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Contact: Angela Wurst
Phone: 800-544-1131
Email: marketing@crystal-d.com

Crystal D, a Leading Supplier of Corporate Awards and Plaques, Named Distributor Choice Award Finalist

January 15, 2010 – St. Paul, Minn. – www.crystal-d.com – Crystal D was named an ASI Distributor Choice Award finalist in the Awards category.

Crystal D was recognized with this honor for meeting the following criteria:

•Maintaining an overall ASI rating of at least four stars
•Rated by at least 40 distributor firms
•Maintains reports on at least 100 distributor transactions
•Had at least 5% of their overall product line within a specific product category

The top 12 suppliers in each category were named finalists.

Crystal D has been named a Counselor Distributor Choice Award finalist for five years.

About Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI)/Counselor Magazine
The Advertising Specialty Institute, or ASI, has been providing award-winning products and services to the advertising specialty and promotional products industry for over 50 years. ASI publishes print and online business magazines, product catalogs, Web sites and informational directories. The Counselor Distributor Choice Awards program was established in 2001 to name and celebrate the most-valued ASI suppliers in the advertising specialty industry, as determined by ASI distributors.

About Crystal D
Crystal D (www.crystal-d.com) has been a leading supplier of corporate awards to the promotional products industry for more than 15 years. The company offers a total of 1,000+ awards and plaques, seven imprint processes and eight substrates. Crystal D maximizes technology to communicate with promotional product consultants via a highly functional website and an online order tracking system.