Here’s a post from Eric Scott on Quora which caught my eye. And my brain. I think, as he acknowledges, it probably originated elsewhere, and may have had many variations along the way to my desk. None of that really matters too much, because although it’s ostensibly about pottery, it [...]
Hold on tight
LPC does a lot of research and consulting work in the package printing area for private clients, and we also produce regular industry indices for folks like TLMI (in the US) and FINAT (in Europe). However -and while we’ve been doing them for more than ten years- the biggest growth area of our [...]
What Do Brand Owners Really Want?
This is a question LPC asks constantly. Every year, in the work we do for TLMI (Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute), FINAT (The European Trade Association for Self-Adhesive Labeling and Adjacent Industries) and customer surveys for our private clients, we probe the issue of what brand owners and packaging buyers [...]
A simple yes or no question:
The leading European labelling association FINAT has asked us to report on trends and developments in the industry and we want to get a feel for what customers think and feel. So, does your company buy labels printed in Europe? No? Thanks for your time, this blog isn’t for you. [...]
Just blew in from the Windy City…
…or -less colloquially- just got back to a 100 degree Austin, Texas from three packed days with the throngs at Labelexpo in Chicago. We did -of course- walk the packed halls, watched machines running, heard the barkers and the bands (I still think a Guns ‘n’ Roses tribute act at two [...]
On our RADAR
Karl Fust, one of the true gentlemen of FINAT, talks here a little about their new RADAR which surveys converters and brand owners in the European label market and also reports on materials, press sales, and comparative data with the American industry. LPC has just completed researching this first edition [...]
The Meat in Team
Stephen Covey once reported on a poll of 23,000 employees from across a range of different companies and industries: -37% said they had a clear understanding of what their organization was trying to achieve and why -One in five was enthusiastic about their team’s and their organization’s goals -One in [...]
Pictures from a working network
I never really ‘got’ networking until I went to a TLMI meeting. I understood the theory, but I always thought it was just shorthand for business guys playing golf. I don’t play golf. My partner at LPC, Jennifer Dochstader, attended the recent 2014 Converter Meeting held in Newport Beach, California and reports that [...]
FINAT RADAR
We are proud to announce that FINAT, the European label association, has awarded LPC the contract to research and publish their twice-yearly FINAT RADAR report on the European label market. We have been producing TLMI’s Index and Trend Report in North America for a number of years and this new development [...]
Thought for every day
This Jerry Rice quote always reminds me of another very successful athlete, Daley Thompson, who won the Olympic gold medal at Decathlon. A gregarious and apparently fun-loving character, he was asked why he trained so hard, even on Christmas Day. His answer was that he was pretty sure all of [...]