Event Details
If you are not sure where to start, then this is the webinar for you. The team at BC Food and Beverage has partnered up with Sysco BC to give you a detailed run down on what it takes to get your products potentially listed with Sysco.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session you will have all the information necessary to approach Sysco as a potential distributor of your products. You will have an understanding of the following areas:
- The Sysco story
- Minimum requirements
- Food safety
- The evaluation team/process
- The forms package
- Pricing & finance
- Process flow
- Working with Team BC
About Your Facilitator:
Michael Audet is truly passionate about local food & beverage and jumped at the opportunity to move from marketing into a new role at Sysco to develop and grow our local market segment. Michael’s career with Sysco spans 22 years holding positions in customer service, business resources and for the last 12 years as marketing manager. Michael originally created our focus on local program, highlighting BC growers and producers. In his spare time Michael is a semi professional photographer working with local food and beverage producers such as the BC Blueberry Council, Squeezed Wine, Time Winery and Townhall Brands.
About Sysco:
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With over 69,000 associates, the company operates more than 320 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 650,000 customer locations.
