Bob Landaal Provides Annual FBA Update, Recognized For Service To The Association BY BOB LANDAAL It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve as Fibre Box Association (FBA) Chairman for the past year. For me, it is a duty I have not taken lightly given the history of my family’s involvement with the association. My great grand- father was a past FBA Chairman. My grandfather, along with Mr. Shine, had the foresight to gather their peer group into what would become the FBA
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Independent Sheet Plant Workshop. My Uncle Steve served on the FBA Board of Directors, and I attended my first meeting 18 years ago. I am the 4th generation of my family to be involved in FBA and I can’t begin to tell you how much it has meant to me. From my first FBA meeting until now, it has been my privilege to learn from and to serve with some of the greatest minds in our industry. I have learned so much and I have forged so many great friendships and relation- ships by being involved with FBA. It is truly immeasurable the amount of knowledge and success in the room when you attend an FBA meeting of any kind. This past year, I had the opportunity to reflect on the benefits FBA pro- vides to its members and to lead the association though a strategic eval- uation. The work we did as Board members and as the Board’s Executive Committee will help forge FBA’s path forward for the next several years. In this past year alone, FBA has: • Transitioned from monthly to quarterly reporting of industry statistics and created a new monthly Box Segment Demand Indicators Report. The report contains macroeconomic and market segment data sum- marized and illustrated in graphs with accompanying bullet point in- formation. Data is sourced from the latest government resources and compiled to keep you informed about the drivers of demand for box shipments between quarterly statistical reports. • Completed Year 5 of the Corrugated Industry Promotion Program and launched a new three-year commitment to the program with support from our industry supplier partners. • Held the association’s first ever virtual Annual Meeting. • Conducted virtual meetings with customers including Amazon (twice), Bob Landaal, left, is presented with the FBA Chairman’s gavel by his uncle, Steve Landaal, at the FBA 2022 Annual Meeting in Laguna Beach, CA, last week.
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