F&DP hires new marketing manager - End Flaps - Brief Article

Food & Drug Packaging, Feb, 2003

Food & Drug Packaging's display advertising customers on the East Coast will be serviced by a new Senior Marketing Manager with years of experience in trade publishing sales.

Blayne Long has worked in advanced positions with a number of major trade publications, covering a variety of fields. His curriculum vitae includes:

Packaging Digest: National Sales director

Computerworld: Regional vice president of sales

Building Supply Business: Publisher

Long is a graduate of Purdue University and served four years in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany, with the rank of sergeant. He lives with his wife and four sons in suburban Chicago.

"Blayne is an accomplished sales and publishing professional," says Pete Giannakopolous, vice president and group publisher for Stagnito Communications, the parent company of Food & Drug Packaging. "He brings end less energy, creativity, competitiveness and professionalism to the Food & Drug Packaging team."

Long's territory includes, as he puts it, "Everything between Maine and Florida and east of the Appalachians." He can be reached on his cell phone at 847-226-5495 or by e-mail at blong@stagnito.com.