QLM HOSTS GLOBAL SALES CONFERENCE

By Wayne Robinson | 31 January 2025

Multi-national Australian-owned printer, QLM Label Makers Group, has just held its global sales conference, hosted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, at one of its operations, Hoàng Hà Label Co.

Vietnamese Tet new year event: Simon Pugh (rear second left) with the leadership team — *Vietnamese Tet new year event for QLM: Simon Pugh (rear second left) with some of the team*

Running over four days around Tet, the Vietnamese new year, the theme was "Hitting Top Gear: Don't Stop Us Now!" with the event focusing on people, process and passion as the company keeps to its goal to deliver label and packaging solutions across Asia Pacific.

The conference saw a team of more than 80 staff participating in workshops, keynote addresses, team-building activities, and networking within the group.

Keynote speakers were Dennis Choo from HP, Phil Kelly from Thrive Saigon, and Lindsay Nutley business enablement manager at QLM.

Companies taking part in the QLM conference included Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials (Cath Cornaggia & Bhupinder Singh, UPM Raflatac (Sim Bean Low) Ball & Doggett (Leigh Hooper), Spicers Australia (Napil Abdel), Siegwerk (Chau Thanh Vu) and HP (Yoav Lotan).

*Global sales conference: Lindsay Lutley, QLM, with team*

Nutley said, “Their support of the conference and in general, provides QLM with the ability to deliver world class label and packaging solutions.”

The team was also educated on the latest label and packaging innovations from the workshop presenters during the day: UPM Raflatac: Sim Bean Low, Patricia Quah, Junion Zhao, Nguyen Yen Nhi, Thanh N. & Son Nguyen. Avery Dennison: Suu Hoang, Nattapong Taraseina, Bhupinder Singh, Pritika Barbosa, Kejin Zhang, Linh Nguyen, Bao Ngo, Lam Nguyen & Ping Choong Ng.

Nutley said, “Our biggest learnings from the event were that we have great passion, process and pride in our offering and the solutions we provide - now we just need to show you how to make your labels and packaging wow.”

*Tet time: QLM Label Makers with Simon Pugh (third from left)*

Hoang Ha Label Co opened its new $22m 6000sqm manufacturing facility in Ho Chi Minh City some 15 months ago, in order, it said, to meet the increasingly diverse demands of the Vietnamese and broader Asia-Pacific markets.

QLM operates in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Malaysia, as well as here in Australia, where it has production plants in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The company was founded by Del and Dave Pugh in Brisbane in 1973.