2008 TLMI Annual Meeting :
October 19 – 22, 2008
9th Annual TLMI Scholarship Golf Challenge :
July 21, 2008
2008 TLMI Annual Meeting :
October 19 – 22, 2008
9th Annual TLMI Scholarship Golf Challenge :
July 21, 2008
The winners of the prestigious Eugene Singer Award for Management Excellence were honored at the recent converter meeting in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. 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. Award recipients were asked to share some comments for the TLMI Illuminator, and to express what this honor means to them personally, and to their companies.
Fountain Valley, CA-based Coast Label Company won in their category for the first time, and company CEO, Craig Moreland, had the following to say upon being notified that Coast Label was the small company category award recipient. “When we bought the company, my wife was a stay-at-home mom, we had a 3-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son, and my first day in the label industry was as the owner of the Coast Label Company. We were leveraged to the hilt, and as the saying goes, failure was not an option. I was the President, the Customer Service Department, the Accounting Department and I repaired machines I knew nothing about. It was challenging, it was exhilarating, and it was a little scary. But, I liked the business from the start - and I still do.
Early on I became aware of TLMI and of this award. I’d read about the winners in the trade magazines each year, and I’d wonder how I could grow my little company to be as successful as theirs were. Looking back on those times I know I felt like the kid who played Little League baseball while dreaming of what it would be like to someday play in the Majors, and maybe, if he worked really hard and got a little lucky, play on the All Star team. And here I am, representing my family that believed in me, as well as all the great people I work with back home who have done their best over many years to help Coast Label Company finally make the “All Star Team”.”
The year’s winner in the Mid-Range category was Lenexa, Kansas-based Spectragraphics, Inc., also a first time winner. Ted Williams, Spectragraphics’ President, had the following to say about being awarded with one of TLMI’s highest honors. “It is a real honor receiving The Eugene Singer Award. I wish I could take the credit, but winning this award is definitely not an individual achievement. One person cannot possibly do it. The real “Thanks” for this award goes to everyone at the company who made it happen. Pressmen, production people, customer service, sales, prepress, accounting – the whole team. The right people at the right place at the right time. We have a truly remarkable group of people all working towards the success of Spectragraphics. My appreciation goes out to all of them.”
This was Longwood, Florida-based Consolidated Label’s sixth consecutive time receiving the Singer Award, the company’s fourth time winning in the medium company category. Joel Carmany, company CEO, commented, “We are thrilled to win the Singer Award again this year. Basically this award is a tribute to the customers who continue to support us and our employees who always go the extra mile to get the job done right. We have continued to make the changes to the business that set us apart and make it fun to come to work.”
The final Singer Award for the large company category was delivered to DePere, WI-based Belmark, Inc. This is Belmark’s tenth Eugene Singer Award in their category. Company CEO Bruce Bell had the following to say about receiving the honor. “Our company has been blessed with good people and great customers. This 2007 TLMI Singer Award for Belmark in the large company category is an honor and a direct result of our employees and their excellent efforts. Furthermore, as a long time TLMI member, it is special to grow along with this organization and the converter/supplier friends I have made along the way. I feel the TLMI Board is working hard to provide member benefits while doing a good job or representing all of the membership within our industry. Thanks so much!”
Past Winners