Sysco Completes



The new company, Sysco Foodservices of Knoxville, LLC, will initiate service Monday, May 12, to an existing customer base in eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, southwestern Virginia and southeastern Kentucky. Customers in those market areas currently are being served by Sysco facilities in Nashville, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia, Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrisonburg, Virginia and Louisville, Kentucky.

Located on a 44-acre site at 900 Tennessee Ave. in the I-275 Business Park, just north of downtown Knoxville, the company said the facility

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