The Sysco Corporation, the largest foodservice marketing and distribution organisation in the US, has named Kenneth F. Spitler executive VP, foodservice operations. Spitler, who is currently executive VP, redistribution and northeast region, will assume his new position effective 1 January 2003.
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Richard J. Schnieders, Sysco president and COO, said Spitler, 53, began his Sysco career in 1986 when he joined the Houston subsidiary as VP, marketing. Later that year he was named executive VP of Sysco’s Dallas operating company, a position he held until 1992, when he was promoted to president and CEO of the company’s Detroit operation.
In 1995 he returned to the Houston operation as president and CEO, and in 2000 he was named senior VP, operations, northeast region, with responsibility for Sysco companies in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Spitler was named to his current duties in February of 2002, with additional responsibility for managing the company’s redistribution operations, a role he will continue.
Spitler is a 1971 graduate of the University of Tulsa, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy.
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