Tamworth, UK, September 5, 2017 – Industry’s leading provider of artwork management solutions, Kallik, today announced that it has surpassed bold growth targets set for its previous fiscal year with the delivery of its AMS360Print solution into three major new clients, each delivering class leading products into heavily regulated markets. Being leaders in pharmaceutical, medical device and chemicals markets, each has selected Kallik to underpin their roll-out of enterprise wide business transformation projects to reduce time to market, eliminate wastage and increase levels of compliance. Commenting on this achievement, Neil Gleghorn, Kallik’s Founder and CEO stated: “Our success is the result of staying focused on our core markets rather than allowing ourselves to be distracted by short term, less strategic opportunities.” “In delivering products into highly competitive markets, each of these organisations is faced with similar challenges” says Gleghorn. “Whether being a supplier of Pharmaceutical, Medical Device or Petrochemical products, demonstrating full compliance against both global and local legislation, ensuring brand consistency and being protected from the threat of counterfeit activities are all equally important. We are delighted to have been chosen as the vendor to enable each organisation to modernize their labelling processes and to standardize global printed label production across both B2B and B2C markets.”

Kallik’s AMS360Print solution enables organisations to store, index and version control all labelling related content both textural including translations and graphical as unique digital assets, resulting in there only ever being one version of the truth. Once approved, these content assets are infinitely re-usable across all types of media and labelling, whether printed or electronic. Being cloud-based, users and print resources can connect to the system from anywhere in the world, removing the traditional constraints imposed by firewalls and restricted VPN access. This vastly simplifies engagement with internal and external design houses and manufacturing facilities. Organisations seeking to increase their presence in emerging markets by engaging with 3rd party manufacturers and distributors can compromise visibility across the supply chain. Having centralised control of each printed label makes it easier to identify any discrepancies between the quantity of products sold and bulk shipment of materials.

By enabling 3rd parties to print labels directly from the Kallik solution, including serialised identifiers if required, vastly reduces the risk of counterfeit products being sold on to end customers. Gleghorn continues; “As organisations operating in highly regulated industries, all were facing very similar challenges to those experienced by our others prior to adopting our solution. Often, we find multiple instances of Excel spreadsheets distributed via email to capture content which can become uncontrolled or worst still, lost. Ultimately, the final approved version of the artwork can be the PDF created by an external studio that can change significantly from the original content and requirements specified by regulatory. This lack of transparency and traceability can result in a lack of accountability and ultimately risk non-compliance.” Also commenting on these recent successes, Ashley Goldie, Kallik’s Sales and Marketing Director adds “We are delighted to have been selected by such high-profile clients within their industry sectors. This demonstrates clear confidence in our ability to deliver an outstanding level of performance into organisations that define themselves by market leading products and global success.” 

Tamworth, UK – 10 April 2018 – Global provider of labeling and artwork management solutions, Kallik, are delighted to announce Ashley Goldie as its new Managing Director.   Ashley’s new position is in line with the company’s strategy of organic growth, which sees experienced employees from within continue to progress, innovate and provide a committed service to Kallik’s target markets. His appointment comes at a time of development for Kallik, who are looking to expand its premises this year and engage in a recruitment drive to source employees who have the same ethos and industry focus as the solutions provider.

With nearly 30 years working internationally with major life science and branded organisations, Ashley has spent the last eight years as Kallik’s Sales and Marketing Director. Within that period, he has quadrupled turnover, gained invaluable insight into labelling and customer requirements and successfully positioned Kallik as a key leading provider in highly regulated sectors - Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Cosmetic and Chemical. “I am delighted to be given this opportunity,” he comments. “I look forward to the challenge of overcoming the transformational differences these heavily regulated industries are facing by delivering products of superior value, quality and performance whilst staying compliant across highly competitive global markets."

