CHARLOTTE, N.C. (News release) -- Packaging services provider Truvant is pleased to announce that it has received the Procter & Gamble External Business Partner Excellence Award in recognition of Truvants performance and long-standing relationship with the consumer goods giant.

The External Business Partner Excellence Award was created by P&G to honor the contributions of those suppliers that have "gone above and beyond in delivering value" to the business.

Truvant is the largest pure-play packaging services provider in the world, delivering manufacturing, packaging, and display solutions to the world's leading brands. The company delivers high-quality, flexible, efficient, and sustainable packaging solutions that help brands get their products to the consumer in the most efficient way possible.

Truvants solutions are designed to reduce costs, improve speed to market, create agility and manage complexity while reducing the impact on the environment. Procter & Gamble is one of the many long-standing clients that have benefited from Truvants unique approach to mutual value creation.

"We are delighted to recognize a selected group of P&G's external business partners with the External Business Partner Excellence Award," says Ana Elena, Marziano, Chief Purchasing Officer for Procter & Gamble. "These valued partners provide essential products and services which enable us to delight and serve consumers around the world every day. The External Business Partner Excellence award recognizes those that have gone above and beyond providing outstanding support to P&G by showing performance excellence in five key areas of Commercial, Operational, Relationship, and Citizenship."

John Richards, COO of Truvant Europe, said . "We are very pleased and honored to receive this prestigious award and recognition from Procter & Gamble, with whom we have worked for many years. It is a reflection of the hard work, imagination, and partnership of our people in both the P&G and Truvant organizations that creates real breakthrough opportunities. We will continue to strive to achieve these levels in the future."

Truvant is the largest pure-play packaging services provider in the world, delivering manufacturing, packaging, and display solutions to large, global brands. Truvant was created to help brands manage the complexity associated with getting their products to market. Truvant operates 16 best-in-class facilities located across North America and Europe that deliver innovation, flexibility, quality, service, and value for its customers.