Schawk, Inc. Named One of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies and Crain's Chicago Business Top 25 List of Chicago's Fastest-Growing Public Firms

DES PLAINES, IL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 2, 2006 -- Schawk, Inc. (NYSE: SGK), one of the world's leading providers of digital imaging graphic services to the consumer products and brand imaging markets, has been named to the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list for the third consecutive year. Additionally, the Company has been recognized by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the top 25 fastest growing public firms in Chicago.

While Forbes and Crain's Chicago Business use varying criteria to determine their lists, both positive revenue and net income growth are important factors for inclusion.

To be considered for the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies list, companies must have sales between $5 million and $750 million, and a share price above $5 as of Sept. 29 on three-month average volume of 10,000 or more shares. Nominees must also carry profit margins of greater than 5 percent, with positive sales and profit growth, on average, over both the last 5 years and last fiscal year (year ended December 31, 2005 for Schawk). The list appeared in the Oct. 13 edition of Forbes. Schawk was ranked 72.

Crain's Chicago Business list of Chicago's Fastest-Growing Public Firms was determined from a list of the area's largest publicly held companies with annual revenues of more than $5 million, stock prices above $1 as of Dec. 31, 2005, and not traded over the counter. The fastest-growing company rank was determined by the sum of the rankings in revenue and net income growth for the three-year period ended 2005. Schawk was ranked 8.

David A. Schawk, president and chief executive officer, commented, "We are proud and gratified to have received these honors. This recognition reflects the effort of our people to embrace and drive our strategic plan. The Schawk strategic plan, announced in 2003, called for 20 percent annual growth, on average, for the next five years. We are well ahead of our growth targets as a result of our acquisitions and internal growth since 2003. We have been consistent in our approach to the global marketplace and have increased both the breadth of our services and our geographic footprint since we announced our growth goals in 2003. The focused approach to our global growth has resulted in a number of special recognitions including Forbes 200 Best Small Companies, Business Week's The 100 Best Small Companies and Crain's Chicago Business Fastest Growing Public Companies."

Mr. Schawk continued, "We continue to be focused on our strategic goals, and we are committed to our growth targets called for in our Vision 2020 Strategic Plan. Every day we are witnessing more of our clients migrating to global markets. Schawk is uniquely positioned from both a geographic and services standpoint to capitalize on the growing demand for integrated solutions across the globe. To this end, Schawk's offering is also well aligned with the ongoing global requirements for sustainable packaging and environmental responsibility.

"We look forward to the next five years as we position Schawk to be the name that leading companies in the consumer product, retail and advertising markets turn to for consistent planning and execution of visual brand imaging across multiple media applications on a global basis."

Schawk, Inc., headquartered in suburban Chicago, is one of the world's largest independent brand image solutions companies. Schawk delivers a broad range of digital pre-media graphic services through 151 locations in 12 countries across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Schawk designs, creates and manages images and text for reproduction to exact specifications for a variety of media, including packaging for consumer products, point-of-sale displays and other promotional and advertising materials. Schawk provides its services to the food, beverage, health & beauty, pharmaceutical, home care and consumer products industries. For more information, visit www.schawk.com.

Contact Information: AT SCHAWK, INC.: James J. Patterson Sr. VP and CFO 847-827-9494 jpatterson@schawk.com AT DRESNER CORPORATE SERVICES: Philip Kranz 312-726-3600 pkranz@dresnerco.com Steve Carr 312-726-3600 scarr@dresnerco.com