Bill Lindig got his start in the food industry in the 1940s by helping his mother after school at the neighborhood grocery store she ran in Austin, Texas. In the 1990s, he ran Sysco Corp., the nation’s largest distributor of food and related items to restaurants and other food-service operations.
Armed with a business degree from the University of Texas, Mr. Lindig joined Nelson Davis & Son, a wholesale grocer in Austin. Grocery wholesalers were mostly local businesses then, but that was changing. In 1964, Fleming Co….
