May 1998 Issue

 

1998 C. Taylor Kew Leadership Award

The Power of Packaging As chairman of the board of the National Paperbox Association, Ted Frain, Jr. preached the "power of packaging and the packaging association." By Dawn Whalen GOOD RELATIONSHIPS with his family, his customers and even his competitors have led Ted Frain, Jr., founder and former president of Unipak, and this year's recipient of the National Paperbox Association's (NPA) C. Taylor Kew Leadership Award, to be well respected in the paperbox industry. "My father is very optimistic, very sales oriented, very customer service and customer oriented," says his son and vice president of Unipak, Stephen Frain. "The relationship he had with customers