SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2005 – The board of directors of ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM) has promoted Glenn M. Hammond, 34, to serve as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. Hammond’s area of responsibility will include supporting all merger and acquisition activity and other transactional work nationwide, and assisting with SEC compliance and corporate governance issues.

Hammond joined ABM over 18 months ago as Assistant Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining ABM, Hammond held the position of Corporate Associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco, where his area of expertise was in mergers and acquisitions, securities, private equity, corporate finance, and licensing. A 1992 graduate of Dartmouth College with a BA in English and Classics, Hammond earned his JD from New York University School of Law in 1995.

Admitted to practice in California and New York, Hammond is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals.

ABM Industries Incorporated is among the largest facility services contractors listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With fiscal 2004 revenues in excess of $2.4 billion and more than 73,000 employees, ABM provides janitorial, parking, security, engineering, lighting and mechanical services for thousands of commercial, industrial, institutional and retail facilities in hundreds of cities across the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The ABM Family of Services includes ABM Janitorial; Ampco System Parking; ABM Security Services, which includes American Commercial Security Services (ACSS) and Security Services of America (SSA); ABM Facility Services, which includes ABM Engineering and CommAir Mechanical; and Amtech Lighting.