COMPANY-SPONSORED EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

6 Months Ended

Dec. 30, 2023

Retirement Benefits [Abstract]

COMPANY-SPONSORED EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

COMPANY-SPONSORED EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

Sysco has company-sponsored defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans for its employees. We also provide certain health care benefits to eligible retirees and their dependents.

On October 25, 2022, the Sysco Corporation Retirement Plan (the Plan) executed an agreement with Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (the Insurer). Under this agreement, the Plan purchased a nonparticipating single premium group annuity contract using Plan assets that transferred to the Insurer $695.0 million of the Plan’s defined benefit pension obligations related to certain pension benefits. The contract covers approximately 10,000 Sysco participants and beneficiaries (the Transferred Participants) in the U.S. pension plan (the U.S. Retirement Plan). Under the group annuity contract, the Insurer made an unconditional and irrevocable commitment to pay the pension benefits of each Transferred Participant that were due on or after January 1, 2023. The transaction resulted in no changes to the amount of benefits payable to the Transferred Participants.

As a result of the transaction, we recognized a one-time, non-cash pre-tax pension settlement charge of $315.4 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2023 primarily related to the accelerated recognition of actuarial losses included within accumulated other comprehensive loss in the statement of changes in consolidated shareholders’ equity. The transaction also required us to remeasure the benefit obligations and plan assets of the U.S. Retirement Plan. The remeasurement reflected the use of an updated discount rate and an expected rate of return on plan assets as of October 31, 2022, applying the practical expedient to remeasure plan assets and obligations as of the nearest calendar month-end date.

Components of Net Benefit Costs

The components of net company-sponsored benefit cost for the U.S. Retirement Plan are as follows:

	13-Week Period			26-Week Period
		Ended (1)		Ended (1)
		Dec. 31, 2022		Dec. 31, 2022
	(In thousands)			(In thousands)
Service cost		$	2,034	$	4,357
Interest cost		38,103		80,604
Expected return on plan assets		(36,957)		(76,977)
Amortization of prior service cost		98		197
Amortization of actuarial loss		7,661		16,609
Settlement loss recognized		315,354		315,354
Net pension costs		$	326,293	$	340,144

(1) Net pension costs were not material for the second quarter and first 26 weeks of fiscal 2024.

The components of net company-sponsored benefit costs other than the service cost component are reported in other expense (income), net within the consolidated results of operations.