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Total Label USA Joins the Fortis Solutions Group Team.
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, April 8, 2021 – Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Total Label.
Founded in 2004 by Janet Farris and Chris Farris with locations in Whitefish, MT and Memphis TN, Total Label (www.totallabel.com) provides complex pressure sensitive, extended content and booklet labels utilizing flexographic, letterpress, digital and hybrid printing technologies. Total primarily serves the agriculture, health and beauty, nutraceutical, home goods, and food/beverage end-markets. Janet and Chris will remain in leadership roles with the company.
Fortis President and CEO John O. Wynne, Jr. commented, “Total Label is known throughout the industry for its highly engineered, value-added products with quick turnaround times. The acquisition of Total will further augment our product portfolio while expanding our geographic reach to the Pacific Northwest. I’m looking forward to working alongside Janet Farris and Chris Farris and the Total team to continue their growth trajectory.”
“As a family-owned business we have always been very purposeful in how we have built the culture and strategy of Total Label,” said Total Label co-founder and owner Janet Farris. “A partnership with Fortis allows us to continue to grow, provide excellent products, and foster a positive environment for our employees.”
Chris Farris, Total Label co-founder and owner also added, “Speed. Quality. Innovation. That is the motto we’ve employed at Total Label over the past 15 years, and it was the same way when we helped our father run his business. We chose to combine forces with Fortis because they will allow us to continue to innovate for our customers well into the future.”
Employing over 900 employees across fourteen sites, Fortis intends to continue its pursuit of attractive acquisitions to further the breadth of product offerings and locations which can serve its customer base.
For more information, or to contact a sales representative to learn more about how Fortis can make a difference for you, please call 1-844-FSG-LBLS or visit www.FortisSolutionsGroup.com.
About Fortis Solutions Group
At Fortis Solutions Group, we provide a differentiated approach giving our customers a powerful advantage in the marketplace through industry leading lead times, quality control, color management and solutions-oriented approaches. We deliver a breadth of product offerings utilizing our outstanding flexographic, letterpress, offset and digital printing capabilities. These offerings include pressure sensitive and shrink sleeve labels, multi-ply coupon and flexible packaging printing, extended booklet printing, pouches, folding cartons, label applicators and variable data printing. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, the company also has manufacturing and sales offices in Austin, TX, Catoosa, OK, Ellington, CT, Flowery Branch, GA, High Point, NC, Kansas City, MO, Lewisville, TX, Memphis, TN, Merced, CA, Orem, UT, West Chester, OH, Whitefish, MT and Wixom, MI.
About Main Post Partners
Main Post Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on investing in proven growth companies across the consumer value chain. Main Post Partners invests in both majority and minority positions primarily in first institutional capital situations where founders, entrepreneurs and management teams are looking for an experienced partner to help build their companies to full potential. With a “Partnership, not Ownership” approach, Main Post Partners works closely with a network of successful executives to provide operational and strategic support to its management partners. Main Post Partners was named to Inc.’s list of The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs.
Brendan Kinzie discusses the wine label industry with Label and Narrow Web Magazine
Wine labeling – much like the liquid encapsulated within – is a science. There is a premium on diversity, and in most cases, the wine label impacts the sale. Read the article here.
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Fortis Solutions Group CEO John Wynne discusses the company’s acquisition strategy with North America editor Chelsea McDougall.
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Fortis Solutions Group Achieves Sustainable Green Printer Certification in Merced, CA
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, January 14, 2020—Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners and a leading provider of labels, flexible packaging, shrink sleeves, cartons, and applicators, is pleased to announce that their flexible packaging and label facility in Merced, CA received certification as a Sustainable Green Printer (SGP) from the third-party organization the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership.
Fortis President and CEO John O. Wynne, Jr. commented, “I am incredibly proud of our Merced team for achieving this notable recognition. The SGP certification validates our commitment, both internally and externally, to providing innovative and differentiating sustainable solutions.”
SGP certification takes into account the entire print facility, its process, product, and social areas. SGP certification elevates a printer into an elite group of top sustainable printers, recognized by print buyers and the printing industry. SGP certification is supported by industry associations, including the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) and the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI.)