One of Ashley’s first actions, was to announce two further promotions within the company. Dave Tarbuck, who has been with Kallik over eight years, has been named as the new Global Client Services Director and Rob Woodall has been appointed Technical Director. Rob previously fulfilled the role of Lead Architect, having been with the company since 2007. Ashley continues: “Both will bring invaluable know-how, expertise and commitment to their respective roles and exemplify Kallik’s process of internal growth. We aim as a team and company to continue to stay innovative and forward-thinking as the leading global labelling content management and artwork generation solutions provider for regulated industries.”

Ashley will look to build upon the team’s experience and knowledge, offering guidance and direction to the company’s focus. Building robust, scalable solutions that will satisfy the rigorous demands of global corporations in the heavily relegated sectors. These solutions streamline labelling content into a seamless artwork process, which helps businesses to remove duplication, track content and efficiently change messaging to respond to new markets and regulatory changes – in print and online. 

Tamworth, UK – 13 June 2019 – Global provider of labeling and artwork management solutions, Kallik, is launching an update to its Veraciti (AMS360) solution – its Release 6, transforming the experience of the business user, whilst defining new benchmarks for speed, accuracy, and efficiency of global labelling and artwork processes. More complex and competitive marketplaces, weaker margins, and increasing enforcement of regulations, place ever-increasing challenges on managing larger and more diverse product portfolios across ever-developing channels. Being able to prove compliance is paramount within labeling.

With Release 6, not only are diverse product portfolios centralized in one single cloud-based platform, achieving transparency across all channels, but compliance can be demonstrated within seconds. For the first time, global organizations are able to derive printed and electronic labeling from one integrated solution. Release 6 is driven by the latest web technologies, maximizing user experience whilst providing greater data oversight and transparency. A brand-new user interface simplifies content collation whilst providing greater visibility of assigned tasks and progress. Responding to demands for more tailored products and local market regulations, the solution delivers greater volumes of components that can be assigned to a labeling project without any degradation in performance.

Ashley Goldie, Managing Director of Kallik, said: “Global organizations now have the ability to source an integrated solution which provides complete oversight and data transparency across both printed and electronic labeling. Not only is a faster user experience being offered with this update, it also brings new productivity gains to activities such as data capture, content collation and impact analysis. “Release 6 of Veraciti (AMS360) redefines the benchmarks for accuracy and efficiency of global labeling. With organizations seeking to derive greater efficiencies whilst continuing to satisfy increasingly stringent legislation and regulation, we truly believe it is a very needed and necessary solution.” Release 6 adheres to these principles by eliminating costly and inefficient processes, reducing risk of non-compliance, enabling optimal use of labeling resources across the entire global organization. 

FPE Capital invests in Kallik, the gold standard in Labeling and Artwork Management Cloud Software solutions to the Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Chemicals sectors.

Labeling and Artwork Management specialist, Kallik, has today confirmed it has completed the sale of its business to FPE Capital, a leading UK growth equity investor in specialist technology companies offering differentiated products or services that are critical to their customers. Kallik is recognized by Gartner as a world leader, delivering traceability and faster time to market across the entire labelling and artwork regulatory supply chain, reducing the time taken to respond to new market and regulatory driven labeling changes and minimizing the risk of non-compliance.

Kallik’s proven, innovative, automated artwork platform, Veraciti, underpins the businesses of global regulated companies including Cardinal Health, Integra, Teleflex, Molnlycke, Coloplast, Diversey, Mary Kay and Exxon Mobil. FPE is augmenting the existing successful Kallik team with a seasoned executive team to accelerate growth. David Bennett, former CEO at FPE Capital investee company, Inforsense, and former President, Sales and Marketing at Zinc Ahead, a high-growth compliance SaaS provider to the pharmaceutical industry will join the business as CRO. John Hawkins, an experienced software executive and former Chair of FPE investment Kallidus, has also joined the Board as Non-Executive Chairman.

David Barbour, Managing Partner at FPE, commented: “FPE are delighted to have completed the buyout of Kallik, a visionary business addressing regulated industries on a global scale. Our expertise is focussed on delivering accelerated growth in companies operating in large markets that are experiencing change. We recognise those characteristics here and are excited to be partnering with Ash, David and John to take advantage of that shift.”

