ARAMARK and the Harvard University Office of Capital Project Services Partner in Facility Services Contract.

PHILADELPHIA -- ARAMARK (NYSE:RMK), a world leader in managed services, announced today that it has been awarded the strategic and technical consulting services contract for a facilities condition assessment for Harvard University's Office of Capital Project Services. The contract includes assessment of buildings in all 10 Harvard Schools and academic units. Harvard plans to assess all of its buildings, totaling over 20 million gross square feet, at least once every ten years. An additional service to be provided is individual building analyses to examine life cycle costing.

"We are looking forward to the opportunity to support Harvard University's Office of Capital Project Services in achieving their mission, vision and key goals," said Frank Mendicino, President of ARAMARK Education, Facility Services. "We are eager about bringing our expertise to the University and forging a meaningful partnership with students, faculty, the university administration and the community."

Across the nation, ARAMARK Education provides a wide range of food, facility and other support services to approximately 600 colleges and universities. ARAMARK offers higher education institutions a single source for the development of dining and facility management solutions. Dining Services: Master planning; culinary development and venue design; catering; and retail and residential restaurant concepts. Facility Services: facilities maintenance; custodial; grounds; energy management; capital project management; and building commissioning.

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About ARAMARK

ARAMARK Corporation is a world leader in providing award-winning food and facilities management services to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, international and domestic corporations, as well as providing uniform and career apparel. ARAMARK was ranked number one in its industry in the 2005 FORTUNE 500 survey and was also named one of "America's Most Admired Companies" by FORTUNE magazine in 2005, consistently ranking since 1998 as one of the top three most admired companies in its industry as evaluated by peers. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately 242,500 employees serving clients in 20 countries.

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