Schawk (www.schawk.com), a world leading graphics production company, has won the prestigious EFTA (European Flexographic Technical Association) Repro Company of the Year award for 2010. Now in its 30th year, the EFTA awards are an established industry event celebrating excellence in production and reprographics.
The judges recognised Schawk for the outstanding quality of its reprographics and for its contribution to a significant number of the gold winning print awards. In addition, Schawk was nominated for EFTA’s 2010 Supplier of the Year award. The winner is chosen from reprographics companies right across Europe.
The Gala Dinner to celebrate the Best in Flexography Print and Graphics took place at the Royal Armouries Leeds, where over 500 leading industry figures gathered to see the top awards for the work of the last year.
Speaking after the award was announced Schawk’s European Managing Director, Matt Bennett, said: “I am delighted that the team’s expertise and commitment has been recognised through this award. We have worked extremely hard to deliver real industry excellence over the last few years and it’s really fantastic to see this coming through and recognised with prestigious organisations like EFTA seeing and valuing what we are doing.”
Schawk has operations right across the globe and a client base that includes most of the world’s leading brands and print groups. Schawk’s four core businesses: Anthem Worldwide (branding and design) Schawk Graphic Services (premedia, photography, retouching, 3D imaging, large format printing), Schawk Retail Marketing, and Schawk Digital Solutions – all specialise in providing products and services that meet the needs of brand owners, retailers and printers. Schawk is pioneering the development of Brand Point Management – a concept which improves costs, consistency and time to market. In Europe Schawk has operations in Manchester, London and Newcastle plus on the continent in Belgium, Holland, Poland, Spain and Germany.
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About Schawk
Schawk, Inc. is the leading provider of brand management services, enabling companies of all sizes to connect their brands with consumers to create deeper brand affinity. With a global footprint of 48 offices, Schawk helps companies create compelling and consistent brand experiences by providing integrated strategic, creative and executional services across brand touch points. Founded in 1953, Schawk is trusted by many of the world’s leading organizations to help them achieve global brand consistency. For more information about Schawk, visit http://www.schawk.com Follow Schawk on http://www.brandsquare.com and http://twitter.com/BrandSquare.
- Susan Perolls 01-04-2010
