G&K Services Launches New Charitable Giving Campaign

Employees at G&K Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: GK), together with the G&K Services Foundation, recently launched GKgives, an exciting new effort to support the communities where the company does business. The GKgives campaign is centered around quarterly events in which G&K employees are encouraged to contribute their time and resources to charitable organizations that support G&K’s giving mission of “building communities that work.” Employee’s donations are matched by the G&K Services Foundation, allowing G&K to become a significant partner with the charities it chooses to support.

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“It has been rewarding to see G&K’s employees embrace the GKgives campaign, volunteering their time and making generous financial contributions to support the communities where we live and work,” said Tracy C. Jokinen, Chief Financial Officer. “GKgives provides a terrific platform for our company and employees to make a positive difference in the lives of people in need.”

In the first ever GKgives event, held late in 2015, G&K employees in Minnesota and surrounding states, together with the G&K Services Foundation, pledged over $250,000, which will be granted to selected charitable organizations. The initial grantees include Twin Cities Rise!, People Serving People, Sharing and Caring Hands, and The Arc.

G&K Services’ community giving efforts are focused on “building communities that work”, supporting organizations that help meet the basic human and educational needs of people within our communities. To learn more about G&K’s community involvement, visit www.gkservices.com/community.

About G&K Services, Inc.

G&K Services, Inc. is a service-focused market leader of branded uniform and facility services programs in the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, G&K Services has 8,000 employees serving approximately 170,000 customer locations from 165 facilities in North America. G&K Services is a publicly held company traded over the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol GK and is a component of the Standard & Poor’s SmallCap 600 Index. For more information visit www.gkservices.com.

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