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For Immediate Release

ASI® Announces Lon McGowan

Named to the 2008 Counselor® HOT List

Counselor Magazine Honored Hot People, Trends and Products at ASI Chicago Show

Seattle, WA – July 10, 2008 - Advertising Specialty Institute®, the largest media and marketing organization serving the $19.6 billion advertising specialty industry, announced today that Lon McGowan was named to the 2008 Counselor magazine’s first annual HOT List.

Honorees appearing on the Counselor HOT list from ASI were revealed at an exclusive event at the ASI Chicago show, and represent the hottest, hippest and most dynamic people in the industry.   

“The Counselor HOT list is new this year,” said Timothy M. Andrews, president and chief executive officer for ASI.  “The advertising specialty industry is always changing and providing creative, innovative and exciting products and services.  These individuals are the industry’s trend-setters and they are being recognized for their ability to be successful by introducing new, fun and innovative things in the marketplace.”

“Congratulations to the individuals earning spots on Counselor’s HOT list,” said Melinda Ligos, editor in chief and vice president of professional development for ASI.  “Each of our honorees have their own unique way of shaking up the industry – whether it’s with cool products, new trends and initiatives or advanced technological approaches to their marketing and services.”

For the complete list of the Counselor HOT List honorees, and photos from the event, visit www.asicentral.com/hotpartyphotos.   

About iClick

iClick is known throughout the industry for exceptional customer service and quality USB flash drives.  All of us at iClick are dedicated to making wonderful things happen for our clients.  And that’s just fun business.  In fact, iClick was named the #1 Best Place To Work by Counselor magazine in 2008 (click here to read).  It just goes to show that happy iClickers means happy customers.  We have received many awards for our outstanding customer service including a 5 Star ASI supplier rating and an A+ SAGE supplier rating.

Founded in 2001, iClick is the leading supplier of custom USB flash Drives and USB drive duplication services to the ad specialties market.  Based in Seattle, WA, our integrated production facility includes multi-color decoration machines, custom packaging stations, and proprietary designed data preloading machines.  We have the largest USB drive inventory in North America and a 24 hour production on those in-stock drives.  All of our data preloads are done on site in the USA so you can be assured that your sensitive data is not sent to a foreign factory or trading partner. In addition, all of our drives come with a Lifetime Replacement Warranty. We are proud to be members of all promotional product associations including ASI, PPAI, PPAC, and SAGE and we work exclusively through promotional product distributors.  When you think custom USB drives think iClick!

About ASI

Advertising Specialty Institute is the largest media and marketing organization serving the advertising specialty industry, with a membership of over 25,000 distributor firms (sellers) and supplier firms (manufacturers) of advertising specialties.  Supplier firms use ASI print and electronic resources to market products to over 21,000 ASI distributor firms.  Distributor firms use ASI print and electronic resources, which contain nearly every product in the industry from more than 3,500 reputable suppliers, to locate supplier firms and to market services to buyers.  ASI provides catalogs, information directories, newsletters, magazines, websites and databases, and offers e-commerce, marketing and selling tools.  Visit www.asicentral.com.

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