Ashley Goldie, Managing Director of Kallik comments: “I’m delighted to announce this news today which heralds exciting times ahead for both our customers and our employees. FPE Capital’s investment demonstrates complete confidence in both our products and our forward revenue projections.  The acquisition will accelerate the ambitious growth of our business across all areas, including our technologies, infrastructure and people and provides access to a team of specialists with a proven track record in delivering outstanding growth and expansion into new markets and territories.”

Gurdip Singh, David Bennett and several other senior management appointments deepen Kallik’s life sciences expertise, as trusted enterprise labeling becomes a strategic priority in regulated markets

Birmingham, UK, February 19th, 2020 – Enterprise Labeling leader Kallik has lined up a powerful new leadership team as the company prepares for its next wave of growth. It has also unveiled new branding, as trusted enterprise labeling becomes a strategic and critical priority in regulated, safety-sensitive markets.

Capitalizing on this trend, Chief Executive Officer Gurdip Singh and Chief Commercial Officer David Bennett will drive ambitious new expansion plans at Kallik, whose Enterprise Labeling solutions are ideally suited to the challenge. The company, a recognized international leader in helping brands transform global artwork and labeling creation and lifecycle management, has adopted the new mantra – ‘Trust in your label, trust in your brand’ – emphasizing the increasingly critical role global labeling consistency and quality plays in market confidence and public trust. This is particularly the case in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical device, chemicals and cosmetics.

Gurdip is a deeply-experienced practitioner and leader in life sciences company transformation. Before taking up his new CEO role at Kallik, he held senior life sciences industry leadership roles at CSC, then DXC Technology. Very much a people focused, hands-on leader, Gurdip has an impressive track record of driving organizational transformation in heavily-regulated industries, across leadership, governance and complex program delivery, in advisory and practitioner roles over the last decade.

David, who most recently served as VP of Strategy at Veeva Systems Europe, brings 30 years international software industry, life sciences and healthcare leadership experience to his new role at Kallik. His deep pharmaceutical market understanding, specifically in relation to complex global content management and compliance, gives him a detailed appreciation of the enterprise packaging and labeling challenges faced by Kallik’s clients. David previously led Documentum’s operations in Europe.

Welcoming his latest challenge, Gurdip commented, “Kallik has enviable, mature and advanced enterprise labeling capabilities and a strong team supported by a bold and exciting roadmap. That sets us up perfectly to meet the challenges of labeling and packaging for medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetics companies all over the globe, allowing them to achieve greater consistency and integrity in critical global processes.

“I look forward to bringing my business transformation, change management and modern technology experience to bear, and getting Kallik to its next stage of success. Our rebranding focuses attention on the importance of trust in the brands and labels of our customers; Kallik offers a very powerful proposition here which puts us in an ideal position for a transformational next stage of business growth. I am particularly passionate about the user experience, so will be continuously on the lookout for new ways to improve this for customers.”

Concurring with these sentiments, David added, “I am delighted to be working at such an innovative company as Kallik, which has always placed trust in its customers’ brand and labels at its core. Our new messaging and leadership team are part of a bold and exciting roadmap to meet the packaging and labeling challenges faced by our clients in the context of soaring regulations.

“I am looking forward to bringing my deep industry knowledge and leadership experience, specifically in relation to complex global content management and compliance to bear, to help grow the Kallik brand and business.”

About Kallik

Kallik, the enterprise labeling company, provides regulated industries with a definitive, end-to-end label management platform they can trust.

Medical device, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetics companies use Kallik to deliver trust in their labeling, integrity in their process and confidence in their brand.

Kallik’s cloud-based labeling platform, Veraciti™, enables compliance and delivers supply chain efficiency for all the artwork and content assets that make up product packaging, labeling and instructions for use (IFUs).

