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Delegates and their partners – some dressed appropriately in Lederhosen and Dirndl skirts – repaired to the famous Löwenbräukeller for music, dinner, and dancing.
explained that he learned ‘how hard it is to wait but also how hard it is to let go!’
The Schreiner Group has been one of the major label industry success stories-- particularly in pharmaceuticals -- in terms of both vision and value. Between 1970 and 2012, sales grew from € 300,000 to € 130 million; 300 sqm of operating space grew to 60,000 sqm; and the workforces grew from 16 to 800 employees. ‘This development’, said Mr Schreiner, ‘was only possible with the full backing of my wife, and also, for the past 12 years, of my son. Through our company’s values of innovation, quality, performance and enthusiasm we developed a successful organism.’
Mr Schreiner’s paper went on to detail how father and son worked together and individually to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve successful generation change at the right time for both parties – one letting go, one taking hold. ‘I wanted my biggest gift to the company to be one successor, one entrepreneur – to lead and be liable’, said Mr Schreiner.
PRESS MANUFACTURERS’ PANEL DISCUSSION – THE FUTURE?
The self-adhesive label industry’s guru,
Mike Fairley, founder of Labels & Labeling
magazine, the Labelexpo shows, and
Labels & Labeling Consultancy, took to
the stage to interview a panel of speakers
from leading press manufacturer
companies. His starting point was to
question the meaning of all the recent, and
promised, change in the label industry, for
the hardware manufacturers. Panelists from major conventional printing press manufacturers (Jakob Landberg, Nilpeter; Ferdi Rüesch, Gallus; Mike Russell, Mark Andy; Eric Hoendervangers, MPS; and Marco Calcagni, Omet), joined digital label press manufacturers Hans Gerinckx of Xeikon, Christian Menegon of HP Indigo and Jennifer Renner of EFI.
Topics discussed ranged from the increasing use of many colours/finishes on a label – often nine or more – coupled with
Dinner at the Löwenbräukeller
VskE President Robert Maegerlein and FINAT President Kurt Walker get the beer engine going
SUCCESSFUL SUCCESSION PLANNING: SCHREINER GROUP
Next day’s programme opened with a presentation that epitomises a central aspect of the self-adhesive label converting industry: the need for succession planning, and
generation change, in small and medium- sized family companies. A true success story here is that of Helmut Schreiner, now Senior Shareholder and Advisory Board Member of the Schreiner Group and Honorary Chairman of VskE since 2010. Mr Schreiner talked about how – as successor to his parents in their small seal stamp and label company – he now has,
with his son Roland, been able to secure his company’s future through goal-oriented generation change.
His own early experiences were key to the process. He
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