Cintas Corporation Announces Addition of Gerald S. Adolph to Company's Board of Directors

A current senior vice president and senior partner with Booz AllenHamilton, Mr. Adolph is a recognized expert in growth strategies,business development and M&A.

Mr. Adolph has held numerous leadership positions at Booz-Allen,including: Worldwide Chemicals practice leader, Worldwide Consumer andHealth practice leader, and Global Mergers and Restructuring practiceleader. He has also served on the Booz-Allen Board of Directors.

"Gerald's proven leadership in executive planning and executionwill be a tremendous asset to Cintas as we look ahead to future growthopportunities," said Richard Farmer, Cintas Founder and Chairman. "Welook forward to the many contributions he will make as a CintasDirector."

Prior to joining Booz-Allen, Mr. Adolph was employed as anengineer by Polaroid Corporation in its R&D labs - and later in itschemical manufacturing division.

In addition to undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering andmanagement science/organizational psychology from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, Mr. Adolph holds a master's degree inchemical engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Harvard BusinessSchool.

About Cintas Corporation

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas Corporation provides highlyspecialized services to businesses of all types throughout NorthAmerica. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporateidentity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroomsupplies, promotional products, first aid and safety products, fireprotection services and document management services to approximately700,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over theNasdaq National Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a Nasdaq-100company and component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The Companyhas achieved 37 consecutive years of growth in sales and earnings, todate.