Business Management - Marketing/Sales

The Independent Carton Group (ICG), an association of independently owned and operated folding carton manufacturers, has announced that Carton Craft Supply is the recipient of its Supplier of the Year Award for 2018.

Amgraph Packaging, a Baltic, Conn.-based flexible packaging printer and converter, has been named the 2018 Supplier of the Year from Mississauga, Ontario-based Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee. Amgraph is the first American supplier and first tea packaging supplier to win the award.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, S-One Holdings Corp. has published its 2019 Culture Book, highlighting the teams that make up S-One and its subsidiary companies, as well as its customers, partners and communities. To make the book stand out, the cover features multiple digitally applied embellishments.

Promotional calendars are hardly a new tool for printers to use when wooing customers and prospects. But Diamond Packaging's 2019 calendar extends beyond serving as a promotional piece, demonstrating the artwork-like qualities the company can produce, along with the latest smart packaging technologies. Here's how the 2019 calendar came together.

Industrial Inkjet Ltd. has added Courtney Marshall and Stuart Hill as account managers in Golden, Colo. Marshall joins IIJ having most recently accumulated experience as a research analyst with Navigant Consulting while Hill will bring 28 years of experience to the role.

MPS has promoted Michael Weyermann to the role of VP of sales and marketing. Weyermann has been with the company since 2015 and is expected to help the company grow in the North American market.

Gerard Geurts, formerly of HP Indigo, brings four decades of experience to S-One Labels & Packaging, where he will implement new processes to improve availability and compatibility of pre- and post-printing solutions.

Sara Dunn has joined NAPCO Media, packagePRINTING's parent company, as strategy and business development manager of the Packaging and Printing brands. She most recently served as managing director of the Packaging School.

Chris Batchelder has joined the flexographic team and works on the sales efforts in North America, increasing awareness of the division’s flexo press models, and serving and supporting the division’s current existing customers.

OMET and Durst have formed a strategic partnership in North America that allows OMET exclusive access for sales of the Durst Tau product line. Full implementation of the partnership is expected to be achieved by Labelexpo Americas, at which the Durst Tau 330 RSC and OMET XJet digital-flexo hybrid press will be featured.