Cintas Announces First-Quarter Results

Cincinnati-based Cintas Corporation reported results for its first quarter of fiscal 2009, which ended on August 31, 2008. Revenue for the quarter was $1 billion, an increase of five percent over the first quarter revenue in fiscal 2008, on a comparable workday basis. Without this workday adjustment, revenue increased 3.4 percent. Net income, which was also impacted by the lesser number of workdays, was $78.6 million, a three percent decrease from the prior year first quarter.