1998 TLMI Converters of the Year

Family ties that first tested, and now bind Custom Tape & Label have created a new generation of tag and label talent and drive.

by Susan Friedman

James O. Buckley founded Custom Tape & Label Co. with a dream familiar to many: to provide a better life for his family. He didn't know then that business and family would eventually become one entity—or that the unexpected unification of home- and work-life would fuel a collision of wills. But the dust has long settled from past differences, and Buckley's venture has become a tradition that won't soon fall from the family tree or the tag and label industry.