TLMI Announces Eugene Singer Award Winners

NAPERVILLE, Ill.—The Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) recently announced the winners of the prestigious 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 2007 TLMI Eugene Singer Awards were given to the following North American narrow web converting companies:

• Fountain Valley, CA-based Coast Label Company won for the small company category. This is Coast Label’s first TLMI Eugene Singer Award.
• Lenexa, KS-based SpectraGraphics, Inc. won for the mid-range category. This is SpectraGraphics’ first TLMI Eugene Singer Award.
• Longwood, FL-based Consolidated Label won for the medium company category. This is Consolidated Label’s sixth consecutive TLMI Eugene Singer Award and the company’s fourth time winning in the medium company category.
• DePere, WI-based Belmark, Inc. won for the large company category. This is Belmark’s tenth TLMI 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 continues to be a benchmarking vehicle that does just that. Participation in the Ratio Study was greater this past year than ever and remains to be one of the greatest management and strategic planning tools in our industry.”