Sysco Corporation
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Sysco is the largest foodservice distributor in the United States with $81.4B in FY2025 revenue. Meat and poultry are not ancillary — they are the single largest product category. Fresh and frozen meats generated $15.19B (19% of revenue) and poultry generated $8.14B (10% of revenue) in FY2025, totaling $23.3B or 29% of total revenue from animal flesh alone. Sysco supplies restaurants, hospitals, schools, and institutional buyers with industrial-scale quantities of beef, pork, chicken, turkey, and seafood. The company's entire logistics infrastructure — cold chain, warehouse network, fleet — is built around animal protein distribution. In March 2026, Sysco announced a $29B acquisition of Jetro Restaurant Depot, further expanding its foodservice distribution dominance.
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