Dale Bunnell wins Lifetime Achievement Award

The first R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded to Dale Bunnell, who spent 20 years as vice president sales & marketing at Mark Andy and a further five years as VP, business development within the company.

Bunnell was chosen from a long list of nominees from the converting and supplier industry by a panel of top industry judges chaired by Mike Fairley from the Tarsus Group and including Andy Thomas - Editor, Labels & Labeling, Jack Kenny - Editor, Label & Narrow Web, Wolfgang Klos-Geiger - Editor, NarroWebTech, John Bankson - President, TLMI, and Fritz Beglinger - President FINAT.

Nominations for the global label industry awards were open to the whole labels industry and were posted on-line. Voting closed at the end of June and the Judging Panel met in Chicago on July 15 to review an extensive list of nominations for each of three award categories.

In addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award, three companies were nominated for the Label Industry Award for Continuous Innovation - Avery Dennison, Esko Graphics and Nilpeter. Three more companies were nominated for the New Innovation category-AVT, GiDue and HP Indigo. The winners of these categories will be announced
at the Gala Awards dinner and ceremony, taking place at the Donald E Stevens Convention Center, Rosemont, Chicago on September 13, the first evening of Labelexpo Americas 2004.

Mike Fairley, Label Industry Global Awards Judging Panel chairman, commented:
‘Use of the Internet to nominate for the Awards produced a varied and comprehensive list of potentially worthy suppliers and converters on a global basis, giving the judges a difficult task to reduce the list to a final shortlist of nominations and winners.

‘For The R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award, the enthusiastic consensus of the panel was that Dale Bunnell was central to the most significant events in the narrow web label industry for the last 25 years and has been a leader, an innovator, and an ambassador for the industry globally, supported by his wife Shirlene.’