Lux Global Label Announces New Leadership

Lux Global Label Co., LaFayette Hill, Pa., USA, this week announced a series of leadership additions, including naming Todd Kennedy CEO and a member of the board of directors. The company also announced that two labeling and printing industry veterans, Robert (Bob) Coleman and John Wurzburger, have been named to the company's board of directors. 

Lux Global Label is the newly formed holding company that purchased certain assets from National Label, a 103-year-old global leader in the labeling industry. The establishment of Lux Global Label was announced by Resilience Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm, on April 28, 2017.

Prior to being named CEO of Lux Global Label, Kennedy served as COO of The Kennedy Group, a producer of labeling solutions. The company provides solutions to label, package, brand, promote, identify, and track a wide array of products throughout supply chains around the globe. The Kennedy Group serves a variety of industries including consumer products, food, beverage, material handling, manufacturing, automotive, and household chemicals, as well as media and promotions companies. The Kennedy Group also is a co-investor in Lux Global Label with Resilience Capital Partners.

 

"There is tremendous opportunity for Lux Global Label, a recognized innovator in the labeling and printing LBC Credit Partners. industry with an unmatched, 103-year history of serving customers around the globe," said Kennedy.

With the addition of Bob Coleman and John Wurzburger, both former Avery Dennison executives, Lux Global Label now has a six-member board of directors.

"These leadership additions demonstrate that we are already ahead of plan and, within 60 days, have completed operational improvement initiatives that will enable Lux Global Label to build upon a century of excellence in the labeling industry," said Steven H. Rosen, co-CEO, Resilience Capital Partners, and a member of Lux Global Label's Board.

Coleman has a distinguished career in the labeling and printing industry spanning three decades, including two-and-a-half decades with Avery Dennison. At Avery Dennison, he served as VP/GM of Avery Dennison Graphics North America. After leaving Avery Dennison in 2002, he went on to serve as president, Decorative Products, OMNOVA Solutions Inc., where he led a $320 million business line. Coleman currently consults and serves as an executive coach for Laminating Services Inc.

Wurzburger formerly served as VP/GM of Avery Dennison Fasson Roll North America and as VP/GM, Latin America, for Avery Dennison. He currently serves as president and CEO of The Waddington Group, a global leader in packaging serving the foodservice, bakery, deli, produce, and confectionary markets that is a division of Newell Brands. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he was an All-American and All-Ivy lacrosse player, and of Johns Hopkins University, where he earned an MBA degree.

With the capacity to produce more than 30 billion labels each year, Lux Global Label serves customers including some of the largest and best-known companies in the consumer products, consumer battery, and pharmaceutical industries. Lux Global Label distributes its products to large manufacturers as well as bottle decorators and contract packagers. It is a primary supplier to many of its customers.

  

More information on Lux Global Label is available online.