NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
BY ENTERING THE SWEEPSTAKES YOU AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING RULES

How To Enter: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00 am Eastern Time (“ET”) on July 1, 2008 and ends at 11:59 pm ET on November 10, 2008 (“Promotion Period”). During the Promotion Period, send an email to skerwin@gish.com with your first name, last name, address and phone number and attach a photo that depicts your favorite use for Ty-Rap® cable ties or include in the body of your email a short statement of 50 words or less describing your favorite use for Ty-Rap® (an “Entry”). By entering, you agree that your Entry may be published by the Sponsor in any medium. To be eligible, the Entry must: 1) be complete; 2) include a photo or statement depicting or describing your favorite use for Ty-rap® cable ties; and 3) if including a photo, the photo must be a .jpeg or .gif file, with a file size of no larger than 5MB. Each Entry will be eligible only for the weekly drawing corresponding with the time of receipt of the Entry. Weekly drawing periods will begin each Tuesday at 12:00 am ET during the Promotion Period and end on each following Monday at 11:59 pm ET. Entries will not be carried forward for subsequent weekly drawings. Limit one entry per person per drawing period. Sponsor’s computer system is the official time keeping device for the Sweepstakes. Use of any automated system to submit entries is prohibited and will result in disqualification. All Entries become the sole property of Sponsor and none will be acknowledged or returned.

Specific Rules Regarding the Content of Entries: All Entries must be original and free from any claim of copyright. By submitting an Entry, you represent that the photo or statement included in your Entry does not infringe, misappropriate or violate the rights of any third party, and that (i) each photo or statement is a work of your original authorship, or (ii) you have exclusive legal rights to publish each photo or statement included in your Entry. The Sponsor has the sole discretion to determine whether a photo qualifies as an Entry. Any Entry that appears to have resulted in any injury or bodily harm or that, in Sponsor’s opinion, has the potential to cause any injury or bodily harm will be disqualified. Any Entry that is, in the Sponsor’s sole discretion, offensive, obscene, profane, lewd, defamatory, contains any third party materials, or otherwise violates or infringes (or may infringe) any copyright or trademark that identifies a brand (other than Ty-Rap) or other proprietary right of any person living or deceased (including but not limited to rights of privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light) or entity, or is otherwise objectionable, will be disqualified. Any Entry not in compliance with the above or which does not meet the requirements of these Official Rules will be disqualified. All Entries submitted become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. By entering the Sweepstakes you irrevocably convey and assign all right, title and interest in and to your Entry, any inventions embodied in your Entry and all copyrights associated with your Entry to Thomas & Betts Corporation (the “Sponsor”), who thereby shall have the right to reduce to practice, publish, display, edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, promote and otherwise use your Entry in any way it sees fit, including, but not limited to, use in any advertising and promotional materials (visual, print and/or electronic form) and posting Entries on its website and non-affiliated websites.

Eligibility: Sweepstakes open only to legal residents of the U.S. who use Ty-Rap cable tiles in the course of their business and are 18 years of age or older as of date of entry. Employees of Thomas & Betts Corporation and its subsidiary companies, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee, are not eligible.

Prizes/Random Drawings: {19 – 1 prize per week} A Garmin Nuvi 200 GPS (Approximate retail value $267.95 each) or an 80GB Apple iPod Classic (Approximate retail value $249.00 each). Specific Prize will be awarded at Sponsor’s sole discretion. One winner per week (as defined above) will be selected in weekly random drawings from among all eligible Entries received during each weekly drawing period. Drawings will be conducted on or about each Wednesday following each drawing period (from July 9, 2008 through November 12, 2008) by Don Jagoda Associates, Inc., an independent judging organization whose decisions are final on all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received per week. Prizes will be awarded “as is” without warranty or guarantee of any kind. Prizes will be awarded and winners will be notified by email and/or mail. Limit one prize per person/household. Prizes are nontransferable and no substitution is allowed except by the Sponsor who reserves the right to award a prize of equal or greater value if any advertised prize is unavailable.

General Rules: This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Payment of all federal, state and local taxes related to the receipt of any prize is the responsibility of the individual prize winner. Winners will be required to verify address within 10 days of notification attempt or the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. Return of any prize or prize notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and alternate selection. Winning is contingent on fulfilling all requirements set forth in these Official Rules. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to use winners’ names, likenesses, photographs, statements, voices, opinions and/or hometown and states/provinces/countries for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration except where prohibited by law. Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges. By submitting an Entry, attempting to submit an Entry or otherwise participating in the Sweepstakes you agree that the Sponsor, its subsidiaries, affiliates and advertising/promotion agencies, and each such company’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) will have no liability whatsoever for, and will be held harmless from any liability for any injury, loss or damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, injury to persons (including death) or property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the receipt, acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize, or from participation in this Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or the Sweepstakes web site; violates the Official Rules; or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the Entries in the Sweepstakes. Sponsor is not responsible for any damage to any participant's computer in connection with accessing or downloading any information from Sponsor's Web site. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel the Sweepstakes if it becomes technically corrupted, and award applicable prizes from all eligible online entries received prior to cancellation. As a condition of entering the Sweepstakes, you agree that: 1) you waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and all other damages of any nature whatsoever, other than out-of-pocket expenses; 2) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and 3) any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys fees. By submitting a photo or statement, you hereby grant the Sponsor, its advertising and promotional agencies, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, licensees, and legal representatives the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to use, reproduce, edit, market, store, distribute, have distributed, reproduce, re-arrange, change, add to or delete from, translate, adapt or otherwise revise and/or alter the photograph/statement, or blur or distort any person, place or item depicted in the photo or statement, publicly and privately display, communicate, transmit, create derivative works based upon, and promote the photo or statement, for editorial, commercial, promotional and all other purposes.

Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the sweepstakes or the sweepstakes web site; violates the Official Rules; or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the Entries in the sweepstakes. Sponsor is not responsible for any damage to entrant's computer in connection with accessing or downloading any information from Sponsor's Web site. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel the sweepstakes if it becomes technically corrupted, and award applicable prizes from all eligible online entries received prior to cancellation. As a condition of entering the sweepstakes, participant (or parent/legal guardian if participant is a minor in his/her state of residence) agrees that: 1) under no circumstance will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and participant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, consequential or any other damages, other than for out-of-pocket expenses; 2) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this sweepstakes, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and 3) any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event attorneys fees. By submitting an Entry, you represent: (a) that the photo/statementgraph is your own original work that has not previously been published or publicly shown or won a prize or award; (b) all rights to the photograph/statement belong to you and the photograph/statement does not infringe, misappropriate or violate the rights of any third party. By submitting a photograph/statement, you hereby grant the Sponsor, its advertising and promotional agencies, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, licensees, and legal representatives the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to use, reproduce, edit, market, store, distribute, have distributed, reproduce, re-arrange, change, add to or delete from, translate, adapt or otherwise revise and/or alter the photograph/statement or blur or distort the entrant or any place or item depicted in the photograph/statement, or any display thereof, publicly and privately display, communicate, publicly and privately perform, transmit, have transmitted, create derivative works based upon, and promote the photograph/statement, for editorial, commercial, promotional and all other purposes. In addition, you hereby assign to the Sponsor all rights, titles, and interests in and to the photograph/statement and any derivative work using or incorporating the photograph/statement.

Limitations of Liability: By submitting an Entry, attempting to submit an Entry or otherwise participating in the Sweepstakes you agree that the Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the sweepstakes or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If, for any reason, an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the sweepstakes, provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the sweepstakes, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded.

Disputes: These Rules and all matters arising out of or related to Sweepstakes Entries shall all be interpreted in accordance with and governed by the substantive laws of the state of Tennessee, without reference to the conflicts of laws principles thereof. Each entrant expressly consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state courts located in Shelby County Tennessee for the adjudication of all disputes concerning these rules, the Sweepstakes and any Sweepstakes Entry, and waives all objections to the jurisdiction, venue and convenience of such courts.

Winners List: For the names of the winners, visit www.tyrap50years.com between December 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008.

Sponsor/Administrator: The Sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Thomas & Betts Corporation,
8155 T&B Boulevard 3A-16, Memphis, TN 38125. The administrator of this Sweepstakes is Don Jagoda Associates, Inc., 100 Marcus Drive, Melville, NY 11747.

“How Do You Use Ty-Rap” Winners

• G. Lutz - Gibsonia, PA
• J. Moss - Beachwood, OH
• P. LaDue - Hancock, NY
• C. Gravning - Milwaukee, WI
• C. Moody - Fishers, IN
• G. Jepsen - Gloversville, NY
• K. Stross - Benicia, CA
• F. Augustin - Evanston, IL
• J. Thomson - Virginia Beach, VA
• D. Malm - Lindenhurst, NY
• T.Wethern - Allston, MA
• W. Cox - Weaverville, NC
• N. Mason - Egg Harbor City, NJ
• M. Walthall - Henderson, NC
• M. Stack - Orchard Park, NY
• C. Wiggins - Sanford, FL
• C. Dacus - Flowery Branch, GA
• J. Toce - West Allis, WI
• W. McEntire - Lula, GA

“What's Next” Sweepstakes Winners:

• G. Cole - Minneapolis, MN
• L. Sellers - Knoxville, TN
• S. Hirsch - Kingston, NY
• R. Taylor - Orangeville, CA
• R. Claude - Kodak, TN
• A. Howell - Selma, NC
• E. Perkins - Dayton, OH
• J. Allen - Brooklyn Park, MN
• S. Reynolds - Mount Pleasant, TX
• C. O'Brien - Joliet, IL
• G. Hillis - Huntsville, AL
• J. Dillon - Binghamton, NY
• P. Bernard - Waterloo, IA
• C. Bracken - Fairbanks, AK
• J. Singer - Springfield, MO
• J. Perez - Charlotte, NC
• C. Lynch - Brooklyn, NY
• B. Mitchell - Kintersville, PA
• P. Jones - Kansas City, MO
• J. DeMars - Superior, WI