April 2, 2003—ARAMARK has signed a new food service agreement with AstraZeneca, a large pharmaceutical company. The new agreement expands a 47-year partnership between the two companies. Annual sales of the new contract are estimated at $3 million with an initial term of up to three years.
ARAMARK will manage all business dining, catering, vending and retail services for more than 4,000 AstraZeneca employees at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Previously, ARAMARK managed food services at four company cafes at the headquarters. Under the expanded agreement, ARAMARK will provide a full range of food services at six company cafes and will also manage catering services for events, conferences and meetings at two new AstraZeneca facilities—a company conference & training center room and a 300-seat auditorium. In addition, ARAMARK will now operate a new on-site retail convenience store that offers beverages, snacks, sundries, magazines, newspapers and company logo items for AstraZeneca employees.
Through its business services group, ARAMARK provides a complete range of food, facility and other support services to more than 500 clients in business and industry, at more than 1,200 locations in the U.S. ARAMARK offers Fortune 500 companies and other large and small employers a single source provider for employee cafes, executive dining rooms, catering, convenience stores, conference center management and facilities management.
For more information, contact ARAMARK.
