Left to Right: Mark Glendenning, Stephen Fishbein, Tara Halpin, Joel Carmany, Dale Coates, and Greg Manns. Not Pictured: Adam Feil
Nashville, TN — TLMI (Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute) proudly announced the recipients of the 2025 Eugene Singer Excellence in Business Management Awards during this year’s TLMI Converter Leadership Meeting, held in Clearwater, Florida. Among the most prestigious honors in the tag, label, and package printing industry, the Eugene Singer Award recognizes outstanding operational and financial excellence as measured through the TLMI Management Ratio Study.
Presented annually, the Eugene Singer Awards recognize converter member companies demonstrating superior performance across a comprehensive set of growth and profitability metrics. Winners are selected by company size category, based on confidential benchmarking data managed independently by Industry Insights, allowing participants to compare their performance against peer organizations across the industry.
“As I shared at the opening, these awards recognize excellence in business management measured and defined by an established set of benchmarks,” said TLMI Chairman, Mark Glendenning. “The Eugene Singer Awards honor companies that demonstrate strong discipline, strategic leadership, and above?average performance across a broad range of financial metrics.”
The Management Ratio Study evaluates 11 key performance factors, offering a well?rounded assessment of a company’s overall financial health. Achieving a Eugene Singer Award requires consistent, above?average results across the majority of these metrics—reflecting operational excellence, long?term sustainability, and effective leadership.
The awards are named in honor of Eugene Singer, who pioneered the benchmarking management ratios that continue to serve as a foundational tool for performance evaluation within the converter industry.
2025 Eugene Singer Award Winners
Small Company Category
Trend Printing / International Label, Inc.
Accepted by Stephen Fishbein
Mid?Range Company Category
Steinhauser
Accepted by Tara Halpin, CEO & Owner
Medium Company Category
MakeStickers
Accepted virtually on behalf of the company by Adam Feil, President, who shared recorded remarks reflecting on the achievement
Large Company Category
Online Label Group
Accepted by Joel Carmany, President
“These awards carry deep meaning for the companies that earn them,” said Dale Coates, TLMI CEO & President. “One of my favorite parts of this role is calling the winners ahead of the meeting. Hearing the pride, gratitude, and emotion in those conversations is incredibly powerful—it’s a reminder that this recognition represents years of discipline, leadership, and commitment to excellence.”
The Eugene Singer Awards were announced as the final honors of the evening, bringing the TLMI Converter Leadership Meeting to a close by celebrating not only outstanding operational performance, but the people and teams behind it—leaders whose dedication continues to strengthen the converter community and the industry as a whole.
