SAN ANTONIO — Clarke American, a leading provider of checks and check-related products, contact center services, Internet and direct response marketing solutions for the financial services industry, has honored Mark Slater as a recipient of the Clarke American Passioneer™ Award. Mike Kellett, senior vice president, Partnership Development/Bank of America Division, for Clarke American, presented the award to Slater in a special ceremony designed to recognize the company’s most passionate partner executives.

Passioneer Award recipients are chosen based on their commitment to representing Clarke American’s values of Partnership Excellence – aligning with partners’ goals and strategies, using systemic processes to improve performance, demonstrating responsiveness to individual partner needs and implementing solutions that achieve quality and accountholder-focused results.

“Passioneer Award recipients exemplify how we do business at Clarke American,” says Charles Korbell, Clarke American president and CEO. “Our associates are passionate about delivering service and care that exceeds our financial institution partners’ highest expectations on a daily basis. That passion for service and our commitment to delivering the highest quality products are the ingredients in Clarke American’s marketplace success.”

In his book The Passion Plan at Work: Building a Passion-Driven Organization, author Dr. Richard Chang defines how associate passion can be an essential part of a company’s core strategy. He examines how passion drives performance – turning good companies into great ones. Clarke American was profiled by Dr. Chang among eleven other companies, including Gateway Computers, Southwest Airlines, Earthlink, MindSpring and Disney Institute, as superior in capturing the passion of its people to successfully improve performance in both the workplace and the marketplace.

About Clarke American
Clarke American provides checks and check-related products, contact center services, Internet and direct response marketing solutions for the financial services industry.
Each year, the company produces more than 10 billion personal and business checks in a variety of formats for more than 4,000 banks, credit unions and other financial institutions nationwide. The company has more than 3,200 associates and a national network of electronically linked production facilities and customer service centers located throughout the United States.

Clarke American, is a recipient of the 2001 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the manufacturing category, awarded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and is the recipient of the 2001 Texas Award for Performance Excellence given by the Quality Texas Foundation. Clarke American is a subsidiary of Novar plc of Weybridge, Surrey, England. For more information, visit www.clarkeamerican.com.

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