“Sustainability has been a core value of our company for many years,” observes Fortis President of Flexible Packaging, David Bankson, “The SGP has done a terrific job developing a challenging yet attainable standard driven by data and real-world solutions to the challenges we face as a packaging printer. We are excited to join the SGP as a certified printer and, I’m proud of the commitment to sustainability our team practices that allowed us to achieve this.”
As a certified SGP printer, Fortis is committed to exceeding sustainability targets by reducing waste, conserving energy, sourcing sustainable materials, creating a safe workplace, continuous improvement, and lowering our carbon footprint. Each year sustainability projects are identified and tracked to document areas of improvement; an audit by the third-party certification organization occurs every two years.
About Fortis Solutions Group
At Fortis Solutions Group, we provide a differentiated approach giving our customers a powerful advantage in the marketplace through industry leading lead times, quality control, color management and solutions-oriented approaches. We deliver a breadth of product offerings utilizing our outstanding flexographic, offset and digital printing capabilities. These offerings include pressure sensitive and shrink sleeve labels, multi-ply coupon and flexible packaging printing, extended booklet printing, pouches, folding cartons, label applicators and variable data printing. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, the company also has manufacturing and sales offices in Austin, TX, Catoosa, OK, Ellington, CT, Flowery Branch, GA, High Point, NC, Kansas City, MO, Lewisville, TX, Memphis, TN, Merced, CA, Napa, CA, Orem, UT, West Chester, OH and Wixom, MI.
About Main Post Partners
Main Post Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on investing in proven growth companies across the consumer value chain. Main Post Partners invests in both majority and minority positions primarily in first institutional capital situations where founders, entrepreneurs and management teams are looking for an experienced partner to help build their companies to full potential. With a “Partnership, not Ownership” approach, Main Post Partners works closely with a network of successful executives to provide operational and strategic support to its management partners. Main Post Partners was named to Inc.’s list of The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs.
About the Sustainable Green Printing Partnership
The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) is a non-profit organization that certifies printing facilities’ sustainability best practices, including and beyond regulatory compliance. SGP advocates best practices and innovation among print community stakeholders, aligning the printing industry and its customers in the pursuit of a more accountable sustainable supply chain.
Fortis Solutions Group Welcomes Kala Packaging to the One Fortis team.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Fortis Solutions Group LLC, a portfolio company of Main Post Partners, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Kala Packaging.
Kala Packaging, based in Orem UT, is a leading printer of pressure sensitive labels and flexible packaging. Offering variable content printing, anti-counterfeit and security solutions, and food safe flexible packaging including pouches, Kala serves the food and beverage, health and beauty and nutraceutical end-markets.
Fortis President and CEO John O. Wynne, Jr. commented, “With its fleet of digital presses and top tier flexographic printing technology, Maui Chai and the Kala team have established a national presence in the quick turn labels and flexible packaging markets. We are fortunate to join forces with such an outstanding team and are excited to further the value-added offerings we provide.”
Kala President and CEO Maui Chai added, “While technology has always been an important characteristic of our ethos, supporting our customers as a vital extension of their operation is a foundational principle at Kala. Fortis understands the importance of these relationships and will persist in the continual removal of industry barriers that our customers have enjoyed with Kala over the past eighteen years. The comprehensive abilities Fortis flows into this partnership complements Kala’s capability inimitably.”
Employing over 850 employees across fourteen sites, Fortis intends to continue its pursuit of attractive acquisitions to further the breadth of product offerings and locations which can serve its customer base.
For more information, or to contact a sales representative to learn more about how Fortis can make a difference for you, please call 1-844-FSG-LBLS or visit www.FortisSolutionsGroup.com.
About Fortis Solutions Group
At Fortis Solutions Group, we provide a differentiated approach giving our customers a powerful advantage in the marketplace through industry leading lead times, quality control, color management and solutions-oriented approaches. We deliver a breadth of product offerings utilizing our outstanding flexographic, offset and digital printing capabilities. These offerings include pressure sensitive and shrink sleeve labels, multi-ply coupon and flexible packaging printing, extended booklet printing, pouches, folding cartons, label applicators and variable data printing. Headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA, the company also has manufacturing and sales offices in Austin, TX, Catoosa, OK, Ellington, CT, Flowery Branch, GA, Fort Worth, TX, High Point, NC, Kansas City, MO, Lewisville, TX, Memphis, TN, Merced, CA, Orem, UT, West Chester, OH and Wixom, MI.
