SharePoint 2013: Add text or image between suite bar in Ribbon

Environment: SharePoint 2013 Enterprise

Requirement: Add text or image between suite bars.

Solution:

Edit the master page using SharePoint Designer and add <div> tags with banner text or images as required. The following code snippet is from the out of the box seattle.master page. Text that are highlighted are inserted between the suite bars.

<div id="suiteBar" class="ms-dialogHidden noindex" >
  <div id="suiteBarLeft">
<div class="ms-table ms-fullWidth">
<div class="ms-tableRow">
<div class="ms-tableCell ms-verticalAlignMiddle">
<SharePoint:DelegateControl id="ID_SuiteBarBrandingDelegate" ControlId="SuiteBarBrandingDelegate" runat="server"/>
</div>
<div class="ms-tableCell ms-verticalAlignMiddle" style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;color:#FF3300;"> [[[
 SOME BANNER IMAGES ]]] </div>
<SharePoint:AjaxDelta runat="server" id="DeltaSuiteLinks" BlockElement="true" CssClass="ms-core-deltaSuiteLinks">
<div id="suiteLinksBox">
<SharePoint:DelegateControl id="ID_SuiteLinksDelegate" ControlId="SuiteLinksDelegate" runat="server" />
</div>                                                                                                             
</SharePoint:AjaxDelta>
<div class="ms-tableCell ms-verticalAlignMiddle" style="text-align:center; font-weight:bold;color:#FF3300;">
 [[[ SOME BANNER TEXT ]]] </div>
</div></div>
</div>

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To insert a row below the Suite bar:

<SharePoint:ThemedClusteredHoverImage  runat="server"
........................
……………………
</span>
</div>
</SharePoint:AjaxDelta>
</div>
</div>
<div id="s4-ribbonrow ms-verticalAlignMiddle"
 style="text-align:center;font-size:large;font-weight:bold; background-color:#6699FF;">[[ SOME SAMPLE TEXT/BANNER ]]</div>
<div id="ms-hcTest"></div>
<div id="s4-ribbonrow">
<div id="globalNavBox" class="noindex">
<div id="ribbonBox">
  <div id="s4-ribboncont">
 <SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaSPRibbon" BlockElement="true" runat="server">
<SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ID="GlobalDelegate0" ControlId="GlobalSiteLink0" />
<SharePoint:SPRibbon  runat="server" PlaceholderElementId="RibbonContainer" CssFile="" >
<SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent  runat="server" CssClass="ms-core-defaultFont ms-dialogHidden" Location="TabRowLeft">                                  
</SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent>

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Create appropriate CSS classes and add to the style sheet.