Schawk Reports Net Loss Due to Challenging Americas Market

• Entertainment accounts sales for the third quarter of 2012 of $5.4 million, or 4.9 percent of total sales, decreased 22.5 percent, from $7.0 million in the 2011 period, driven by continued declines in print-related promotional activity.

Gross profit was $39.2 million in the third quarter of 2012, a decline of $2.7 million from the third quarter of 2011. Gross profit as a percentage of sales decreased to 35.4 percent from 37.4 percent in the prior-year period. Lower gross profit percent was driven by the sales decline and previously mentioned investments in expanding the company’s brand development and deployment capabilities.