Mike Fairley honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Mike Fairley is the winner of the 2009 R Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement was made by Global Label Awards judging panel chairman Helmut Schreiner of Schreiner Etiketten at the FINAT annual congress at Anatalya, Turkey.

'Mike Fairley is the guru for our industry, as well for our customers and their suppliers,' said Schreiner. 'He built a bridge into the future for new markets and new possibilities. I would like to say thank you to him for all he has done for our industry, and the Lifetime Achievement Award is the right answer.'

Schreiner also praised the other nominees for the award: Jeffery Arippol, Novelprint; Noel Mitchell, UPM Raflatac; and Guido van der Schueren, EskoArtwork. 'These were four persons we were really impressed with. The problem is, there is only one award.' Along with chairman Helmut Schreiner, the Global Label Awards judging panel consisted of Andrea Vimercati, Pilot Italia, representing FINAT; John Hickey, Smythe Companies, representing the TLMI; Tony White, representing Etiketten/Narrowebtech magazines and Andy Thomas, representing Labels & Labeling.

The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Mike Fairley at a gala evening on the first night of Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, Wednesday September 23.

As well as the Lifetime Achievement Award, the judges selected a shortlist of potential winners in three other categories: Continuous Innovation, New Innovation and European Label Converter of the Year. The winners of these categories will be announced on the gala night.

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