Angelica Announces Fiscal Year 2003 Conference Call, Schedule of Analyst Conference Calls for 2004, and Date of 2004 Annual Meeting.

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ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004

Angelica Corporation (NYSE:AGL), a leading provider of textile rental and healthcare linen management services, announced today that it will hold an analyst conference call to review fiscal year 2003 fourth quarter and year end results on March 18, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. CST. In addition, Angelica announced the following schedule of analyst conference calls in calendar 2004:

-- May 25, to discuss fiscal 2004 first quarter results

-- August 24, to discuss fiscal 2004 second quarter results

-- November 30, to discuss fiscal 2004 third quarter results

All analyst conference calls will be webcast live and available broadly in a listen-only mode to individual investors and to the public through CCBN Company Boardroom, which may be accessed at www.fulldisclosure.com or through Angelica's website at www.angelica.com. Replays of the calls will be available through CCBN for two weeks afterward as well.

In addition, Angelica announced that its calendar 2004 Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held on May 25, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. at the Saint Louis Club.

Angelica Corporation, traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AGL, is a leading provider of textile rental and linen management services to the U.S. healthcare market. The Company also operates a national chain of retail healthcare uniform and shoe stores with a fully-integrated catalogue and e-commerce operation as a discontinued operation pending sale of this division.