange of underwaterstock options withoutstockholder approval.No excise tax grossups upon a changein control.No unearned dividendspaid. Pay dividendequivalents on ourPerformance ShareUnits (“PSUs”) andRestricted Stock Units(“RSUs”) only if andwhen the underlyingawards are earnedand delivered.No excessiveperquisites.No stock hedging orpledging by our NEOs,directors, or otherspecified “insiders.” |

| Item3 |     | Ratification of the Appointment of IndependentRegistered Public Accounting Firm |            |
|       |     | The Board recommends a voteFORthis proposal.                                    | See Page68 |

The Audit Committee of the Board has appointed Ernst & Young LLP ("Ernst & Young") as Sysco’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2026