Printing Powerhouses

I CAN’T BELIEVE it’s been a year since I’ve had the honor of presenting my first-ever Big Picture’s Women in Wide Format Awards at the 2024 Printing United Expo. In my decades of experience as a printing industry editor, I’ve seen first-hand female leadership continue to rise as it has since the beginning of our industry.

Women-owned wide-format printing businesses as well as the talented and dedicated ladies who work for their companies are nothing new. We’ve been here all along, although somewhere along the way in its infancy, the printing industry became known as male dominated. It’s been a long, committed struggle for women to get the rightful recognition they deserve not only for their creative talents as excellent PSPs, but also as business owners, managers, community leaders, philanthropic donors, and much more.

So, 10 years ago, Big Picture took the lead and created these prestigious awards to celebrate the incredible accomplishments of six female wide-format leaders who go above and beyond being successful business owners or executives.

We’ll raise our glasses in a live ceremony at Printing United Expo in Orlando on October 23 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Big Picture booth, #480. Please take a load off your tired trade show feet and join us for some networking, celebration, fun, and… Oh! A bar.

We’d like to thank our sponsors who have helped make this esteemed awards program possible: Durst, Nekoosa, Roland, Nazdar, Printing United, SAi, and the Women in Print Alliance.

Congratulations to our winners:

• Kristi Jenkins-Correa
  Owner, Signarama Fort Collins
  Fort Collins, CO
• Renee Friedman
  President/Owner, FASTSIGNS Orlando Central
  Orlando, FL
  Fort Collins, CO
• Lindsay Theisen
  Owner, Senior Graphic Designer, Just Fab Graphics
  Mt. Pleasant, MI
• Monique Berg
  Vice President of Operations, BIG INK
  Eagan, MN
• Savvy Walker
  Owner, Signarama
  Fort Collins, CO
• Terry Smith
  Partner/Owner, FASTSIGNS of Murfreesboro & Cookeville
  Murfreesboro, TN