Rent-A-Center Raises Qtr. Dividend from $0.16 to $0.21/Share

Rent-A-Center, Inc. (the “Company”)

, the nation's largest rent-to-own operator, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a 31% increase in its quarterly cash dividend from $0.16 per share to $0.21 per share, beginning with the dividend for the first quarter of 2013. The Company declared its eleventh consecutive cash dividend: a $0.21 per share cash dividend for the first quarter of 2013 to be paid to the Company's common stockholders. The dividend will be paid on January 24, 2013, to common stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 3, 2013.