Kallik has offices in the UK and USA. More at www.kallik.com and on Twitter @WeAreKallik.

PR Contact

Carina Birt

PR for Kallik

carina@sarumpr.com

Kallik CEO Gurdip Singh and Head of Product Strategy Seth Kane will host a workshop exploring the convergence of physical and electronic labelling and how cloud-based platforms can help

Birmingham, UK - June 25th , 2020 – Enterprise Labeling leader Kallik will this week host a workshop at the Pharma and Device Packaging and Labelling 2020 conference.

Due to COVID-19, Arena International is putting on its first-ever Pharma and Device Packaging and Labelling Virtual Experience, provided entirely in a digital format. Over the course of the event, expert speakers will discuss how they are navigating the new MDR requirement, compliance across different markets when expanding globally, automating artwork processes, packaging sustainability, child resistance and ease of opening, e-labels and more.

Kallik’s session will be led by Chief Executive Officer Gurdip Singh and Head of Product Strategy, Seth Kane. Entitled ‘Converging physical and electronic labelling: How cloud-based platforms can help’ the Kallik Q&A runs at 2:50 BST.

“We are delighted to bring Kallik’s deep expertise in Labelling and Artwork Management to a wider audience at the Pharma Packaging 2020,” says Gurdip. “It is the perfect platform to dive into the most pressing issues facing the industry.”

Gurdip is a deeply-experienced practitioner and leader in life sciences company transformation. Before taking up his CEO role at Kallik, he held senior life sciences industry leadership roles at CSC, then DXC Technology. Very much a people-focused, hands-on leader, Gurdip has an impressive track record of driving organisational transformation in heavily-regulated industries, across leadership, governance and complex programme delivery, in advisory and practitioner roles over the last decade.

Pharma and Device Packaging and Labelling 2020 conference is an exceptional networking opportunity for pharmaceutical and medical device companies to connect with their peers from across Europe and leave with fresh ideas and contacts. This year’s programme is the culmination of over 6 months industry research and will include one full day of educational sessions focusing on the biggest challenges and opportunities in packaging and labelling.

About Kallik

Kallik, the enterprise labelling company, provides regulated industries with a definitive, end-to-end label management platform they can trust.

Medical device, pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetics companies use Kallik to deliver trust in their labelling, integrity in their process and confidence in their brand.

Kallik’s cloud-based labelling platform, Veraciti™, enables compliance and delivers supply chain efficiency for all the artwork and content assets that make up product packaging, labelling and instructions for use (IFUs).

Kallik has offices in the UK and USA. More at www.kallik.com and on Twitter @WeAreKallik.

PR Contact

Carina Birt    

PR for Kallik

carina@sarumpr.com

Kallik’s Veraciti™ user data reveals major benefits from automated artwork and label management adoption in highly regulated industries

• Automation has allowed organisations to reach an average label and artwork generation time of well under 60 seconds.
• Innovation and improvements in Kallik’s Veraciti solution cuts label and artwork project completion times by half for a major life sciences organisation.
• Performance data captured by the Kallik Veraciti platform during 2020 from leading organisations in multiple regulated industries.

16 December 2020 – Kallik, a leading labelling and artwork management solution provider for regulated markets, today revealed 2020 industry data detailing how organisations operating in life sciences, chemical and oil & lubricant industries have significantly reduced label and artwork project completion times. These efficiencies have been achieved by introducing technology enhancements within Veraciti™ and by moving to the Amazon Web Services cloud. These steps were taken to cope with growing levels of statutory regulation and increasingly outdated manual labelling and artwork management processes.

A leading life sciences company that adopted an automated platform can now process a typical monthly workload of over 8,000 artwork generation jobs at an average rate of one job per 37 seconds, in turn cutting average label and artwork project completion time from 52 to just 26 days. A major chemical company saw artwork generation times slashed by 75% over a four-month period to an average of just 12 seconds per artwork generation – and another in the oil & lubricants sector reaching just 3 seconds per task. 

