{"id":32455,"date":"2007-07-18T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2007\/07\/18\/4173-sysco-acquires-austin-tatum-for-asian-market-expansion\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T21:29:10","slug":"sysco-acquires-austin-tatum-for-asian-market-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2007\/07\/18\/32455\/","title":{"rendered":"SYSCO Acquires Austin Tatum For Asian Market Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYSCO Corporation, North America's largest foodservice marketer and distributor, announced that its subsidiary for personal care amenities and other hotel operating supplies, Guest Supply, LLC, has acquired Austin Tatum, a personal care amenity company headquartered in Hong Kong.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\"The acquisition of Austin Tatum represents an important step for Guest Supply's and SYSCO's expansion into the international market,\" said Richard J. Schnieders, SYSCO's chairman and chief executive officer. \"With a local presence and infrastructure in place, Guest Supply will now be in a position to better service the Asian properties of its U.S.-based clients as well as increase its Asian client base and the number of product categories it sells in Asia.\"<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Tatum was founded in 1996. The company creates its own amenity designs and under license also distributes a variety of name brand personal care products. Austin Tatum currently sells to hotels located in Australia, China, Dubai, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYSCO Corporation, North America's largest foodservice marketer and distributor, announced that its subsidiary for personal care amenities and other hotel operating supplies, Guest Supply, LLC, has acquired Austin Tatum, a personal care amenity company headquartered in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}