Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. announced that it has launched SmartLink Food Safety Monitoring, the most advanced, single-point solution for monitoring of food storage and preparation equipment in the convenience store industry. For convenience store operators, SmartLink Food Safety Monitoring is a cloud-based temperature monitoring solution that ensures greater efficiencies, more control over the quality and freshness of food being served, and access to detailed reports to help protect food quality for their customers and their business while meeting Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines. Through continuous monitoring and recording of cold storage and preparation equipment, operators can analyze performance to identify degrading equipment before a complete failure occurs, thus saving thousands of dollars in inventory and emergency service calls. Additionally, as cold storage and preparation equipment typically accounts for at least 30% of a convenience store's energy costs, the continuous temperature monitoring enables operators to better maintain safe temperatures using as little energy as possible. In addition to consistent, 24/7 reporting and the ability to proactively maintain equipment to predict and prevent failure before it occurs, another major benefit of the SmartLink Food Safety Monitoring solution is ensuring compliance with the Food Modernization Act of 2011. The law calls for a number of provisions, including more frequent inspections and a requirement that food facilities have a written plan outlining possible problem areas and steps the facility would take to prevent these issues. With the SmartLink Food Safety Monitoring solution, convenience store operators have immediate access to reliable data regarding the storage and preparation equipment temperatures whenever that information is required.

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per common share payable on June 15, 2013 to shareholders of record on May 24, 2013. The company reported un-audited consolidated earnings results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. For the quarter, the company reported adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share was $19.4 million and $0.51, respectively compared to adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share of $16.0 million and $0.39, respectively, for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. For the quarter, the company reported GAAP net income attributable to the company of $19.6 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, compared to $13.8 million, or $0.34 per diluted share for the first quarter of 2012. First quarter 2013 GAAP net income from continuing operations attributable to the company, which excludes the gain on the sale of Collective POS in the current quarter, was $15.6 million, or $0.41 per diluted share compared to $13.5 million or $0.33 per diluted share for the last year. The company reported total revenues of $501.2 million compared to $467.6 million, income from operations of $26.8 million compared to $22.8 million, income from continuing operations before income taxes of $25.5 million compared to $21.9 million, net cash used in operating activities of $1.7 million compared to net cash provided by operating activities of $25.2 million, purchases of property and equipment of $11.4 million compared $7.4 million, non-GAAP income from operations of $32.9 million compared to $26.8 million and non-GAAP net income from continuing operations $19.4 million or $0.51 per diluted share compared to $16.0 million or $0.39 per diluted share for the last year. The company continue to expect net revenue to be between approximately $600 million and $610 million. Adjusted net income is expected to be in the range of $2.29 - $2.33, which is net of $0.37 of combined acquisition-related amortization and share-based compensation expense. The company continue to expects GAAP EPS from continuing operations to be in the range $1.92 to $1.96.

Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., Annual General Meeting, May 08, 2013., at 09:00 Eastern Daylight. Location: the Princeton Library, 65 Witherspoon Street. Agenda: To elect seven directors, nominated by the board of directors, to the company’s board of directors for terms expiring at the 2014 annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified as provided in the company’s bylaws; to ratify the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2013; to approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the executive compensation; and to transact any other business that may properly come before the annual meeting or any adjournments or postponements thereof.