Ampad Raises Breast Cancer Awareness with New Product Line and Partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation; Pink Ribbon Products Available for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October.

RICHARDSON, Texas -- American Pad & Paper LLC ("Ampad"), a leading manufacturer of paper-based products, announced today a new line of products supporting breast cancer awareness. Ampad also announced a new partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation and a pledge to donate a percentage of the product line's net sales profits to the organization's education and early cancer detection efforts.

Ampad's breast cancer awareness product line includes perforated pads in a variety of sizes, as well as envelopes, a filing combo kit, stationery, invitations and a project planner. Pink accents and the internationally recognized pink ribbon symbolizing breast cancer awareness are featured throughout the product line, such as pink binding and a printed pink ribbon on each page of the writing pads. Merchant product orders are now being accepted and will ship in September to support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October and National Mammography Day on Oct. 21.

The product line was inspired by an Ampad employee's personal experience with breast cancer.

"My mother is a breast cancer survivor who has been in remission for about seven years," said Kathy Martinez, Ampad's Channel Marketing Manager. "Her struggle has been an inspiration for me. After speaking with fellow employees, we felt that our company was in a unique position to do something meaningful to support breast cancer awareness."

"Ampad's breast cancer awareness product line is the direct result of our corporate goal to bring new ideas and products to the marketplace, as well our philosophy of encouraging creativity within our organization," said John Bermingham, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ampad. "We are also very pleased to help raise the public's consciousness of breast cancer issues through our products and through our new relationship with the National Breast Cancer Foundation that is strongly dedicated to educating women and men about this deadly disease."

"Consumers are increasingly seeking ways to personalize the products they use," said Jim O'Donnell, Vice President of Marketing. "Customers will instantaneously identify this product line and the pink ribbon as a means of expression and support for breast cancer awareness, and raising the public's consciousness is the real key to breast cancer prevention because it reminds people to have regular screenings that lead to early detection and more effective treatment."

Janelle Hail, President of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, said, "Our partnership with Ampad delivers an important message of breast cancer early detection to Ampad's customers. We appreciate Ampad taking such a positive initiative to help in the fight against breast cancer."

According to the foundation, this year in America, more than 211,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 43,300 will lose their lives to the disease. One woman in eight either has or will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In addition, 1,600 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 400 will die this year. If detected early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 95 percent. Mammograms are among the best early detection methods, yet 13 million women in the United States who are 40 years of age or older have never had a mammogram.

For more information about breast cancer, visit the National Breast Cancer Foundation Web site at www.nationalbreastcancer.org.

To find a sales representative that sells Ampad products, please call 1-800-426-1368. To learn more about Ampad's breast cancer awareness products and other product solutions, visit www.ampad.com.

About Ampad

Ampad is a leading manufacturer and distributor of writing pads, filing supplies, retail envelopes and specialty papers and serves many of the largest and fastest growing office products retailers and distributors in North America. Additional information on Ampad can be found at www.ampad.com.