James Meire has taken up the role of director of business development for Labelexpo.

Mr Meire has worked in the publishing and events space for more than 25 years. Since early 2021, he has been employed by Informa, first as a digital account executive and then business development manager within its Informa Markets division, and then as business development director at Qualifi, a first-party B2B data and market intelligence business also operating within Informa Markets.

His appointment comes as Labelexpo Europe gets set to return to Brussels, Belgium for the final time before moving to Barcelona, Spain in 2025.

The parent Informa organisation acquired Tarsus, the organiser of Labelexpo Global Series events, for just shy of $1 billion earlier this year.

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