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Central & Eastern Europe Label Markets

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, the world saw the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Several years later, the privatized label industry in this region emerged.

And so, while North Americans and Western Europeans began to tackle complex printing technologies, people like Vladimir Kurciev, Sterin Boris and Drabyk Volodymyr began a complex job of a different sort: launching the label industry in their own countries.

In 1993, Vladimir Kurciev founded label converting company Moniko in Skopje, Macedonia. He started out printing simple labels using flexography and says he was the first to bring the labeling industry to his country.

In Belarus, "I was one of the people who in 1995 first brought flexo technology and the first label printing machine to Belarus," says Sterin Boris, who is now joint owner of three companies related to the labeling industry: Printstar,......

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