Packaging Solutions Holdings Names Tim French as Chief Operating Officer

NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Packaging Solutions Holdings, Inc. announced today that it has named Tim French as Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately.  Packaging Solutions Holdings was founded by Wellspring Capital Management and industry veteran Harold Bevis, who together are creating a Top 10 packaging company focused on value-added packaging for the food, medical and consumer markets.

Mr. French has more than 25 years of experience in the packaging industry, ten of them as a Chief Operating Officer.  As Vice President and General Manager at Pliant Corporation, he was responsible for a $300 million division, overseeing multiple plants in a number of countries, and a 30-person sales team.  Before Pliant Corporation, Mr. French was President and Chief Executive Officer of a Canadian-based manufacturing company, Snowbear Limited; and, before that was President and Chief Operating Officer of PCL Packaging a polyethylene-based packaging company with operations in both Canada and the U.S.  He began his career as a plant manager at Uniplast Industries, another Canadian packaging firm.

Harold Bevis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Packaging Solutions Holdings, said, "We are thrilled to add depth to our management team with the addition of Tim as Chief Operating Officer.  Tim is a gifted leader with a wealth of experience in the North American packaging industry.  As COO, he will oversee all of our operations and our expanding sales and procurement organizations.  He is the ideal person to uphold our industry-leading operational standards as we create a new Top 10 competitor in the packaging industry."

Mr. French said, "I am truly honored to be joining the Packaging Solutions Holdings team and look forward to working with everyone at the Company as we continue to add new divisions, and produce superior products and services for our customers.  I am particularly excited about our first major initiative currently underway – a new $20 million state-of-the-art greenfield packaging plant in the Midwest which will add significant depth and breadth to our product offering enhancing our ability to serve our customers across North America."

About Packaging Solutions Holdings

Packaging Solutions Holdings was founded in 2010 by Wellspring Capital and industry veteran Harold Bevis.  Packaging Solutions Holdings is creating a Top 10 packaging company focused on value-added packaging for the food, medical and consumer markets.  The first division of Packaging Solutions Holdings was Jen-Coat.  Jen-Coat supplies the food packaging, medical and industrial markets with a wide range of extrusion laminated, extrusion coated, metalized, and adhesive laminated structures.  Products include paper/foil laminations, film/foil laminations, film/film laminations, composite can laminations, coated nonwovens, coated papers, release liners and many other specialty packaging materials.  Further information about Jen-Coat can be found at www.jencoat.com.

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