Business Management - Operations

Robert C. Tiede has been named president and CEO of Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies. Tiede will be replacing Jack Sanders, who is retiring after having served as president and CEO since 2013.

Brands and their associated colors are often so closely connected that consumers can quickly recognize a brand based solely off color - think Coca-Cola and red. In packaging, color differentiation is often measured in terms of "Delta E," with the goal to keep that number as low as possible. But what exactly is Delta E, and how can printers better understand this essential measurement?

The Flexible Packaging Association announced the election of its 2018 board of directors. The 2018 board is comprised of industry leaders from 34 flexible packaging companies.

With plenty of demand and opportunity to grow, packaging is an enticing market for commercial printers. But package printers have good reason to feel confident in an increasingly competitive field.

All American Label recently installed a combination offset and flexo press, the Nilpeter MO-4. Self-described as a one-stop-shop for customers, CEO Brad C. Brown says the MO-4 is ideal for the flexibility his company needs.

TLMI announced the winners of the Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence during its Converter Meeting in San Diego. The Singer Award recognizes excellence in business management measured and defined by an established set of ratios through participation in the TLMI Management Ratio Study.

Jet Label & Packaging, one of Western Canada's largest label printers, has acquired duplicates of key pieces of equipment in its primary manufacturing facility in Edmonton, Alberta. This equipment includes digital presses, flexographic presses and various converting equipment.

S-One Holdings Corporation has announced a new division: S-One Labels & Packaging. The division's focus is on providing essential products, unparalleled service, technical know-how and integrated solutions to digital printers in the labels and flexible packaging market.

Micheal Lane has been appointed to the position of CEO of Meyers, a Minneapolis-based brand marketing and commercial printing company. Lane is the first non-family CEO in the company's nearly 70-year history.

Ray Chambers, a well-known voice in the in-plant printing industry, explains why organizations in which top management makes unstructured, random visits to the shop floor and listens to what staff has to say, tend to be more efficient and enjoy greater morale. Though Chambers is from the in-plant segment of the printing industry, his advice can certainly be adapted for package printers and converters.