---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000096021-23-000072"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SYY"
cik: "0000096021"
company_name: "SYSCO CORP"
filed_at: "2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T18:44:15.487437+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sysco adopts amended and restated bylaws effective June 21, 2023

## Summary
- Amends bylaws to update stockholder meeting adjournment procedures per DGCL amendments.
- Requires stockholder soliciting proxies to use a color other than white (Section 5(f)).
- Updates director nomination procedures to comply with SEC's universal proxy card rules (Rule 14a-19).
- Includes technical and conforming revisions to align with DGCL and SEC rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000096021-23-000072
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SYY
- cik: 0000096021
- company_name: SYSCO CORP
- filed_at: 2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96021/000009602123000072/0000096021-23-000072-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96021/000009602123000072/syy-20230621.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SYSCO CORP: Amended and restated bylaws to update corporate governance practices, including changes to adjournment procedures, stockholder list availability, proxy card color, director nomination requirements, and technical revisions (effective 2023-06-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-21
  source text: On and effective June 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Sysco Corporation (“ Sysco ” or the “ Company ”), upon the recommendation of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee of the Board, adopted amended and restated bylaws of the Company (the “ Amended and Restated Bylaws ”) in connection with the Board’s periodic review of recent developments involving corporate governance practices, the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “ DGCL ”) and the rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ SEC ”) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”). Among other things, the amendments effected by the Amended and Restated Bylaws include: • modifying the provisions relating to adjournment procedures for stockholder meetings to reflect amendments to the DGCL (Section 5(c)); • modifying the provisions relating to the availability of lists of stockholders entitled to vote at stockholder meetings to r
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96021/000009602123000072/0000096021-23-000072-index.htm

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