About Main Post Partners
Main Post Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on investing in proven growth companies across the consumer value chain. Main Post Partners invests in both majority and minority positions primarily in first institutional capital situations where founders, entrepreneurs and management teams are looking for an experienced partner to help build their companies to full potential. With a “Partnership, not Ownership” approach, Main Post Partners works closely with a network of successful executives to provide operational and strategic support to its management partners. Main Post Partners was named to Inc.’s list of The 50 Best Private Equity Firms for Entrepreneurs.
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Fortis Renew Wash off labels contribute to a circular economy.
As you’re painfully aware, nothing about 2020 onwards has been normal. But it hasn’t been all bad, either. Despite a pandemic, people are still thinking about ways to improve themselves and the planet so that the new “normal” will be healthier, happier, and more sustainable. One of the ways they’re achieving this goal is by becoming more conscious shoppers — starting with choosing products that come in more environmentally friendly packaging. What does that look like? It can be as simple as a wash-off label.
North Americans produce 3.1 million tons of PET each year, according to the PET Resin Association (PETRA). If properly recycled, those products (i.e., water bottles, clam shell containers, shampoo bottles) can be broken down to create new items, thus extending the plastic’s life cycle and perpetuating the circular economy. It’s the good old “reduce, reuse, recycle” saying in action. Overall, the process uses fewer carbon emissions than if you were to create materials from virgin plastics, so brands and consumers alike can feel good knowing that they’re making decisions that have a direct impact on the environment.
Once you toss out your used PET items to materials recovery facilities, they’re sorted, washed, and then processed. The PET is broken down into flakes before it becomes pelletized and melted into new materials. The clam shell container that once held your blueberries can go on to become a plastic water bottle, thus reducing carbon emissions by eliminating the need to create more virgin plastics.
Because PET packaging is lauded for its clarity and food-grade safe CO2 barrier protection, the recycled PET flakes should be clean and clear. However, sometimes, standard labels remain connected to the plastic and contaminate the recycling stream, causing discoloration and lower-quality PET flakes that cannot always be reused and can wind up in landfills. That’s where wash-off labels come into play.
At Fortis Solutions, our wash-off labels are created with consumer and planetary health in mind. While standard pressure-sensitive labels can contaminate the PET recyclability stream with adhesives and inks, Fortis Solutions Group’s RENEW™ pressure-sensitive labels separate cleanly during the water bath stage at the recycler by using an innovative water-based adhesive that’s compliant with the Association of Plastic Recyclers’ (APR) highest standards. Brands interested in further perpetuating the circular economy can also feel good knowing our labels are created with a 90% post-consumer recycled content PET liner.
There’s no need to sacrifice style to be sustainable, either. You can still create eye-catching graphics that will make your brand stand out on store shelves, be they virtual or in a brick-and-mortar store. Our labels are available in clear and white film face materials, all of which are customizable to fit your brand’s needs and aesthetic.
Wash-off labels also give brands an opportunity to market themselves as change-makers. A Futerra survey conducted in 2018 found that 88% of respondents wanted brands to help them live more environmentally friendly and ethical lifestyles. Research from Nielsen suggests a growing number of shoppers — 38% as of 2017 — are willing to pay more for products that come in sustainable packages, too. That percentage is likely to rise as more Millennials choose brands and products that more closely align with their personal values.
Still, in today’s fast-paced society, it might be too much to expect that consumers are going to fully vet products and companies before making their purchases in stores and online. Brands can eliminate the guesswork by advertising their sustainable practices directly on their products with wash-off How2Recycle labels.
More than just informative, these labels make a statement that brands are committed to doing their part to reduce carbon emissions, reduce landfill waste, limit the amount of virgin plastics flooding the market, and perpetuate the circular economy.
Renew Wash Off labels and How2Recycle make it easy for consumers to realize a circular plastic economy.