Chesapeake Display Business Receives Gillette Omnimark Award for Excellence in Quality and Service.

Business Editors

RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000

Chesapeake Display & Packaging, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Corporation (NYSE: CSK), recently received The Gillette Company's prestigious Omnimark Award.

Chesapeake Display & Packaging designs and manufactures point-of-purchase displays. The annual award, given by Gillette to a select group of its suppliers, rewards a perfect or near-perfect record in providing superior quality and service to the company. Chesapeake Display & Packaging received the award for work done during the 1999 calendar year.

Chesapeake Display & Packaging achieved a 100 percent quality rating and a 98.1 percent service rating, and received high marks for proactive design efforts that provided cost and time savings. Providing Gillette with consistently excellent quality and service throughout the year is the key to consideration for the award.

To receive the award, a Gillette supplier must:

-- exceed $2 million in services or products sold to Gillette;

-- achieve a 99.5 percent minimum quality rating and a 97.5 percent minimum service rating;

-- demonstrate proactive efforts to reduce costs, improve designs and offer technological innovation;

-- demonstrate flexibility in scheduling and responsiveness to Gillette's changing needs.

Octavio Orta, president of Chesapeake Display & Packaging, said, "Gillette's recognition of our capabilities to provide excellent quality and service attests to our employees' commitment and our investment in enterprise planning, technology and other resources which have provided an extra advantage in meeting customers' needs."

In a letter describing the award, Geoff Painting, Gillette's group manager-North American purchasing, wrote to Orta, "You and your associates can be extremely proud of the performance you provided (Gillette) last year. We thank you sincerely, recognizing that Gillette cannot excel in quality and service to our customers without outstanding suppliers such as Chesapeake Display & Packaging."

Orta was in Boston to receive the award on behalf of Chesapeake Display & Packaging on March 15. Approximately 30 companies received the Omnimark award this year, from a supply base of hundreds.

Headquartered in Boston, Mass., The Gillette Company is the world leader in male grooming, a category that includes blades, razors and shaving preparations. Gillette also holds the number one position worldwide in selected female grooming products, such as wet shaving products and hair epilation devices. In addition, the company is the world leader in alkaline batteries, toothbrushes, oral care appliances and correction fluids.

Chesapeake Display & Packaging is based in Winston-Salem, N.C., and with its subsidiary, Consumer Promotions International (CPI), has 13 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. Chesapeake Display and Packaging is one of the largest, full-service, design-display companies in the world.

Chesapeake Corporation, headquartered in Richmond, Va., is a global leader in specialty packaging and merchandising services. Chesapeake is the largest North American producer of temporary and permanent point-of-purchase displays, the leading European folding carton, leaflet and label supplier, and a local leader in specific U.S. markets for customized, corrugated packaging. Chesapeake has over 70 locations in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Chesapeake's net sales in 1999 were $1.2 billion. Chesapeake's website is http://www.cskcorp.com.