NEW DELHI

The largest event for the label, product decoration and converting industry in India took place on 8 to 11 December at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Labelexpo India was hailed a great success with 6,054 visitors in attendance, a figure that was up by 27 percent from the show in 2008.

The show achieved its primary role - to gather the best examples of machinery and materials from a wide variety of international and Indian manufacturers and enable visitors to compare technology and make their decisions on future investments.

For the past several years I have been teaching professional English for the printing industry at the University of Wuhan, China. I had delivered lectures there while I was president of the NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies. After retirement, I was asked if I would teach the subject for a 3-month period to which I readily agreed. I was well prepared because, for 30 years, I had served as the CEO of the association which had offices in -Tokyo, Shanghai, New Delhi, Sao Paulo, and Moscow, and I frequently made presentations about the state of the U.S. printing

CINCINNATI, Ohio—Ampac Packaging has acquired privately-held, Floeter Flexible Packaging Group (Eberdingen, Germany) for an undisclosed amount. Floeter specializes in stand-up pouch converting and is known for its best-in-class retort pouch-making capability. Founded in 1985, Floeter is a supplier to many premier, multinational global food and pet food brands. The acquisition includes two manufacturing locations in Germany (Eberdingen, near Stuttgart, and Leipzig), one in India (New Delhi), and one in the United States (Chicago). Going forward, Floeter and its employees will become part of the Ampac Flexibles division of Ampac Holdings LLC. “We could not be more excited about Ampac and Floeter joining together. This

NEW DEHLI, India—Label Summit India 2007, which took place this month in New Delhi was a great success with 492 delegates attending the high-level conference to learn about the key factors stimulating growth in the Indian label industry both in the short and the long term. With the current retail market in India worth $300 billion and the demand for consumer products and luxury goods increasing by 15 percent every year, the Summit provided the ideal gathering for label industry professionals from India and beyond to gain in-depth insights into these developments. A panel of senior representatives from brand owner organizations such as GlaxoSmithKline,