Smyth Companies names new president

Smyth Companies, a label printing company with headquarters in Minnesota, has promoted Jim Lundquist to president, effective September 8, 2008.

Lundquist has been with Smyth since 2005, and successfully steered Smyth through the consolidation of the company’s sheet-fed printing operations into two production facilities. Most recently, Lundquist was instrumental in the sale of Smyth’s Snap! package division to Tapemark, as well as formulating plans for future growth.

‘Jim Lundquist is an important reason Smyth has remained one of the largest and most respected label printers in the business,’ said John Hickey, CEO of Smyth. ‘His stewardship of the company during a very tumultuous time in the industry has put us on a very solid footing financially, and has created an organization better able to serve our customers.’

With the promotion of Lundquist, the Smyth executive management team consists of John Hickey, CEO; Jim Lundquist, president; Bill Hickey, owner director; Dan Hickey, owner director; Dave Baumgardner, CFO; John Olivanti, EVP sales and marketing; Bill Weernink, EVP operations; and Steve Yokanovich, VP IT.