Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (NYSE: PPD) reported new memberships produced and new sales associates enrolled for the fourth quarter and for the year ended December 31, 2009. During the 4th quarter of 2009, new sales associates enrolled increased 89.4% to 61,623 from the 32,533 enrolled in the 4th quarter of 2008 and new memberships produced increased 11.8% to 148,248 during the 2009 quarter compared to 132,641 for the 2008 quarter.
For the year 2009, new sales associates enrolled increased 52.2% to 186,064 compared to 122,255 enrolled during 2008 while new memberships produced were 568,095, up 2.9% from 552,327. Our active memberships decreased less than 1.0% during 2009 from 1,559,154 to 1,547,585. From the 3rd quarter of 2009 to the 4th quarter of 2009, our active memberships increased by 2,030 memberships.
