Healthy, Wealthy & Well

HEALTH-RELATED MARKETING messages may be among the most persistent and ever-present of the modern era. Lose weight, eat right and quit smoking. Get six-pack abs, remember to wash your hands and watch out for restless leg syndrome. Try this new form of diabetes testing, this new multivitamin or this new sleeping aid.

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To a Tee

One of the most diverse items in the promotional industry, T-shirts present so many buying decisions that picking out the right one can be daunting. The number of choices are sure to increase as innovation introduces new kinds of T-shirts, like those made from transitional or slub cotton, with more and more frequency. Add the ever-changing winds of fashion to the decision mix, and picking the right tee for a given promotion can quickly become complicated.

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Another One Bytes the Dust

THEY ARE AMONG the only products we receive (sometimes at great expense) and immediately gush over them, embrace them and show them off to friends or even strangers. A year later, we decide the models we have are antiquated and toss them in the trash.

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Presidents Day Promotions

THE UNIFORM MONDAY Holiday Act was signed into law on June 28, 1968, mandating that certain federal holidays be moved from fixed dates to specifically designated Mondays. Why, you may ask, would the government spend taxpayer time and money moving holidays from their traditional dates to arbitrarily assigned Mondays?

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Sunny Days Are Here Again?

ACCORDING TO THE U.S. Travel Association, a nonprofit travel industry group based in Washington, the travel industry shed approximately 400,000 jobs in the past two years. This number is significant for a market that accounts for 7.7 million U.S. jobs and indirectly affects 10 million others.

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Cintas Corporation Announces Increased Annual Dividend

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.

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