FINAT to encourage young managers

FINAT is to create a Young Managers club geared to providing exchange working visits between label printing companies for the next generation of industry leaders.

‘I believe this will have an important role to play in developing the self-adhesives industry in the years to come,’ says Jan Frederik Vink, the self-adhesive label association’s new president.

'‘Apart from a dozen, or so major label printing companies, most of the label printers are small to medium sized firms, largely family-run, with up-and-coming people in junior management positions but with no opportunity to gain wider business experience.’ The club will run from November.

'‘I hope that by encouraging their participation in the club, through forums, conferences and exchange working visits to other FINAT member companies, they will gain that experience and become stronger managers within their own companies and, importantly, provide the FINAT leaders in the years to come,’ said Vink.