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Think Plastic and Grow Rich
February 1, 2004

Plastic products redefine their role in the industry. It has become so intertwined with our lives that we often overlook its significance. We find it in various formats necessary for the ease of monetary transactions, efficient luggage tracking, coast-to-coast calling and room privacy. All-purpose plastic has transformed itself into a plethora of products that make life a whole lot easier. The plastic card has carved a clear and definite path for itself in the plastic products industry. "Plastic cards represent over 80 percent of our printed plastic division's annual revenue," said Dean Boustead, sales manager for Allegheny Printed Plastics, a plastic card manufacturer and

CPI Card Group Captures ?lan Award
December 23, 2003

CPI Card Group, Littleton, Colo., has received the Élan Award for the best non-financial card design for the card manufacturing excellence category. CPI's winning entry was a Starbucks Coffee Company stored value gift card featuring animated artwork of a Vespa scooter and patrons drinking coffee outside an Italian bistro. CPI Card Group also was chosen as one of two finalists for the People's Choice Élan Award for Card Manufacturing for its pink glitter Aeropostale gift card. This card is fashioned with a unique particulate PVC, which is produced exclusively by Reno Plastics, a sister company of CPI based in Reno, Nev. In other news, CPI Card