syscoposam108.htm
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As
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 28,
2008
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Registration
No. 333-124166
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UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
POST-EFFECTIVE
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
FORM
S-3
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
SYSCO
CORPORATION
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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DELAWARE
(State
or other jurisdiction of incorporation or
organization)
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74-1648137
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
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1390
Enclave Parkway
Houston,
Texas 77077-2099
(281)
584-1390
(Address,
including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
registrant’s
principal executive offices)
Michael
C. Nichols
Senior
Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
1390
Enclave Parkway
Houston,
Texas 77077-2099
(281)
584-1390
(Name,
address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of
agent
for service)
Copies
to:
B. Joseph
Alley, Jr., Esq.
Arnall
Golden Gregory LLP
171
17th
St., NW
Suite
2100
Atlanta,
Georgia 30309-3450
(404)
873-8500
Approximate
Date of Commencement of
Proposed Sale To The Public: SYSCO Corporation is amending
this registration statement to deregister $1,000,000,000 of debt
securities.
If
the
only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to
dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box. [ ]
If
any of
the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed
or
continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other
than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest
reinvestment plans, check the following
box. [ ]
If
this
Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to
Rule
462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the
Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective
registration statement for the same
offering. [ ]
If
this
Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the
Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration
statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same
offering. [ ]
If
this
Form is a registration statement pursuant to General Instruction I.D. or a
post-effective amendment thereto that shall become effective upon filing with
the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act, check the
following box. [ ]
If
this
Form is a post-effective amendment to a registration statement filed pursuant
to
General Instruction I.D. filed to register additional securities or additional
classes of securities pursuant to Rule 413(b) under the Securities Act, check
the following box. [ ]
THIS
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH SECTION 8(C) OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, ON SUCH DATE AS
THE
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION MAY DETERMINE.
DEREGISTRATION
OF UNSOLD SECURITIES
This
Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 amends the Registration Statement on Form S-3,
Registration No. 333-124166 (the "Registration Statement"), of SYSCO Corporation
(the "Company"), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on
April 19, 2005. Pursuant to the Registration Statement, the Company
could offer and issue from time to time one or more series of debt securities
with an aggregate initial offering price not to exceed $1,500,000,000, or the
equivalent amount in foreign currency or units.
The
offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. In
accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement
to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of
the
securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Company
hereby removes from registration $1,000,000,000 of the debt securities
registered, but unsold, under the Registration Statement.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and Rule 478 thereunder,
the
registrant has duly caused this post-effective amendment to registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Houston, State of Texas, on January 25,
2008.
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SYSCO
CORPORATION
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By:
/s/ Michael C.
Nichols
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Michael
C. Nichols, Senior Vice
President, General Counsel and Corporate
Secretary
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and
as Agent for
Service
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