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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 order for it to be approved. Accordingly, abstentions and broker non-votes will not be relevant to the outcome.

| SYSCO CORPORATION//2025 Proxy Statement | 35 |

| A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THECOMPENSATION AND LEADERSHIPDEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE |     |                                                                                |
|                                                                                |     | Alison Kenney PaulChair of the Compensationand LeadershipDevelopment Committee |

Dear Fellow Stockholders, As Chair of Sysco’s CLD Committee, I am pleased to provide an update on our fiscal year 2025 priorities and reaffirm our commitment to pay-for-performance compensation that supports long-term stockholder value. We appreciate the strong support for our 2024 Say-On-Pay proposal, with 93.80% of stockholders affirming our compensation approach. Stockholder feedback continues to guide our oversight, ensuring pay programs that reinforce accountability, sustainable performance, and retention of key leadership. In fiscal year 2025, we continued to align compensation with Sysco’s strategic priorities, maintaining an unwavering focus on the financial metrics at the heart of our “Algorithm for Growth.” Our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP) and Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) remained tied to critical drivers such as operating income, sales growth, earnings per share, and total shareholder return, which reinforced our discipline and focus on sustainable value creation. As a pay-for-performance company, we set ambitious targets that reflect the long-term value we aim to create. While Sysco’s company-wide financial results improved year-over-year, we ultimately did not meet all of our goals. Executive compensation results reflect that reality wi th a 66.34% AIP payout an d demonstrates our commitment of linking pay to performance outcomes. In looking ahead to the fiscal year 2026 incentive plans, the CLD Committee approved management’s proposal to reaffirm and refine the weighting of incentive plan measures to further align with the Company’s strategic priorities and the external operating environment. The Engagement Improvement metric has been removed to sharpen our focus on the core financial and strategic metrics that are most relevant to our business. We remain committed to transparent, data-driven compensation decisions that reflect stockholder priorities, reward sustainable performance, and support Sysco’s long-term strategic vision. On behalf of the CLD Committee, thank you for your continued engagement and support. Sincerely, Alison Kenney Paul Chair of the CLD Committee

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COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

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