Counselor Distributor Choice Awards Finalist

St. Paul, Minn. – www.crystal-d.com - Crystal D, a leading supplier of corporate recognition awards to the promotional products industry, has been selected as a Counselor Distributor Choice Award Finalist in the Awards category for the second consecutive year.

The Counselor Distributor Choice Awards celebrates top performing suppliers in various categories. The ballot is compiled using the Supplier Performance Ratings data, which is submitted by Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) distributors and salespeople. The winners in each category are determined by the votes that are cast by distributors. Voting ended Friday, October 27, 2006. The winners will be announced on January 18, 2007, at the ASI Show Orlando at the Hard Rock Live.

“Crystal D is honored to be a finalist for the Counselor Distributor Choice Awards,” says Chuck Dahlgren, Crystal D president. “Being nominated for two consecutive years by our distributors confirms that we know what our customers want and that we provide the best crystal awards and corporate promotional gifts for their customers. All of us at Crystal D would like to thank the distributors that have nominated us in the past.”

About Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI)
The Advertising Specialty Institute (ASI) is the largest media and marketing organization serving the advertising specialty industry, with a membership of 22,000 distributor firms (sellers) and 3,300 supplier firms (manufacturers) of advertising specialty. Supplier firms use ASI print and electronic resources to market products to more than 130,000 distributor salespeople. Distributor firms use ASI print and electronic resources, which contain more than 750,000 advertising specialties, to locate supplier firms and to market services to end-buyers (promotions and advertising buyers). It provides catalogs, information directories, newsletters, magazines, websites, trade shows, databases, and interactive e-commerce, marketing and selling tools.

About Crystal D
Crystal D has been a leading supplier of corporate awards and recognition products to the promotional product industry for over 15 years. Crystal D offers over 750 elegant and innovative crystal awards, desktop items and corporate gifts. Crystal D maximizes technology to communicate with its promotional product consultants via e-commerce and an online order tracking system. For more information, visit www.crystal-d.com.