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Hawkins, Inc. (Nasdaq: HWKN), announced today that it has again been certified as a Great Place to Work.

Great Place to Work is an independent research and consulting firm, and its certification process considers more than 60 elements of overall job experience.

“We are proud to receive this recognition for the third year in a row and are very thankful for our dedicated employees across the country,” said Patrick Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer and President. “We have always made it a priority to take care of our employees, who in turn take care of our customers. 87% of our employees said our customers would rate the service we deliver as “excellent,” and 85% said that when you join the company, you are made to feel welcome. Achieving this recognition means a lot to us at Hawkins.”

Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue and increased innovation. This certification is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace.

According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company’s profits and have a fair chance at promotion.

Press Release: HAWKINS, INC. AGAIN RECOGNIZED AS A CERTIFIED GREAT PLACE TO WORK

EXCiPACT is pleased to announce that the Hawkins Inc. in Roseville, Minnesota, USA has recently been awarded an EXCiPACT GMP and GDP Certificate from SGS, one of EXCIPACT’s internationally recognized Certification Bodies.

The Certificate demonstrates that this site manufactures, stores, and distributes organic and inorganic salts, acids, bases, and aqueous solutions for use as pharmaceutical excipients, according to the 2021 EXCiPACT Certification Standard for Pharmaceutical Excipient Suppliers.

Both SGS and their auditors had to undergo a rigorous assessment process to be EXCiPACT Registered. Both have satisfied the additional EXCiPACT competency requirements set out in the EXCiPACT annex to the ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015 standard. These include completion of the EXCiPACT Auditor Training Course, post course written examinations and independently witnessed audits to verify their competency to the required standard. SGS also had to have their auditors’ reports verified by their independent certification board prior to issuing the certificates.

For full details of sites currently EXCiPACT certified in 20+ countries (including: Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, UK, USA, …), see: https://www.excipact.org/certificate-holders.html

EU and US pharmaceutical regulations require drug manufacturers to conduct either their own or third party physical risk assessment audits of all of their starting material suppliers to demonstrate GMP and/or GDP compliance thus increasing the audit burden. However, using GMP and GDP standards designed specifically for pharmaceutical excipients, EXCiPACT’s voluntary, independent, high quality Certification Scheme helps pharmaceutical excipient users and their suppliers to demonstrate their commitment to GMP/GDP, reducing their audit burden and costs, to assure product quality.

EXCiPACT GMP Certification Press Release: HAWKINS INC. Receives Excipact GMP Certification As Pharmaceutical Excipient Supplier from SGS 1.23.2023

 

ROSEVILLE, Minn., Oct. 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hawkins, Inc. (Nasdaq: HWKN), a leading specialty chemical and ingredients company, today announced that is has extended the footprint of its Water Treatment Group into Delaware. With this new location, Hawkins now has 39 Water Treatment facilities in 23 states.

“We have aggressively grown the footprint of our water treatment group over the last three years with multiple acquisitions and new greenfield locations,” said Patrick H. Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer and President. “The organic and expansion growth contributed to topline water treatment group revenue growth of 34% in fiscal 2022 and a 15% compounded annual growth rate over the last three years. We expect to continue to expand this business profitably in future years through organic growth as well as acquisitions.”

HAWKINS, INC. CONTINUES TO EXPAND WATER TREATMENT FOOTPRINT, ADDS NEW LOCATION IN DELMAR, DELAWARE

ROSEVILLE, Minn., Sept. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — For the second year in a row, Hawkins, Inc. (Nasdaq: HWKN), a leading specialty chemical and ingredients company, has been named by Great Place to Work as one of the Fortune Best Workplaces in Manufacturing and Production in 2022.

HAWKINS, INC. NAMED ONE OF THE FORTUNE BEST WORKPLACES IN MANUFACTURING & PRODUCTION IN 2022

Hawkins, Inc. (Nasdaq: HWKN), announced today it has completed its purchase of NAPCO Chemical Company, Inc. and its affiliates (“NAPCO Chemical”).  NAPCO Chemical manufactures and distributes water treatment chemicals from three locations in Texas. Hawkins now has 37 water treatment sites serving 26 states.

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