History of Rapid Signs - How we became one of the Largest Political Sign Printers in the South

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COMPANY HISTORY

Rapid Signs started small as a quick sign and vinyl shop in 1991. Shortly after that we began screen printing t-shirts, signs, cups, almost anything that would lay still. As time progressed, we found our niche in printing on flat corrugated substrates, and determined that specialization was the most efficient way to produce and sell our products and services. In 1995, we sold the textile presses and streamlined our business to screen printing on corrugated plastic. Since then we have sold nothing but corrugated plastic yard signs and wire stands.

FACILITIES HISTORY

The company started in a corner of an industrial tool supply store as a quick sign shop. After a couple of successful years, we moved to a 2500 sq foot building next to the owner's home in Decatur, Alabama. At this time, we printed using evaporative inks, one small automatic press, and used a primitive manual press for large format printing. With our amazing growth came the need for better technology and In 1996, we decided to convert to UV cured ink and thus had to increase that building's size to 5,000 square feet to accomadate the new UV curing unit and another larger automatic press. We also developed our own high-speed press for printing large format political signs. Around 1998, our Internet business took off and sales began to increase exponentially. This forced us to temporarily rent a larger building inside the city of Decatur. Our plans are always to keep fixed costs to a minimum, so the idea to build our own full scale custom built facility began soon thereafter. In 2001 we completed the first 10,000 square foot phase of our current manufacturing facility in Athens Alabama. We have since doubled our building size to 20,000 square feet plus office space. We have a very large printing capacity, and are ever expanding this capacity to meet production needs.

CURRENT STATE OF THE COMPANY

We currently occupy a 26,000 square foot manufacturing facility with four Ultraviolet curing units and eight automatic printing presses. During the peak season, we employ two full production shifts. We have become one of the largest corrugated yard sign printers in the country. Our rapid growth can be attributed primarily to our presence on the Internet and our extensive network of dealers and resellers. Furthermore, many of our dealers maintain web sites that have lead to thousands of orders over the past several years. Due to developing such a great sign dealer network, we run a totally wholesale operation. Our yard sign dealers do not have to compete with our prices.

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