WARD CENTERS GETS THE INSIDE SCOOP ON BEN & JERRY’S By:Ward Centers, 07/11/2006 Famed ice cream franchise Ben & Jerry’s is making plans to open its first Hawaii location at Ward Centre this summer. Local developer Scoop Shops Hawaii, Inc. plans to open a Ben & Jerry’s in June at the new Ward Centre street front area next to Crazy Shirts. “We chose to open our first store in Ward Centers because it is the hottest entertainment complex in town,” said Ronni Tai See, president of Scoop Shops Hawaii, Inc. “Plus, all the development in that area has the potential to draw even more people to our shop.” Known as the funky chunky ice cream company, Ben & Jerry’s produces a wide variety of super-premium ice cream, sorbets and ice cream novelties with the highest-quality ingredients. The company uses dairy products from a Vermont dairy cooperative and is committed to using milk and cream from cows that have not been treated with the synthetic hormone rBGH. Ben & Jerry’s products are distributed nationwide and in select foreign countries in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, franchise Ben & Jerry Scoop Shops, restaurants and other venues. For the full scoop on Ben & Jerry’s fabulous flavors, visit www.benjerry.com. Ward Centers is owned and managed by General Growth Properties Inc., the second-largest U.S.-based publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust. General Growth currently has an ownership interest in or management responsibility for a portfolio of more than 200 shopping malls in 44 states, as well as ownership in planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and includes more than 24,000 retail stores nationwide. General Growth Properties Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP. For more information, please visit www.generalgrowth.com.