April 28, 2008 - Modern Distribution Management

April 28, 2008

SYSCO Sales Up 6.7% in 3Q

SYSCO Corp., Houston, TX, reported sales for the third quarter fiscal 2008 were up 6.7% to $9.15 billion, from last year’s third quarter.
 
Profit was up 9% to $240.9 million. Food cost inflation, as estimated by the change in SYSCO’s cost of goods, was 6.2% for the quarter.
 
Year-to-date, sales increased 7.7% to $27.79 billion from the same period last year, and profit was up 10.7% to $772 million. Food cost inflation, as estimated by the change in SYSCO’s cost of goods, was 6.0% year-to-date in fiscal 2008.
 
In a challenging business environment where restaurant sales growth appears to have been flat to down, we continued to grow and we leveraged that growth to our bottom line, particularly in the Broadline segment,” said Richard J. Schnieders, …

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Regal Beloit Buys Chinese Manufacturer

Regal Beloit Corp., Beloit, WI, has acquired Joyce Court Holdings Ltd. and Grand Delight Investments Ltd., sole shareholders of Wuxi Hwada Motor Co. and Wuxi New Hwada Motor Co. (collectively Hwada) in Wuxi, China, for $27.6 million in cash.
 
Hwada is a designer and manufacturer of Integral IEC and NEMA electric motors, which are used in various industrial applications such as compressor, pump, paper and steel processing, and power plants. The product line includes motors up to 5000 kw (6700 hp). Approximately 50% of Hwada’s product sales are in the China industrial markets. The other 50% is exported to Europe (35%), the U.S. (10%) and Southeast Asia (5%). The business will be reported as part of the Company’s Electrical Segment.
 
The business is expected to add …

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There is More To Software Selection Than Selecting Software

Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and also describes the act of providing services. “Software selection”is the art and science of determining the best solution for automating the operation of your business, but there is more to the process than just selecting the software. Just as a home owner wouldn’t spend thousands of dollars on a new home without assistance; we expect business owners would treat buying software as an equally complex task and call on similar outside assistance.
 
In some ways this complex task has become simpler. The software market is shrinking due to acquisition. The software vendors are providing graphical users interfaces (GUI) as a standard feature. The web and EDI has provided a standard approach to the sharing of data and …

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3M to Build Coatings Facility in Singapore

3M plans to build a new facility in Singapore to produce coatings for film-based products used in commercial, electronic and automotive applications. By establishing a local film coating center, the facility will help the company better serve the Asia market.
 
This investment brings us closer to our customers and creates a regional source of supply, which significantly simplifies our supply chain and helps us respond more quickly to our customers’needs in the fast-growing Asia market,”said Kevin Kuck, vice president, 3M film manufacturing.

Construction on the new facility, which will be located in the Tuas Industrial Park, will begin in the second quarter of this year and is expected to be completed in 2009. 3M operations already in Singapore include a customer …

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