About
Hally Labels
Sales Team
Sales Team Australia
Our team work closely with our clients to brainstorm label solutions, forecast demand, manage stock, and ensure your labelling needs are seamlessly met. Each of our Account Managers has expertise across all types of industries and applications.
Please scroll down to find our NZ-based team, they're under the Australian group.
Steve Kabaj
National Sales Manager
Joined in 2010
Steve is the National Sales Manager for Australia and looks after the Sales and Customer Action teams. Steve has held Operational, Sales and Management Consultant roles in his past lives. You can read more about Steve's pedigree in his Leadership Team bio. One thing not mentioned there but we cannot leave out...Steve is mad for cricket and also his beloved North Melbourne Kangaroos team.
Allen Ford
Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Allen is part of the Hally team based out of our Brisbane facility. Allen has a strong background in FMCG with experience in dairy, beverages and general grocery. His energy and eagerness provide a great resource for our customers in the development of their labelling needs. Allen has fast become very technically competent and with his friendly and affable nature he is very easy to do business with.
Aron Finn
Senior Account Manager
Joined in 2021
Aron is the newest member to join our Hally Labels sales team, based out of our Melbourne Sales Office. Aron, however, is not new to labels. With previous roles in senior sales and technical sales support, Aron has looked after label clients in retail, industrial and leisure industries. Aron also brings a strong knowledge of TGA requirements in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical space. An avid AFL and NFL supporter, we look forward to Aron strengthening our presence and servicing our expanding customer base in Victoria and Tasmania.
Craig Lems
Strategic Account Manager
Joined in 2007
Craig is a Strategic Account Manager with a number of national customers. With extensive sales and sales management experience in the FMCG and beverage sectors his knowledge of these industries, coupled with his detailed understanding of applications and materials, delivers exceptional solutions to our customers. Craig has a supporting and coaching role to some of our Account Management team, and is a dab hand at presenting our regular Business Reviews.
David Mollee
Senior Account Manager
Joined in 2008
David is the Senior Account Manager for a variety of clients in Queensland, and has special expertise in the meat and poultry sectors. He also looks after our clients in Western Australia, and makes regular trips to the west coast. David's experience and skills are second-to-none and it says it all when we reveal customer compliments about him are frequent!
Eddie Adamsons
Senior Account Manager
Joined in 2013
Eddie joined us from Adhesif and is based at our Sydney site. His background in packaging, labelling and shrink sleeves, with extensive experience in supplying to major manufacturing and FMCG companies, enables Eddie to add considerable value to our major customers as a Senior Account Manager. We are delighted to have him on our team. Ask him how his last basketball game went (he plays every week) or his love of Utah Jazz.
Jane Johnson
Internal Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Based in Brisbane, Jane is looks after a variety of accounts as well as being a member of our Marketing team. Her customer base is varied including artisan food producers, craft beverages, cosmetics and retail. Attention to detail, organisation and tenacity are the key qualities that ensure her clients receive exceptional service. We've taught Jane everything she knows about labels from a standing start in 2018 and she's going great guns.
Lindsay Byrom
Account Manager
Joined in 2010
Lindsay is the Account Manager for a number of Sydney based customers. Her knowledge of materials helps customers select the best label solution for their needs in FMCG, confectionery, pharmaceutical and chemical environments. If Lindsay is your Account Manager you can be sure you have the entire package - she is intelligent, well-informed, fast, easy to deal with and has a great sense of humour.
Manuel Rooney
Account Manager
Joined in 2012
Manuel is an Account Manager with a large portfolio of Queensland and Northern New South Wales customers in many industries. Whether it be beer and wine, non-food or industrial industries his knowledge helps provide his customers the right advice for their labelling needs with his extensive packaging experience. Manny's moustache ensures he fits right in with the craft alcohol sector where he enjoys assisting our growing number of gin-making customers.
Matthew Knight
Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Matthew joined us from Adhesif and is based at our Sydney site. Degree-qualified in Finance and Commerce, his pathway into the label industry started with one of our key paper suppliers, and so his knowledge of our raw materials is excellent. He is always happy to talk rugby, being a Kiwi, and loves catching a wave on a Sydney beach or improving his handicap on the course.
Patrick Farrell
Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Patrick is a member of our Australian Sales Team and is based out of our Melbourne Sales Office. He looks after a variety of clients across Victoria and South Australia. His background in packaging and print across various industries in manufacturing and wholesale gives him a solid platform to service our new and existing customer needs, and ensure the solutions he presents helps to deliver more business for them.
Paul Binnie
Account Manager
Joined in 2020
Paul is based out of our Sydney plant. He joins us with a strong background in account management and business development working in labelling and packaging with extensive experience in manufacturing (FMCG, wholesale, industrial) and B2B environments. Paul is able to provide valuable solutions for his customers when it comes to labelling from a 20+ year background in packaging and bottling, and he has a special affinity for our wine clients.
