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ARAMARK Finishes 1st With Customers by Sending Them to the NAPA 500 in Atlanta.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001

ARAMARK Uniform Services, a leading supplier of uniforms and career apparel to over 1.5 million people at more than 450,000 businesses worldwide, kicks off their national promotion campaign by giving away a Grand Prize Trip for two to see the NAPA 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway Atlanta Motor Speedway (formerly Atlanta International Raceway) is a superspeedway in Hampton, Georgia, twenty miles (32 km) south of Atlanta. It is a 1.54-mile (2.48 km) quad-oval track with a seating capacity of over 125,000. It opened in 1960 as a 1.5 mile standard oval. .

The promotion was developed to help promote awareness of the company and the findings of a newly released study that shows consumers prefer people in uniforms.

ARAMARK Uniform Services teamed up with Charlotte's leading classic rock station, The Fox 99.7 FM, to give away the prize. ARAMARK and The Fox will also give free lunches to workers who listen to the station and show up at remote broadcast locations around the city wearing their work uniforms.

Everyone at these events will be encouraged to enter into the Grand Prize Drawing for the trip to Atlanta.

ARAMARK Uniform Services will award the lucky Grand Prize Winner from Charlotte with two tickets to the NAPA 500 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The prize will also include transportation to Atlanta by a luxury motor coach, premier hotel accommodations at the Atlanta Downtown Hilton as well as extra spending cash.

ARAMARK Uniform Services provides uniform leasing, rental and direct purchase uniform programs to area businesses from government to airlines and automotive plants to supermarkets and convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. .

"ARAMARK's customized uniform programs can raise the profile of a business by reflecting the qualities of a professional organization," says Derek Longshore long·shore  
adj.
Occurring, living, or working along a seacoast.



[Short for alongshore.]
, Marketing Manager at ARAMARK. "We can provide a comprehensive image program to help any company gain an advantage over competitors. We are a major image maker for today's businesses."

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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

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 a recent study sponsored by the Uniform and Textile Services Association (UTSA UTSA University of Texas at San Antonio
UTSA Uniform and Textile Services Association
UTSA Uniform Trade Secrets Act of 1985
UTSA Usb Twin Serial Adapter
), consumers are likely to equate well-dressed or uniformed employees with attributes such as honesty, product knowledge and pride - qualities important to today's consumers.

ARAMARK Corporation is a $7.3 billion world leader in providing managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality  - uniforms and career apparel, food services food services Hospital services A 24/7 department in a hospital that provides for the nutritional needs of inpatients–eg, those needing special diets, preparing meals and transporting them to the floor and, through the cafeteria, the hospital staff and  and facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. , as well as child care and early education programs. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has more than 170,000 employees serving 15 million people at 500,000 locations in 15 countries every day.
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