Aramark

Aramark is an international service companies in the areas of catering, hospitality and service management.

In Germany, the company that started there in 1959 with vending stations summarizes its activities in the Aramark Holdings GmbH & Co. KG together and employs approximately 7,500 people according to their own information. The number of customers is estimated at about 4,000, the competition can be seen across Germany in second place. Chairman of the Board since January 2012 Jürgen Vogl.

Internationally, the Aramark Corporation sees in the catering and facility management as a leader. According to information generated in 2011, approximately 255,000 people in 22 countries around 13.1 billion U.S. dollars.

Business

• Catering including vending machines
• Hospital and senior catering
• Catering for schools and daycare centers
• Refreshment Services
• Event and stadium catering (including Olympic Stadium in Berlin, at the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund, at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt am Main, the Imtech Arena in Hamburg, in the Mercedes -Benz Arena in Stuttgart, in the Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf and the Grundig stadium in Nuremberg)

History

Aramark goes back to a vending machine service, the Davre Davidson founded in 1936 in Los Angeles. In 1959, Davidson teamed up with William Fishman and the company was renamed Automatic Retailers of America ( ARA). In 1994 the company was renamed in Aramark.

1959 has been expanded to Europe. One of the first activities was one of there machines operating on the premises of the Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim. First customer in the catering company catering in 1969, the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn.

2011 Aramark was elected " most sustainable companies in Germany " with the German Sustainability Award in the top 3 in the category.