Aramark Uniform Services history

In 1961, Automatic Retailers of America (then doing approximately 65 million dollars in vending sales) merged with Slater Corporation (doing approximately 65 millon dollars in manual service sales) and the company was renamed ARA Services, Inc.

In 1963, ARA was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

By 1964, ARA operated 95,000 vending machines, offering freshly brewed coffee, hot soup, sandwiches, and other items.

The company complied, selling one-third of the required portion by 1965 and the remainder in the following year.

In 1969, ARA officially became ARA Services, to reflect its growing range of businesses.

1972: ARA faces FTC charges due to its monopolistic control of the vending machine market.

By 1977, the company had divested almost all of its vending operations.

By 1979, ARA operated more than 6,000 food service establishments in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, and Germany.

At the end of 1984, ARA became a privately held company.

Its image was greatly improved, especially in its food service and leisure service divisions, where 'customized service' allowed the company to expand throughout Europe and into Japan, and even serve Olympic athletes their native foods at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

In the most recent chapter of our company history, on October 10, 1994, ARA Services, Inc. officially became ARAMARK.

By 1997, ARAMARK recorded $6 billion in sales.

In 1998, ARAMARK secured a ten-year contract with Sprint Corp. to manage food service operations at its world headquarters.

By continuing to land new customers, ARAMARK secured $750 million in revenues from new business in 1999.

In March 2000, the firm acquired the food and concession services of the Ogden Corp., which would make it the largest sports and entertainment concessions provider in the United States.

In 2001, Aramark returned to the New York Stock Exchange as a public company under the RMK ticker.

In 2004, Aramark acquired a 90% stake in the Irish catering company Campbell Catering.

In 2006, a group of investors led by Neubauer proposed the acquisition of all outstanding shares of the Aramark Corporation, which was approved by shareholders.

The merger was completed in 2007.

On August 29, 2011 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sold Van Houtte USA (Filterfresh) to Aramark for $145 million.

In May 2012, Aramark announced that its Board of Directors had elected Eric J. Foss as CEO and that Joseph Neubauer would remain the company’s Chairman.”