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SPEAKERS SO FAR

Marco Mensink, Deputy Director General, CEPI
Marco was principal author of CEPI’s long-term
strategy (see main text), and will spell out how the
industry should be able to achieve 50 per cent more
added value from forest fibre by 2050 while still
cutting CO emissions by 80 per cent.
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David Williams, Director of Marketing,
Tesco Stores, and Katleen Pelsmakers,
Category Lead for Print and Paper, Tesco Stores
A customer perspective from the UK’s largest retailer.

David Allen, Executive Vice President, PaperlinX
David will spell out how the paper merchanting group
plans to return to profitability after it posted heavy
losses last year and warned shareholders that there
would be no further payments to them without a
significant improvement in trading conditions.

Nigel Stubley, Managing Director,
Northend Creative Print Solutions
A BPIF non-executive director and paper committee
member, Nigel will outline how important it is for
printers to work together with paper merchants to
reduce supply chain costs and provide added value
for their customers in the face of rising paper prices
brought about by reduced raw material supplies.

Thomas Ehrnrooth, Vice President, UPM-Kymmene
Thomas will explain how UPM plans to derive
optimum value from renewable and recyclable
material and how this will affect its customer base.

Mark Cruise, Head of Print Management, BSkyB
Mark will set out how BSkyB works with its print
and paper suppliers to ensure that it can source
sustainable products and services that can also meet
exacting performance requirements and tough price
criteria. One of the first thing’s Mark did after joining
BSkyB after 12 years in the industry was to bring print
buying in-house.

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