ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Alpha Packaging walked away from the National Association of Container Distributors (NACD) conference last week with an Award of Excellence, one of the top honors awarded by the NACD.

The award is a result of the high marks Alpha received from the NACD in areas such as leadership, communication, product and support staff, and marketing.

"Alpha is a visionary, stays knowledgeable about industry trends and clearly understands its role as a packaging supplier,” says Chris Barry, NACD Communications Manager. “Its strong management team strives for leadership in the industry, is accessible and maintains meaningful communication with all its constituents.”
Barry also credits Alpha for its prompt response time to sample requests and its well-trained and helpful customer service staff.

The recognition follows other prestigious packaging industry awards including HVL’s Top Packaging Supplier and Berlin Packaging’s Plastic Supplier of the Year and overall Supplier of the Year awards.

Alpha President and CEO Dave Spence gives thanks to the unified effort Alpha employees at all levels make each day. “What these awards show is that other people recognize all the hard work and dedication of everyone at Alpha,” says Spence. “It just goes to show you that persistence and coordinated effort by everyone is a winning formula.”

The award follows Alpha’s recent equity partnership with Stonebridge Partners, a private investment firm. The relationship will provide substantial capital investment dollars to fuel Alpha’s continued growth in the plastic packaging marketplace.

In each of the past six years, Alpha has sustained double-digit sales increases, and concluded 2004 with $47 million in sales, a 30% increase over 2003 sales figures. Alpha Packaging is among the top 30 largest blow molders of plastic bottles and jars in North America.

About Alpha Packaging:
Alpha Packaging is a leading manufacturer of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and jars for the nutritional supplement, pharmaceutical, personal care, and niche food and beverage industries. In addition to manufacturing, Alpha Packaging has tool-making capabilities, from unit body cavity molds to complete high-cavity production tooling. It also offers in-house design on CAD/CAM systems, serving as a strategic industrial design partner for customers in a variety of industries. The current management team has been in place since 1985.

Alpha maintains headquarters and manufacturing facilities in St. Louis, Missouri and also has sales and manufacturing plants in Brooklyn, New York and Salt Lake City, Utah. Alpha’s sales force sells its products through leading domestic distributors, and also maintains a network of international distributors in key markets. For additional information, visit www.alphap.com.

About National Association of Container Distributors:
NACD is a professional association of rigid packaging distributors who supply plastic and glass bottles, cans, drams, tubes, pumps, sprayers and other closure systems. Services include warehousing and labeling. For more information, visit www.nacd.net.