People

November marks Global Purpose Month on the Sysco calendar. We enlist our suppliers support for product donations and our colleagues to help identify charities and foodbanks, who work with people and communities suffering from food poverty. In 2023, we packed 2,000 food boxes and delivered them to 30 charities island wide.  

We are proud to support the work of Cope Foundation in Cork and WALK in Dublin as our Purpose Partners. These great organisations support and enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism.  

Our work with the partners’ Ability@Work programmes includes providing training modules in Culinary, KP, Warehouse, Food Safety, Manual Handling, and office skills, which helps bring the people they support closer to the paying job market. We have two graduates from the programmes employed in the Cork depot. 

Throughout 2024 and 2025, we plan to extend our Purpose Partner Programmes throughout the island of Ireland – we’re only getting started! 

Sysco Ireland is committed to creating a diverse workforce that reflects the communities that we serve. We are creating an environment where everyone feels empowered and comfortable to bring their whole self to work. 

In 2022, we became a signatory to the Business in the Community Elevate Pledge, committing to record the diversity profile of our workforce, publish it, and take actions annually to ensure the recruitment and retention of diverse talent. 

2023 saw the launch of Sysco Ireland’s DEI Council, a colleague collective that works on a volunteer basis to increase awareness and promote change in the workplace.

We want to help wherever and whenever we can. Be it through monetary or inventory donations we are proud to be of service.

We are especially pleased to be able to partner with organisations like FoodCloud and Fare Share to redistribute our surplus food to charities and families who need it most.

To date, we have contributed over 1.1 million meals to community organisations.