Labor Ready To Announce First Quarter 2005 Earnings Results

    Business Editors

    TACOMA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2005--Labor Ready, Inc. (NYSE:LRW), the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor, will release first quarter 2005 earnings results after the market closes Wednesday, April 20, 2005. Management will discuss the results on a live conference call at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time) on Thursday, April 21.
    This call is being web cast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Labor Ready's Web site at www.LaborReady.com.
    The web cast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.fulldisclosure.com, Thomson/CCBN's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

    About Labor Ready

    Labor Ready is the nation's leading provider of temporary manual labor, serving more than 300,000 customers by providing a flexible, dependable workforce to such industries as freight handling, warehousing, landscaping, construction and light manufacturing. Annually, Labor Ready puts more than 600,000 people to work. Labor Ready operates more than 800 locations in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit Labor Ready's website at www.laborready.com

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CONTACT: Labor Ready, Inc. Stacey Burke, 253-680-8291

KEYWORD: WASHINGTON INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HUMAN RESOURCES EARNINGS CONFERENCE CALLS SOURCE: Labor Ready, Inc.

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