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Cintas Corporation, Cincinnati, announced the company’s board of directors approved a $0.48 per share annual dividend, an increase over last year’s annual dividend of $0.47 per share. The dividend is payable on March 10, 2010, to shareholders of record as of February 10, 2010.

LaGrange, Georgia-based Logo Mats Inc. is proud to introduce a green product to the promotional products industry. Determined to reduce the company's carbon imprint, Logo Mats designed the Enviro PLUS logo mat made of 89 percent post-consumer and post-industrial materials.

AS THE PUNCHLINE of more than its fair share of boring-job jokes, selling insurance has gotten a bad rap for years. Yet it’s no easy undertaking. Doing so successfully requires the salesperson not only to bring up the stuff of people’s worst nightmares—natural disasters, fire, death—but to place each in the context of certain reality. They’re the universal bearers of bad news. And by default, the sector’s promotional products have about as much symbolism as the hooded cape and scythe. Thankfully, however, this downer of an image has started to fade away in favor of more useful, lighthearted product offerings. Mark Yokoyama, director of marketing

xcerpted from www.super-solutions.com, a human resources-related Web site: Managers have a lot to learn about employee recognition, according to the results of a recent national Maritz Poll. More than 1,000 full-time employees were asked to compare companies’ reward practices to employee preferences. The results show there is a significant gap between how employees are currently recognized in the workplace and how they actually want to be recognized: • Only 27 percent who want to be recognized by non-monetary employee incentives, such as award merchandise, gift cards or trips, are recognized that way. • Only 29 percent who want to be recognized by a cash bonus

Sometimes you actually want the customer to walk all over you. That’s the thought behind the personalized, imprinted placemats that Logo Mats brings to the market. When someone enters the threshold of a bank, hotel, restaurant or any other location, the logo and image of the company should be the first thing in sight. With custom-made Logo Mats, we can make that happen. Mats are great for branding a building as well as giveaways to good customers. Whether rubber or carpet, for indoor or outdoor use, our products can really tie a room together and add the finishing touch on a promotion. Enter any