CCL Industries Announces Start-Up Wine Label Operation in California

TORONTO—May 8, 2012—CCL Industries, a world leader in specialty packaging solutions for the consumer products and healthcare industries, announced today that it will invest in a new wine label plant in California.

CCL Label will invest $8 million to create a state-of-the-art plant in Sonoma with the latest label converting technologies dedicated to the wine industry. In 2011, wine production exceeded 300 million cases in the United States and has grown consistently over the last two decades. Wine continues to be a growth sector in the label industry as producers switch to pressure sensitive technology and develop increasingly complex designs to represent the brand signatures of leading wineries. CCL Label has appointed Stephan Finke as vice president and general manager for the new operation. Finke has a unique 25-year track record in the wine label industry, much of it as a principal of Cameo Crafts, a leading supplier to the larger wineries in both North America and Latin America. He will also join the board of CCL's recently announced joint venture in Chile.