In June 2020, CPA presented three webinars designed to help contract packagers and manufacturers (CP/CMs) during the current COVID-19 crisis. All are available here. They include:
· “Contingency Plan Response™ - Helping Business Leaders and Organizations to Adapt and Thrive in the Face of Uncertainty”: Ryan Weiss, President of Effective Performance Strategies, and Dr. Dave NieKamp, a licensed clinical psychologist, share their best steps to help your business acclimate and prosper in this time of crisis. Due to COVID-19, CP/CMs now more than ever need to focus on how to adapt and thrive in the face of crisis. Everyone has experienced significant disruption, and the time for creating new habits starts now. Watch this webinar replay to learn the four steps of leading through challenging times and the tools to navigate the new, complex environment we live in now.
· “Outbreak Readiness and Improving Resilience in Supply Chains”: In this webinar, presented by CPA along with F4SS and Nulogy, panelists share insights into lessons learned from the COVID-19 outbreak, how they have adapted their operations to prepare for a potential second wave, and how they’re readying their businesses for increased resilience to guard against any future disruptions in their global supply chains.
· “Transcending Disruption: Driving Consumer-Centric Packaging and Product Innovation”: In a competitive market, where innovative packaging and products can differentiate brands, influence shoppers, and drive growth, understanding the trends that will most impact consumers and your market is critical. This is even more important as consumers shift their behavior and expectations due to COVID-19. In this webinar, Phil Roos, CEO of Great Lakes GrowthWorks, and Brian Wagner, co-founder and Vice President of PTIS LLC, highlight the big trends you can leverage to create packaging and product innovation that truly disrupts and provide approaches to develop this disruptive innovation.
CPA Welcomes Board Members
In March 2020, CPA announced the results of its Board of Directors Election. Join us in congratulating those Regular CPA members voted to the CPA Board of Directors. Among them are Michael Collins, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for Sterling Contract Packaging, Inc.; Jennifer Cusick, Director, Sales Operations, for Trividia Manufacturing Solutions; and Rob Reinders, President of Performance Packaging of Nevada.
Elected to the board for the first time, Collins has been with Sterling Contract Packaging for 18 years, during which time the company has experienced incredible growth, building a 150,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art facility in 2016. Collins became involved with the CPA in 2007 and most recently helped with the development of the new RFQ tool on the CPA website.
Also newly elected is Cusick, who has 30-plus years of sales, technical, and management experience in various industries, most recently in the manufacturing of EPA- and FDA-regulated consumer products. She has been with Trividia since 2010.
Reinders, who has been re-elected to the CPA Board of Directors, has more than 30 years of knowledge in the production, operations, and sales/marketing of flexible packaging products throughout the flexible packaging industry. Reinders founded and has been the President of Performance Packaging since January 1995, founded and has been President of Performance Machinery Corporation (PMC) since January 2015, and founded and has been CEO of RCR Beverages dba Blue Kangaroo Contract Filling Services since January 2015.
