Sysco Reports Sustainability Results


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Thu. January 31st, 2013

San Jose, CA-



By ANUK Staff

1.31.13


Sysco Sustainability Report ImagesSysco launched its sixth annual, and most comprehensive to date sustainability report, focusing on its economic, environmental, and social responsibility during the 2012 fiscal year. The report, titled “Good Things Are Our Greatest Responsibility,” highlighted the company’s strategic approach to sustainability, according to a press release. Results of Sysco’s sustainability efforts follow below.



Over the past six years, the energy usage in the company’s warehouses decreased by 19 percent, despite a 19 percent increase in warehouse volumes.Sysco Sustainability Report ImagesFleet improvements included the addition of 55 low-emission liquid natural gas trucks to the company’s fleet. The company now has a total of 165. Since 2010, it has purchased over 2,300 new trucks with low-emission engines.

The fill-rate of product-transporting trucks was increased by 180 pounds, meaning 1,400 fewer trucks were on the road compared to last year.

Suppliers in its Integrated Pest Management Program reported conserving more than 700 million gallons of water in the 2011 growing season. Sysco Sustainability Report Images"Sysco has an established track record of balancing its business needs with stakeholder interests, and we are working to further integrate sustainability into our long-term business strategy," said Bill DeLaney, Sysco's president and chief executive officer. "We remain committed to continually improving the way we do business, while helping our customers to improve theirs, and working to make our communities stronger."Sysco Reports Sustainability Results

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