New TLMI president

Scott Pillsbury, president of the Rose City Label Company, based in Portland, OR, was elected 2004-2006 TLMI president at the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute’s annual business meeting. More than 400 label and narrow-web converting professionals were registered for the three-day event at the La Quinta Resort and Club in Palm Springs, CA. J. Andrew Beck, president of API Graphics, Inc. of High Point, NC, was voted president-elect and John Bankson, president of Label Technology, Inc. in Merced, CA, becomes immediate past president.

TLMI membership reached the 300 mark at the meeting, as the trade association has inducted 17 new converter members, 17 new supplier members and three new international members since the beginning of the year. There are now a total of 150 converter members in 65 different divisions; 136 suppliers in 50 divisions; and 14 international members in five divisions.

The 2005 TLMI budget was unanimously approved and revenues of $1,226,205 are projected against expenses of $1,218,197. The TLMI Scholarship Committee awarded six $5,000 scholarships to students this year. More than $43,000 was raised by the scholarship committee in 2004, bringing the fund's total reserves to over $758,000.