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Tributes paid to Ken Goddard
Tributes have been paid to former Packaging News editor Ken Goddard, who died last week.
Mike Hall, editor of Retail Packaging magazine, knew Goddard for almost 30 years and said he was always "optimistic, enthusiastic, staunch, and supportive as both a friend and colleague, albeit ever modest and unassuming".
Michael Maddox, a former Packaging News editor himself, hired Goddard in 1979 and said he was "unflappable".
After joining Packaging News in 1979 as a reporter, Goddard quickly moved up the ranks to become an assistant editor before editing the magazine.
In recent years he ran his own public relations agency, which counted leading equipment suppliers including Marden Edwards as clients, and edited Confectionery Production magazine.
Ken Goddard's funeral takes place at 11.30am on Tuesday (24 June) at St Mary's Church in Long Ditton, Surrey.
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Gordon Carson - 20 June 2008
Mike Hall, editor, Retail Packaging, says:
Ever cheerful, rarely moaning, Ken also had a very good sense of humour and rarely unduly criticised companies or individuals. Altogether, Ken was a most pleasant, loyal, and capable person.
Over latter years, he successfully married editorship of Confectionery Production with running his own PR company for packaging suppliers - quite an achievement in these days of pressure, extreme demands and questionable financial rewards.
Ken truly loved the packaging industry and - though largely 'an unsung hero' who didn't seek fame or fortune - was a great ambassador for it. The industry, in turn, responded most favourably to him over many years - and, in all respects, he will be truly and sadly missed.
Gordon Carson - 20 June 2008
Packaging News columnist Des King says:
There are plenty of people in the industry who will have known Ken for a lot longer and far better than I, and with whom I share my regrets at the passing of one of the true 'old guard'.
We first met almost 30 years ago. He had more hair then, and both of us had better teeth. Ken was the industry expertise part of a pitch by a London PR agency to represent a new packaging print show that Reed (then called ITF) was thinking of launching, and I can remember that his depth of knowledge not only unnerved everyone in the event team but also was sufficient to persuade us not to go ahead.
I don’t suppose the agency was too chuffed, but it’s fair to say he probably did the industry a big favour.
That’s something he’s been doing consistently ever since as a fount of knowledge that I and countless others have shamelessly tapped into on umpteen occasions over the past years.
Hopefully, some of it will stay remembered because its reliability and the generosity with which it was always made available is going to be sorely missed.
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