Sam Carroll
Internal Account Manager
Joined in 2013
Sam is currently on maternity leave.
Based in Brisbane Sam is a former Customer Action Team member who now looks after a variety of accounts. Her customer base is varied including artisan food producers, craft beverages, cosmetics and retail. Attention to detail, organisation and tenacity are the key qualities that ensure her clients receive exceptional service.
Steve Stills
Senior Account Manager
Joined in 1995
Steve is based out of our Sydney plant and has key responsibilities across many of our Sydney meat, FMCG, food and beverage customers. Steve brings extensive label experience to his customers, he is hard-working, technically astute, and is always exploring ways to deliver a better label solution by utilising his prepress background.
Vanessa Seng
Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Vanessa is based at our Melbourne sales office and looks after a range of our Victorian and Tasmanian customers. Vanessa has a background in Sales, Account Management, and Business Development. She has worked in a variety of industries including manufacturing and specifically die-making so she has a picture of our industry from a supplier's perspective.
Currently on maternity leave
Sales Team New Zealand
Murray Davis
National Sales Manager
Joined in 2012
Murray is the National Sales Manager for New Zealand, and looks after the Sales and Customer Action teams, as well as being a member of our Leadership Team and Senior Management Team. Murray is an experienced General Manager and Sales Manager and has always worked at the customer interface. You can read more about Murray's pedigree in his Leadership Team bio. When recently questioned for our newsletter on what makes him happy, he said: “Pretty simple really. A beautiful far north NZ beach on a hot sunny day surrounded by my family knowing that I’ve got some great beef to cook up on the BBQ later that day.” Yep, that sounds pretty good...
Chris Watt
Business Development Manager
Joined in 2002
Chris has been with Hally Labels for 18 years and has performed a number of roles; including as head of our quality department. This has instilled in Chris a deep understanding of all aspects of our business; there is very little about labels he doesn't know!! Chris manages our Business Development focus across the North Island plus the important Kiwifruit Sector for Hally meaning he will regularly be in the Bay of Plenty region. There is no doubt Chris’ energy and enthusiasm along with his strong technical and process background is a real asset for our customers. Outside of work Chris has his hands full as a husband and father. To ease his mind he likes to find himself at the family batch in the Coromandel as often as he can.
Dean Wrightson
Account Manager
Joined in 2018
Dean joins the New Zealand sales team with a strong background in Sales, Business Development and Account Management. He has significant experience in packaging, labelling and manufacturing environments having worked in numerous B2B environments. Dean’s role will have an aspect of new customer acquisition in the North Island whilst managing a significant existing customer base. Outside of work Dean is a real outdoors man who loves to spend quality time with his family either kayaking or hiking.
Guy Bignold
Account Manager
Joined in 2007
Guy is one of our meat and thermal experts, and looks after many of our regional meat clients across both the North and South Island. Years in the Red Meat Sector means there is very little that Guy hasn’t seen or had to deal with to support the industry and our customers. Unfortunately for Guy he is a long suffering West Ham supporter. Up until last year he was also a long suffering Hurricanes supporter, maybe the worm has turned...
Jane Edgecombe
Business Development Manager
Joined in 2019
Jane is an experienced Sales Professional. She joins us with a strong background in Sales, Business Development and Key Account Management. Jane has significant experience in digital/media sales and services, tourism and destination sales as well as marketing, promotional management and merchandising. Jane’s role will have a strong focus on new customer acquisition in the South Island whilst managing a broad existing customer base. She is a great addition to Hally adding to the wide variety of experience and background that exists in the Sales and Customer Action Teams.
Nick Shepard
Senior Account Manager
Joined in 2011
Nick is one of our meat and thermal experts, and looks after many of our regional meat clients. He also has significant wine labelling expertise and travels regularly within the South Island. Nick has exceptional Account Manager skills and inevitably develops deep and comprehensive relationships with his customers. Nick’s idea of heaven is packing up the family in the car and renting a bach at Kaiteriteri Beach, just outside of Nelson.
Rachel O'Connor
Account Manager
Joined in 2006
Rachel manages a large portfolio of smaller customers. Rachel was also in the past our Customer Services Manager so she acutely understands the demands and requirements of our customers. Her clients love her personal service and regularly make contact with the business to compliment her work and say thanks for going the extra mile. Rachel loves her rugby and has been a long supporter of the Hornby Rugby Club on the sidelines and at a Committee level.
Steven Hessey
Business Development Manager
Joined in 2018
Steven joined the New Zealand Sales Team with a very strong background in Sales and Account Management. Most recently he has been in the apparel sector with Glengyle Knitwear where he was an owner and Director in the business. Prior to this he sold print equipment for 6 years with Aarque Graphics with the 5 years before that selling furniture and joinery supplies to the Building sector. As a consequence Steven has a unique skillset blending creativity with pragmatism. When not at work Steven has his hands full as a father of three boys, which makes us tired just thinking about it!!
