Schawk Slips into Net Loss for Second Quarter

• Entertainment accounts sales for the second quarter of 2012 of $5.7 million, or 4.9 percent of total sales, decreased 21.7 percent, from $7.2 million in the 2011 period, driven by continued declines in print-related promotional activity.

Gross profit was $39.8 million in the second quarter of 2012, a decline of $1.7 million from the second quarter of 2011. Gross profit as a percentage of sales decreased to 34.3 percent from 36.7 percent in the prior-year period.