The annual State of the Industry Report, with regard to internally illuminated signs (cabinet signs, channel letters, outline lighting, etc.), conducted by Signs of the Times magazine, showed positive results for 2014 and a prediction of continued growth for 2015. 80% of the respondents said their sales volume increased from 2013 to 2014. Less than 7% […]
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Black Enterprise Magazine Names DC Fastsigns(R) Franchise of the Year
Black Enterprise magazine named FASTSIGNS® of Washington, D.C., its Franchise Company of the Year at its 2016 Entrepreneurs Summit held in Miami Beach, Florida. The three-year-old award was granted to the sign business owned and operated by Howard James since 2007. His sales rank in the top 15% of the more than 600 FASTSIGNS franchises […]
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Gemini Grants $100,000 Scholarships to Incoming Univ. of Minnesota and Michigan Students
Gemini Inc. (Cannon Falls, MN) has awarded two $100,000 Ross Wagner Engineering Scholarships. The four-year scholarships will go to Matt Moskal, a senior at Cannon Falls High School, who will attend the Univ. of Minnesota in the fall of 2016. Bjorn Pearson, also a Cannon Falls senior, will attend the Univ. of Michigan. For the […]
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Can a $500 Sign Generate $1.9 Million in Additional Revenue for a Health Clinic?
A Sarasota, Florida health-care clinic had a great suburban location, demographically. However, due to its location at the end of a two-story complex surrounded by oak trees, its fascia signage simply wasn’t visible from the interstate (0.2 miles away) or the four-lane frontage road with a median. The owner had a dozen other clinics, so […]
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ISA Sign Expo Attendance is Second Highest Ever
The International Sign Association Sign Expo, held April 21-23, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, attracted more than 20,000 attendees, the association reports, which makes it the second-largest show in ISA history, and the largest ever held in Orlando. For nearly two decades, the Sign Expo has alternated between Orlando and Las Vegas, and the latter show […]
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Route 66 Neon Project in Tulsa Seeks Donation “Votes”
The Route 66 Development Group (Tulsa, OK) has launched a project to erect a double-faced, 18 x 20-ft. neon sign in Tulsa on Route 66, and it wants people to vote for one of two designs by making a donation at www.route66dg.com. Each sign uses the famous song lyrics, “Get your kicks on Route 66” […]
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FASI Board Member Prof. Alan Weinstein Addresses APA Conference about Reed v. Gilbert
Law professor Alan Weinstein, a board member of the newly formed Foundation for the Advancement of the Sign Industry, was one of three people associated with sign-industry groups who spoke at a session on sign regulation at the American Planning Association annual conference, April 4, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona. Speakers at the session, entitled “Regulating […]
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Texas A&M Study Shows No Correlation Between EMCs and Traffic Accidents
In 2012, Texas A&M University’s Texas Transportation Institute conducted a study to see if electronic message centers (EMCs) cause traffic accidents. Research included data from the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) own Highway Safety Information System (HSIS), a comprehensive database of traffic-accident records from several states. Researchers identified 135 cites in which EMCs had recently been […]
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Do Signs Help First-time Customers Find Stores?
Signtronix is a California-based sign manufacturer that creates signs for small independent businesses nationwide. From 1996 through 2011, it asked its customers (retailers) to ask their first-time customers (shoppers) how they first found out about their store. Over this 14-year period, 46% of these 13,040 first-time patrons said they’d heard about the retailer because of […]
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The New Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education
Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education (AACSRE) launches website.
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