Jeremy Plimmer

Jeremy Plimmer has 35 years of experience in the security related print and packaging industry working originally as sales development director for manufacturers of passports, high security print and labels and more recently as a consultant. He is a graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Institute of Minerals, Materials and Mining, chairman of the West Midlands Packaging Society as well as vice chairman of the East Midlands Packaging Society. As an author and co-author of a number of specialist market research studies, some commissioned by single clients and others published on a multi-client basis, he has identified market opportunities, benchmarked products, analysed markets and predicted future growth opportunities in print related authentication & security products for clients in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Israel, Sweden, South Africa and the UK. He also has experience working with the European Commission, the OECD and a number of universities as an expert evaluator of suppliers of new authentication technologies requesting research and development grants. Jeremy also acts as secretary general of the Product & Image Security Foundation, an international forum for manufacturers, suppliers and users of security labels, tags, tickets, materials, systems and document and product/image security technologies. The Foundation acts as an introductory source for authentication suppliers and advises its members in the security print and packaging industries in the areas of brand protection, paper security, print security, counterfeit deterrence and intelligent packaging. It achieves these aims through publishing a  bi-monthly newsletter and through regular speaking engagements at conferences and seminars.