One major life sciences company using Kallik Veraciti benefited from the migration of Veraciti to Amazon Web Services by recording a 50% reduction in project completion times, while at the same time managing to achieve a 27% increase in their artwork and label generation volumes. The data, captured by the Kallik flagship artwork and label management solution, Veraciti, demonstrates that organisations in these industries adopting automated artwork and label generation, in favour of using manual processes or outsourcing design work to third parties, have seen major time and cost reductions.

“Beyond helping companies in highly regulated industries get to grips with disparate labelling and artwork processes, our findings also demonstrate the benefits of automation scale over time and as organisations grow their operations,” says Gurdip Singh, CEO of Kallik. “Many of these organisations have traditionally employed third-party designers to create and amend artwork and labels for a high hourly fee, with these assets numbering in the thousands. The cost efficiencies for bringing these operations in-house and introducing automation are clear.” 

“Automation has a critical role to play for industries such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, cosmetics and food & beverages, where regulations are tight and mistakes can have serious effects on brand reputation or consumer health,” explains Bob Tilling, VP Global Sales at Kallik. “As we have seen with the rush to comply with EU Medical Device Regulations and the potential regulatory shifts of a prospective Brexit deal, the agility and centralised control of a dedicated artwork and label management solution has become a necessity for businesses rather than simply ‘nice to have’.”

Kallik becomes first artwork and labelling management software company to offer customers the security of Amazon Web Services

• Addition of market-leading and highly secure cloud infrastructure further strengthens Kallik’s market-leading VeracitiTM artwork and labelling solution.
• Manufacturers in highly regulated industries will benefit from highest possible levels of cloud security, constant availability and easy onboarding of new labelling and artwork technologies such AI and machine learning. 
• 100% of Kallik customers now fully migrated following fast execution of individual change management programmes.

27 November 2020 – Kallik, a leading labelling and artwork management solution provider for regulated markets, has today announced its VeracitiTM software platform is the first label and artwork management solution to run fully on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Kallik is the only provider in this market with 100% of its customers running on AWS. The switch provides manufacturers in heavily regulated industries such as medtech, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals and food and beverages with the highest levels of security and regulatory compliance, constant availability and the ability to quickly adopt new artwork and labelling technologies. 

AWS is maintained to be fully compliant with regulations such as ISO/IEC standards, GxP requirements, and data privacy such as HIPPA in the U.S. and GDPR across Europe. It provides users with constant uptime and extensive redundancy, especially important given the critical role of artwork management and labelling in the manufacture of highly regulated products. The application layer of AWS allows Veraciti users looking to future-proof their operations to benefit from quick adoption of new technologies such as AI and machine learning – for which use cases in enterprise artwork management and labelling are beginning to emerge.

Kallik's full implementation provides users with a completely smooth migration to AWS. In a period of just a few months, Kallik worked individually with each of its customers on bespoke change management programmes. As a result, 100% of the Kallik customer base has been migrated, including auditing, testing and validation stages prior to go-live. Highly collaborative support during the migration process was provided by cloud experts and Kallik partner, Navisite.

“This migration to AWS marks a huge step forward for Kallik, our customers and artwork management and enterprise labelling as a whole,” says Gurdip Singh, CEO of Kallik. “Kallik has become the first player in e-labelling to make the full switch to AWS. Its tight focus on validation and security, always-on availability and flexible architecture makes AWS a perfect fit for Kallik and our customer base and future prospects, all of whom operate in highly regulated industries.” 

“From a technical perspective, this switch made absolute sense and the support we received from Navisite was exemplary at every stage of the migration journey,” explains Rob Woodall, CTO at Kallik. “AWS is second to none in terms of its industry-leading security and robust application design. Demonstrating they are running on AWS will significantly help Kallik customers during audits. They can operate safe in the knowledge their software is running in accordance with the latest possible industry regulations, while also enjoying the flexibility to quickly and securely onboard emerging technologies going forward.”