Cintas to Provide Free Shredding Services During Protect Your Identity Week, October 17-23

The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 10 million Americans have their identities stolen each year. To help consumers fight against identity theft, Cintas Corporation has teamed up with the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CBBB) and the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) as the national document management partner for the third annual Protect Your Identity Week. Beginning on Sunday, October 17, the week will consist of more than 175 identity theft education and protection events across the nation with free shredding services powered by Cintas at participating locations. For a list of all locations, please visit the map at www.ProtectYourIDNow.org.

In addition, on Saturday, October 23, in select cities, community members are invited to help break the Guinness World Record™ for most paper shredded in 24 hours. Anyone can participate by bringing personal documents they wish to have securely destroyed by Cintas to their local event. Participating cities include Irvine, Calif., Southfield, Mich. and Cherry Hill, N.J.

"Identity theft is a serious problem and we are thrilled to team up with the CBBB and NFCC to create national awareness and provide our secure shredding services to consumers across the nation,” said Karen Carnahan, President and COO, Cintas Document Management. "We are also excited to take a stand against identity theft by uniting with community members to break a Guinness World Record™.”

During Protect Your Identity Week, consumers are invited to take advantage of identity theft protection education opportunities including free identity theft workshops and credit report reviews. In addition, anyone can bring their documents to have them shredded by an on-site, certified Cintas employee at participating locations. From drop-off to destruction, all documents will be constantly monitored and protected.

Additionally, all of the shredded documents will be recycled into secondary paper products to reduce waste and impact on the environment. In doing so, the community will save trees, energy and water while reducing green house gas emissions. Just one ton of recycled wastepaper can generate 6,870 rolls of regular household bathroom tissue.

"Protect Your Identity Week is dedicated to providing consumers with the education, tools and resources they need to protect themselves against identity theft,” said Bob Ensinger, COO, NFCC. "We are pleased to team up with Cintas this year to provide attendees with shredding services held to the highest standard of security.”

Cintas is the first North American AAA NAID-certified and PCI DSS compliant document management provider. Cintas provides cost-effective document shredding, storage and imaging programs. Its services are designed to provide businesses with data privacy and security, compliance with regulatory requirements and greater control and access to information.

"We are excited to kick off Protect Your Identity Week and shred enough confidential documents to break a Guinness World Record™,” said Stephen A. Cox, President and CEO of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. "With the combined forces of our organizations, we hope to have the most successful event to date and prevent sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands.”

For more information about Protect Your Identity Week, please visit www.ProtectYourIDNow.org.

For more information about Cintas document management services, visit www.cintas.com/documentmanagement.

About Cintas Corporation:

Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types. Cintas designs, manufactures and implements corporate identity uniform programs, and provides entrance mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, first aid and safety products, fire protection services and document management services to approximately 800,000 businesses. Cintas is a publicly held company traded over the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol CTAS, and is a Nasdaq-100 company and component of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.