Name: ALWAYS ON MY MIND: THE STATE OF THE PRESSING INDUSTRY 2024
Start: 2024-06-04T09:10:00-0500
End: 2024-06-04T09:55:00-0500

ALWAYS ON MY MIND: THE STATE OF THE PRESSING INDUSTRY 2024

The industry has gone from under-capacity to over-capacity in 24 months. Orders used to be “just in case”, now they’re “just in time,” and in smaller quantities to boot. Our C-Suite panel discusses the unprecedented pressing issues (pun intended) of the day on both sides of the Atlantic.

Moderators

Larry Jaffee

Co-Founder/Conference Director, Making Vinyl

Larry Jaffee, the author of Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century, is a New York-based journalist whose writing has been appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, among numerous other publications. Music has been Jaffee’s passion since... Read More →

Speakers

Connie Comeau

COO, The ADS Group, Copy Cats Vinyl

Brandon Seavers

Co-Founder & CEO, Memphis Record Pressing

Memphis Record Pressing (MRP) was founded in 2014 when native Memphian Brandon Seavers and Detroit transplant Mark Yoshida partnered with Matthew Johnson & Bruce Watson of Fat Possum Records (Oxford, MS). Armed with over 25 years of experience in the music and manufacturing industry... Read More →

Mark Michaels

Chairman & CEO, United Record Pressing

Mark Michaels is the CEO & Chairman of United Record Pressing, LLC, the largest manufacturer of vinyl records in North America, based in Nashville, Tennessee, and its sister company, URP Music Distributors, LLC, a leading one-stop wholesaler of vinyl records serving retailers around... Read More →

Ton Vermeulen

Founder & CEO, Record Industry

Ton Vermeulen is the proud owner of Record Industry, a vinyl pressing plant in the Netherlands, together with his wife, Mieke. Record Industry, which roots go back to the fifties and started as Artone, is known for pressing high-quality vinyl and is one of the most automated vinyl... Read More →