FINAT's New President Targets Growth And Benefits

David Harrisson, multinational sales director of the Skanem self-adhesive labels group, has been elected president of FINAT, the industry's international trade association.

David Harrisson, multinational sales director of the Skanem self-adhesive labels group, has been elected president of FINAT, the industry's international trade association.

Together with the FINAT board, he has identified three key strategic objectives to be achieved during his presidency.

The first is to increase the size of the 400-member FINAT organisation by at least 25 new member companies each year.

The second is to enhance the range of benefits provided to its members, whilst the third is to promote and enhance the sales of self-adhesive labels.

Harrisson unveiled the strategy at the FINAT Congress in Baveno (Italy) when he told members: "We are committed to promote FINAT and to grow its membership, improve membership benefits, help train end-users to use our products more efficiently and to increase awareness about the relative strengths of our products in comparison with other forms of product decoration." At FINAT's general assembly, three new members were elected to the association's board.

They are Frederic Leyval, the general manager of of JPL Etiquette (France), Jaume Puigbo, the chief executive officer of Sinel Systems (Spain), and Keld Thorsen, the managing director of labels at Stralfors (Sweden).

At the general assembly, Helmut Schreiner of Schreiner Group (Germany) and Iban Cid of Germark (Spain) stepped down from the board.

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