When communities across the nation were in need during COVID-19, Sysco responded by leveraging its vast network of broadline and specialty companies to address hunger and food insecurity. We partnered with more than 900 community organizations around the world to package and deliver a total of 30 million meals.

During the global pandemic, Sysco launched a global mental health and well-being campaign, encouraging associates and leaders to take a pledge to support mental health. We also launched a global “Real Talk” initiative to promote safe, open and ongoing dialogue about racial and social injustice.

Sysco is committed to contributing to the improvement of animal welfare practices throughout the industry and have managed strong supplier programs and practices for many years. This year we formalized our intent for animal welfare to be a priority within our supply chain by publishing the Animal Welfare Policy for Suppliers.

During fiscal year 2020, Sysco established responsible sourcing commitments in the U.S. and Canada for four key commodities, including beef, paper, soy and coffee. We also sourced 99% of our top 15 wild-caught Portico Brand seafood species from fisheries in that are MSC certified, in MSC assessment, or in a comprehensive fishery improvement project (as of December 31, 2019).

Sysco has improved energy efficiency by 16.6% since 2014 in U.S. and Canada operations and in FY20 identified nearly 290 emissions-reduction improvements at 19 facilities. Additionally, we installed two new solar arrays for a total of 10,880 MWh generated at eight sites.