GATWICK, England, March 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Schawk!, a leading global brand deployment provider that produces and protects brand assets to drive brand profitability, was recently honoured as U.K. 'Supplier of The Year' for 'Best Sales & Marketing Partnership' by Nestle. The award was in recognition of Schawk bringing new ideas to its partnership with Nestle and its delivery of packaging development workflow improvements.

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The Nestle U.K. Supplier of The Year Award for Best Sales and Marketing Partnership was designed to recognise and acknowledge suppliers that exemplify outstanding performance and execution.

Schawk was chosen U.K. Supplier of The Year by Nestle for working so successfully with its Pack Change teams to identify and implement improvements that help the global nutrition, health and wellness company improve its agility, enabling it to respond to changes in consumer demand and market conditions more rapidly.

Rob Moore, managing director at Schawk's Manchester office, said: "To be recognised by one of the world's most admired companies in this manner is quite an honour. It does more than recognise our performance. It affirms Schawk's commitment to helping Nestle identify opportunities to execute workflow changes that support its sales and marketing goals while reducing total cost."

Added Moore, "We work very closely with the Nestle Pack Change teams, offering expertise, helping to manage colour targets and advising on technical constraints at the start of projects to help ensure that the final delivered packaging meets marketing expectations and helps drive brand performance."

Schawk! produces brand assets and protects brand equities to drive brand profitability. Leveraging its 60+ years of industry leadership, Schawk! identifies and deploys scalable solutions to address a brand's complex production and delivery needs through proven expertise in workflow, resourcing, color management and imaging. Schawk! is part of the brand deployment group of SG44K. SGK is a division of Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ GSM: MATW). For more information visit: http://www.schawk.com

Nestle is committed to enhancing the quality of consumers' lives through nutrition, health and wellness. Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night. For more information visit: http://www.nestle.com/

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