Company: SYY
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000096021-25-000099
Chunk: 145

Company: SYSCO CORP
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 145
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 Growth” transformation. This growth transformation is supported by strategic pillars that we believe will continue to enable us to better serve our customers, including: 

•Digital – We have and will continue to enrich the customer experience through personalized digital tools that reduce friction in the purchase experience and introduce innovation to our customers.

•Products and Solutions – We are providing customer-focused marketing and merchandising solutions that inspire increased sales of our broad assortment of fair priced products and services. We continue to improve our merchandising strategies globally to secure the best possible cost for our customers.

•Supply Chain – We are efficiently and consistently serving customers with the products they need, when and how they need them, through a flexible delivery framework. We are developing a more nimble, accessible and productive supply chain that is better positioned to support our customers.

•Customer Teams – Our greatest strength is our people - people who are passionate about food and food service. Our team - diverse in perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences - delivers expertise and differentiated services designed to help our customers grow their businesses. We will continue to invest in the sales organization through incremental sales colleagues and intend to improve the effectiveness by leveraging data to increase the yield of the sales process.

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•Future Horizons – We are committed to responsible growth. We will cultivate new channels, new segments, and new capabilities, organically and through strategic acquisitions, while being stewards of our company and our planet for the long term. We will utilize cost-out and efficiency improvements to mitigate the costs of our future investments.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth the components of our consolidated results of operations expressed as a percentage of sales for the periods indicated:

 20252024Sales100.0 %100.0 %Cost of sales81.6 81.5 Gross profit18.4 18.5 Operating expenses14.6 14.5 Operating income3.8 4.0 Interest expense0.8 0.7 Other expense (income), net— — Earnings before income taxes3.0 3.3 Income taxes0.8 0.8 Net earnings2.2 %2.5 %

The following table sets forth the change in the components of our consolidated results of operations expressed as a percentage increase or decrease over the comparable period in the prior year:

 2025Sales3.2 %Cost of sales3.4 Gross profit2.5 Operating expenses4.2 Operating income