Sysco

Texas
Food and Staples Retailing

Risk Level:

Rating - Clear
Lower Risk

Summary:

Sysco has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious or political beliefs. Although Sysco supports the Equality Act, it has not otherwise used corporate funds, reputation, or policies to support ideological agendas or groups hostile to freedom of expression. For these reasons, Sysco receives a "Lower Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level
Rationale

There are no publicly known instances of Sysco terminating business relationships based on matters of viewpoint.

Criteria

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level
Rationale

Sysco’s charitable giving is aimed at preventing hunger through food security, and there is no language about preventing donations to religious organizations (1).

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Sysco’s nondiscrimination policy does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Sysco signed an open letter supporting the Equality Act (1). Sysco has not otherwise used its corporate reputation to support ideological causes. It even resisted pressure to issue a comment on the Texas election security law (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Rationale

There are no publicly known cases of Sysco donating to ideological groups hostile to freedom of expression (1).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Sysco has not used its PAC giving for ideological purposes (1)(2).

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March 23, 2023

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