TLMI Commissions 2013 North American Label Study

GLOUCESTER, MA—April 11, 2012—The Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) has recently commissioned industry research firm LPC Inc. to research and publish the association’s prestigious North American Label Study (NALS) to be published in early January 2013.

This extensive study, published by the association every four to five years, is a comprehensive resource for TLMI converter and supplier members, and for the greater narrow web labeling and packaging industry. The NALS 2013 will closely examine those drivers shaping the North American, Central and South American narrow web marketplace and will provide benchmark-level researched market data and trend information to assist companies in making business decisions critical to their growth and profitability.

Frank Sablone, TLMI president, comments, “The North American Label Study is one of the most important benefits our members receive. The study provides peer-level data that converters and suppliers can use for their own benchmarking purposes in addition to trend predictions, growth forecasts, end-use sector analysis and case studies. This is the only research endeavor of its kind in the narrow web marketplace, and since a portion of companies surveyed include TLMI members, quantitative and qualitative participation rates for the NALS are the highest in the industry.”

Present and future demand for narrow web applications will be researched for all narrow web technologies including pressure sensitive, wet glue, sleeves of all types, and in-mold. Current and emerging opportunities for brand owners and converters in the digital printing space will be reported on, including an examination of the current demand for digitally printed prime labels, and growth forecasts to 2017. Major end-use markets will be examined in-depth and the study will report on drivers and change agents in each sector through quantitative analysis and interviews with packaging buyers/sourcing personnel, packaging engineers, brand managers, CPG (consumer packaged goods) marketing and business development personnel, and narrow web printers and converters.

LPC Inc. provides market research and consulting services to companies in the printing and packaging industries, working with clients at every level of the supply chain: Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods companies, printers and converters, and equipment and consumables goods suppliers. Publication of the 2013 TLMI North American Label Study will be in January 2013 and will be available to all TLMI members at a special price.