TLMI Awards Printing Excellence

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) recently announced the winners of the Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence. One of TLMI’s highest honors, this award recognizes excellence in business management, measured and defined by an established set of growth and profitability ratios through the TLMI Management Ratio Study.

The Singer Award is given annually to four label-converting companies; each company within a certain sales range category. The 2008 TLMI Eugene Singer Awards were given to the following North American narrow web converting companies:

• Coast Label Company won in its category for the second time. The small company category is defined by annual sales of less than $6 million.
• Kopco Graphics, Inc. won for the mid-range company category, defined by sales of $6 to $14 million. This is Kopco’s first TLMI Eugene Singer Award.
• GSI won for the medium company category, defined by sales of $15 to $35 million. This is GSI’s fifth TLMI Eugene Singer Award.
• Consolidated Label won for the large company category defined by sales greater than $35 million. This is Consolidated Label’s seventh Eugene Singer Award.

TLMI President, Frank Sablone, commented, “TLMI would like to congratulate this year’s Eugene Singer Award Winners. As an industry association our central mission is to constantly deliver value back to our members; and the TLMI Management Ratio Study has proven to be a benchmarking vehicle that does just that. The percentage participation rate in the Ratio Study was higher this past year than it has ever been, and it’s an honor to be able to continue to provide this service to our converter members.”

TLMI also announced eight of the association’s label-converter members have won first-place and/or honorable mention awards in the World Label Association Awards Competition. The awards were formally presented at the recent TLMI Converter Meeting in Naples, Florida.

In its nineteenth year, the winners of the World Label Association Awards Competition are chosen from a group comprised of first-place winners from association label competitions around the globe including TLMI, the Japanese Label Foundation (JFLP), FINAT, and the Australian Label Association (LATMA). Label samples from companies are judged against each other in a variety of categories to determine the ‘World’s Best Labels.’

TLMI converter member award winners and label product names include:
• Label Technology—‘Columbus Salami Specialty Series’ label
• McDowell Label & Screen Printing—‘Flameout Dietary Supplement’ label
• G-3 Enterprises—‘Groth Oakville Cabernet Reserve’ label
• Collotype Labels—‘Wooden Valley’ label
• York Label—‘Caress Exotic Oil Infusions’ label
• National Label Company—‘Dove Therapy Frizz Control’ label
• A&M Label—‘Huggies Bath & Body Wash’ coupon
• Label World—‘Parkside Smoked Cheddar Sesame Crisps’ label

TLMI converter member honorable mention companies include:
• Taylor Made Labels—‘Lumos Wine Co. 2007 Gewurztrammer’ label
• Collotype Labels‚—‘Blackstone Sonoma Reserve’ label