AEG and Levy Restaurants, with Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events Expand Worldwide Partnership.

CHICAGO & LOS ANGELES -- Exclusive Food Services to Be Provided for Sports and Entertainment Venues Throughout the World

Levy Restaurants, North America's market leader in sports and entertainment dining, in partnership with Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events (WPCE), has been awarded a multi-year contract to create and provide the food experiences at all AEG sports and entertainment properties throughout the world. AEG, the world's leading sports and entertainment presenters, and Levy Restaurants and Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events announced an expansion of their existing relationships. Levy Restaurants has provided premium dining at AEG owned STAPLES CENTER since it opened in 1999, and Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events has provided full service catering and concessions for the Kodak Theatre and The Colosseum at Caesars Palace since 2001.

Under the new agreement, the partnership will cater to guests at prestigious AEG properties such as The Home Depot Center, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace and NOKIA Live at Grand Prairie as well as all guests at STAPLES Center and projects in development including new arenas within London's Millennium Dome and on a 50-acre site in the heart of downtown Berlin and NOKIA Theatre Los Angeles, a 7,000-seat theater in downtown Los Angeles.

"We cherish our relationship with AEG," says Andy Lansing, president and CEO of Levy Restaurants. "They have a vision for providing amazing guest experiences at sports and entertainment destinations around the globe. We share that same passion for the food and hospitality experience. This expanded partnership will be tremendous, and we are excited by the worldwide opportunities it presents."

"While this partnership is a groundbreaking business relationship for AEG, the real beneficiaries of this agreement are the millions of guest worldwide who will be treated to a dining and hospitality experience that will be second-to-none," said Tim Leiweke, president and CEO of AEG. "I'd like to welcome Larry Levy, Andy Lansing and Levy Restaurants along with Wolfgang Puck, Carl Schuster and Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events to all of our AEG venues worldwide and look forward to teaming up to introduce this most unique enterprise to our industry and visitors to our venues."

The new Levy Restaurants and WPCE agreement with AEG includes providing food service for millions of guests annually. The partnership will create the overall guest dining and hospitality experience and oversee food and beverage operations for all AEG sports and entertainment venues.

AEG Owned or Operated Venues:

--STAPLES Center: Los Angeles, California

--The Home Depot Center: Carson, California

--Colosseum at Caesars Palace: Las Vegas, Nevada

--Kodak Theatre: Hollywood, California

--NOKIA Live at Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie, Texas 

--NOKIA Theatre Los Angeles (in development): Los Angeles, California

--Millennium Dome Arena (in development): London, England

--National Arena (in development): Berlin, Germany

On the addition of Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events to the partnership, Andy Lansing says, "Wolfgang Puck has been an inspiration for culinary creativity for more than 20 years in America. His name is synonymous with high profile events and the entertainment industry, and it is the perfect addition to the partnership."

"We have enjoyed a great relationship with Levy since 2000 and look forward to expanding it, as well as building our partnership with AEG, with whom we have had much success in Las Vegas at the Colosseum with Celine Dion. We feel confident through this amazing opportunity we will offer a unique dining and entertainment experience for our costumers that is unparalleled," says Carl Schuster, president and CEO of Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events.

The new agreement immediately takes effect at the Home Depot Center to launch the 2004 JPMorgan Chase Open tennis championships featuring Levy Restaurants' signature cuisine in all the premium suites and boxes and Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events' introduction of Courtside Cuisine at the event's Tennis Village and at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on August 1.

It was also announced that AEG, Levy Restaurants and Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events would ultimately create as a joint venture, a new company to oversee all aspects of this agreement and continue to explore and develop new business ventures and properties for the partnership.

Recognized as the only sports and entertainment winners of the industry's most prestigious Ivy Award, Chicago-based Levy Restaurants is one of the country's fast-growing and most critically acclaimed restaurant companies and is the market leader in sports and entertainment dining. The company owns, manages or operates 91 locations, including 25 restaurants and 66 sports and entertainment venues in 38 markets across the country, in Canada and in the United Kingdom. Levy's portfolio includes award-winning restaurants such as Spiaggia and Bistro 110 in Chicago and Fulton's Crab House in Walt Disney World, as well as Super Bowls, the GRAMMY Awards, major league all-star and championship games, the World Series, the Kentucky Derby and NASCAR racing. For more information on Levy Restaurants, visit www.levyrestaurants.com.

Wolfgang Puck's culinary genius gave a new interpretation to American cuisine. His restaurant concepts have been on the creative edge of fine dining for more than two decades, Wolfgang has been praised by critics, revered by fellow chefs and celebrated by leaders in entertainment, business, and politics. Perhaps no other chef-restaurateur in the last quarter century has been as influential to the American dining experience as Wolfgang Puck. Wolfgang has been catering since he first opened Spago Hollywood in 1982. He and Carl Schuster have been developing the Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events brand and services together since 1998. Currently, WPCE operates restaurants and catering services at many event venues and cultural centers in major markets in the U.S. including the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the St. Louis Science Center, the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Hollywood & Highland, delivering such legendary events as the Academy Awards(R) Governors Ball, The Annual Lincoln Park Zoo Gala, AFI Awards, BET Awards, The Espy's and The Millennium Park Grand Opening Gala . Wolfgang Puck Catering and Events will be opening soon in Seattle at Benaroya Hall, Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, Indianapolis Museum of Art, in Dallas at Reunion Tower and Union Station, and at Freedom Forum Newseum in Washington, D.C.

AEG is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation, owns or controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES Center, The Forum (as exclusive booking agent for sports and entertainment programming), HealthSouth Training Center, NOKIA live at Grand Prairie and Kodak Theater (as operator); sports franchises including the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), the Manchester Monarchs (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), Chicago Fire, DC United, Los Angeles Galaxy, Metrostars and San Jose Earthquakes (MLS), five hockey franchises operated in Europe and management of shares of the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) and Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA) owned by Philip Anschutz; AEG Marketing, a sponsorship, sales, naming rights and consulting company; AEG Merchandising, a multi-faceted merchandising company; AEG Creative, a full-service marketing and advertising agency and AEG LIVE, a collection of companies devoted to all aspects of live entertainment including: AEG TV (formerly Spring Communications) devoted to creation and marketing of live events for pay-per-view and other electronic media; Creative Battery, producers of live entertainment for a variety of media and venues; AEG Tours & Special Events and Golden Voice, live entertainment promotion and touring companies. AEG LIVE is currently producing Celine Dion A New Day...Presented By Chrysler, a spectacular theatrical production starring Dion and an international cast of 60 dancers, musicians and artists and directed by Franco Dragone now appearing at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

In addition, AEG has recently developed and opened The Home Depot Center, a $150 million national training "campus" in Carson, California designated as an "Official U.S. Olympic Training Site" by the United States Olympic Committee that includes major facilities for soccer, tennis, track & field, cycling, volleyball, basketball and other sports.

AEG is currently overseeing the development of L.A. Live, a proposed 4 million square foot development featuring a 7,000-seat state-of-the-art live theatre, a 1200-room convention "headquarters" hotel along with entertainment, restaurant, residential and office space all adjacent to STAPLES Center. The company was recently selected to fully develop the 28-acre Millennium Dome and adjacent property located in the eastern part of London along the Thames River and will create new arenas within the Millennium Dome and on a 50-acre site in the heart of Berlin.