Company: SYY
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000096021-25-000157
Chunk: 43

Company: SYSCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 43
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 disclosure thresholds.•U.S. Foodservice Operations – primarily includes (a) our U.S. Broadline operations, which distribute a full line of food products, including custom-cut meat, seafood, produce, specialty Italian, specialty imports and a wide variety of non-food products and (b) our U.S. Specialty operations, which include our FreshPoint fresh produce distribution business, our Buckhead | Newport Meat & Seafood specialty protein operations, our growing Italian Specialty platform anchored by Greco & Sons, Inc., our Edward Don restaurant equipment and supplies distribution business, our Asian specialty distribution company and a number of other small specialty businesses that are not material to the operations of Sysco; •International Foodservice Operations – includes operations outside of the United States (U.S.), which distribute a full line of food products and a wide variety of non-food products. The Americas primarily consists of operations in Canada, Bahamas, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as our export operations that distribute to international customers. Our European operations primarily consist of operations in the United Kingdom (U.K.), France, Ireland and Sweden;•SYGMA – our U.S. customized distribution operations serving quick-service chain restaurant customer locations; and•Other – primarily our hotel supply operations, Guest Worldwide.

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The accounting policies for the segments are the same as those disclosed by Sysco for its consolidated financial statements. Our Global Support Center expenses generally include all expenses of the corporate office and Sysco’s shared service operations. Collectively, our Global Support Center provides numerous centralized services to our operating sites and performs support activities for employees, suppliers and customers. These services include customer and vendor contract administration, finance, legal, information technology, risk management and insurance, sales and marketing, merchandising, inbound logistics, human resources, and strategy. Expenses for the Global Support Center primarily consist of payroll costs for employees assigned to these operations, including severance, if any, all U.S. share-based compensation costs, and certain information technology, self-insurance, and depreciation expenses.Our chief operating decision maker (CODM) is our chief executive officer, who is responsible for setting the company's strategic direction, managing overall operations, and is the main point of communication between the board of directors and key operational personnel within the organization. The CODM regularly reviews financial results, operating performance, and capital expenditures of our reportable segments. Our CODM uses operating income as a primary measure of segment performance and as a comparison between each of our segments. Operating income is defined as income before interest expense, other expense (