Roberts PolyPro Hires New Marketing Man
December 10, 2002
CHARLOTTE, NC - Roberts PolyPro, Inc., an innovative leader in packaging and converting solutions announces the addition of John Eklund, Marketing Communications Director.
Formerly the Marketing Communications/Creative Director of Brammer Engineering, Inc. in Shreveport, LA, Eklund graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.S. degree in Marketing and minor in Computer Science from Louisiana State University in Shreveport and received an MBA from Louisiana Tech University.
Eklund's background includes numerous honors and awards, including founding Inexplicable Productions, a web site development company, and co-authoring with Dr. Selwyn Ellis the pending publication, "Online Identity Crisis: Problems With Protection and the Domain Name System." Eklund has been a member of the American Marketing Association since 1996, is a Macromedia Certified Web Site Developer, and has given numerous lectures about the web and Internet at conferences, seminars, and classrooms.
Among his duties at Roberts PolyPro will be advertising, graphic design, communications, strategic planning, and web site development.
Roberts PolyPro produces a comprehensive line of packaging and converting fixtures, fitments, carriers and components as well as a modular line of packaging and converting machinery. For more information about Roberts PolyPro, call 704-588-1794, fax 704-588-1821, or visit www.robertspolypro.com.
About Roberts PolyPro
Roberts PolyPro provides innovative product packaging solutions for the food and beverage, paperboard packaging and textile markets. They manufacture innovative plastic solutions including bottle carriers, box handles, pour spouts, j-hooks and more to enhance the function of consumer packaging, as well as a complete line of standard and custom packaging machinery to both apply their plastic solutions and to help paperboard manufacturers increase efficiency, eliminate labor, reduce repetitive motion injuries, boost productivity and save money. The company is based in Charlotte, NC, and has helped many Fortune 500 companies launch successful new products. Roberts PolyPro is a division of Pro Mach, a Cincinnati, Ohio based provider of integrated packaging products and solutions for food, beverage, household goods, pharmaceutical, and other diverse consumer and industrial companies. Through three business units and related divisions, Pro Mach provides equipment, training, installation, and parts in primary packaging, end-of-line packaging, and identification and tracking.
For more information about Pro Mach visit our website at www.ProMachInc.com.
Media Contact:
Jack Aguero
513-831-8778, ext 423
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