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Aramark
Type	Public (NYSE: RMK) (soon to taken private
Founded	1959 (as Automatic Retailers of America)
Headquarters	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Key people	Davre Davidson and William Fishman, founders Joseph Neubauer, CEO
Industry	Foodservice
Products	Foodservice
Revenue	$11.33 Billion USD (2005)
Net income	$314.69 Million USD (2005)
Employees	150,000 (full-time)
Website	www.aramark.com

Aramark Corporation (NYSE: RMK) is a professional services organization, providing food services, facilities management, hospitality services, and uniforms and career apparel to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, businesses, prisons, senior living facilities, parks and resorts, correctional institutions, conference centers, convention centers, and public safety professionals around the world. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Aramark has approximately 242,500 employees serving clients in 20 countries. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... Shortcut: WP:CSD Current list: Category:Candidates for speedy deletion There are a few, limited, cases where admins can delete Wikipedia pages on sight. Non-admins can ask for an admin to delete such a page, either by listing it on speedy deletions, or by adding either a {{delete}} or... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by a relatively few individuals. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Joseph Neubauer is Executive Chairman of the Board of Aramark, a world leader in managed services. ... The foodservice (or food service) industry generally encompasses those places, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal eaten away from home. ... The foodservice (or food service) industry generally encompasses those places, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal eaten away from home. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ...

In Fortune magazine's 2006 list of "America's Most Admired Companies," Aramark was ranked number one in its industry, consistently ranking since 1998 as one of the top three most admired companies in its industry as evaluated by peers and industry analysts. The company was also ranked first in its industry in the 2006 Fortune 500 survey.

History Highlights

1936

Davre Davidson begins the Los Angeles company that will eventually become Aramark.

1959

Davidson and William Fishman merge their operations and the company becomes ARA (Automatic Retailers of America)

1969

ARA officially becomes ARA Services, to reflect its growing range of businesses.

1977

ARA entered the uniform business.

1983

Joseph Neubauer is elected CEO of ARA Services.

1994

ARA Services evolves into Aramark to reflect the change in its business relationships and its commitment to customers.

2001

Aramark returns to the New York Stock Exchange as a public company under the RMK ticker.

Leadership

Joseph Neubauer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

L. Frederick Sutherland, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Bart J. Colli, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary

Timothy P. Cost, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs

Lynn B. McKee, Executive Vice President, Human Resources

Andrew Kerin, President, Aramark Domestic Food, Hospitality, and Facilities

Ravi K. Saligram, President, Aramark International

Thomas J. Vozzo, President, Aramark Uniform and Career Apparel Inc.

Corporate governance

Current members of the board of directors of Aramark are: Lawrence Babbio, Patricia Barron, Leonard Coleman, Ronald Davenport, Thomas Kean, James Ksansnak, Joseph Neubauer, James E. Preston, Ronald Sargent, and Karl von der Heyden. In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... Thomas Howard Kean (born April 21, 1935) is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990. ... Joseph Neubauer is Executive Chairman of the Board of Aramark, a world leader in managed services. ...

Legal Issues

Since Aramark's 2003 takeover of the environmental services at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas, the company has been under fire for alleged malfeasance, breach of contract, incompetence and rampant workplace bullying. Environmental services include non-medical departments like laundry, waste management, security, housekeeping, patient transport and food services. While the hospital's board members have profusely praised the company, most other staff members have been extremely critical of Aramark's managers, of its treatment of its employees and of the quality of the services provided. Aramark agreed to hire Scott & White's environmental services personnel en masse and to allow them to keep both their current pay levels and their years of seniority. After hiring them, Aramark began to systematically dismiss the long-term workers, replacing them with new employees at much lower wage levels. Several former Scott & White employees have successfully sued the company, while others have settled out of court. Allegations against the company have included false documentation and defamation of character. Scott & White, a major medical center with satellite clinics throughout central Texas, is one of Aramark's largest customers in the region. Temple is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. ... The expressions misfeasance and nonfeasance, and occasionally malfeasance, are used in English law with reference to the discharge of public obligations existing by common law, custom or statute. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... False documentation is the process of creating documents which record fictitious events. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ...

Drayton McLane, Jr., the owner of the Houston Astros, is a member of Scott & White's Board of Trustees and a major stockholder in Aramark. This has led some Scott & White staff members to accuse McLane of violating conflict of interest laws. Astros redirects here, for other uses see Astros (disambiguation) Major league affiliations National League (1962–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 24,25,32,33,34,40,49 Name Houston Astros (1965–present) Houston Colt . ... A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or company (including a corporation), that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a joint stock company. ... A conflict of interest is a situation in which someone in a position of trust, such as a lawyer, a politician, or an executive or director of a corporation, has competing professional or personal interests. ...

Aramark has also been taken to task for a December 1999 incident in which a vendor at Giants Stadium kept selling beer to a man who was clearly drunk. Later, the drunk driver caused a traffic accident in which a 2-year-old child was paralyzed from the neck down. The family sued Aramark, claiming that the service company shared responsibility with the driver. Though the stadium has a limit to how much beer a customer can buy, the driver got around it by bribing a vendor. Though Aramark kept the case in court for over six years, the child's family eventually scored an initial win at a jury trial.^[1] This victory, however was overturned by an appeals court on technical grounds, and is now awaiting retrial, pending a further appeal of the appellate court decision.^[2] Giants Stadium, also called The Meadowlands, is the home stadium for the New York Giants and New York Jets NFL football teams, and Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars) of Major League Soccer. ...

In January of 2004, Aramark agreed to pay more than $29,000 in gratuities to employees of the Southbridge Conference Center in Boston, Massachusetts after several employees filed complaints that the company was withholding their tips. According to the complaints, the tips were withheld from January of 2002 to August of 2003. (Boston Globe, Jan. 28, 2004.) 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area  Ranked 44th  - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 km²)  - Width 183 miles (295 km)  - Length 113 miles (182 km)  - % water 13. ...

In 2005, several Aramark managers were implicated in an embezzlement scandal involving underreporting of the company's vending machine revenues.^{[citation needed]} 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

From January thru April of 2006, Arturo Luna, an Aramark employee, sexually harassed a junior and a freshman girl constantly just off the campus, except during the school hours of Niles North. He was eventually fired on April 6, 2006, and arrested for rape.[3] 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Niles North High School, or NNHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

1. ^ Family successfully sues Aramark [1]
2. ^ Court overturns jury award against stadium conesssionaire [2], accessed August 5, 2005

External links

• ARAMARK's website
• Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel website
• Aramark Refreshments Website