TLMI holds annual meeting

The TLMI Annual Meeting held in Phoenix Arizona on October 17-19 hosted over 350 label industry supplier and converter members. Chaired by Karen Moreland of global die manufacturer RotoMetrics, attendees listened to an award-winning Harvard economics professor discuss business in a challenging economy and heard a Global 1000 Company advisor discuss innovation and the importance of leading progressive change in business.

The meeting offered a panel session titled Future Product Technology and Design: Opportunities for Converting Solutions, which included a packaging marketer, a designer and an end user. The key takeaways from the panelists was for converters to bring innovation to its customers; understand the power of interactive packaging and social media for a brand; add-value to its products while maintaining cost increases if possible; support its customers to differentiate their brands.

The 2011 TLMI Annual Awards were announced on the final evening of the gathering. The winners are listed below.

• Converter of the Year – Ken Kidd, WS Packaging
• Supplier of the Year – Pat Hague, Water Ink Technologies

Environmental Leadership Awards:

• Innovative Technology – Avery Dennison
• Process Improvement – Label World

Also at the awards night, Art Yerecic, TLMI chairman, and Roger Pellow of Tarsus Group announced thatTLMI has entered into a long term partnership with Tarsus Group, which will see the North American label association continue to co-sponsor the Labelexpo Americas exhibition from 2014 to 2022.

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