— Interview with Ted Stouch — R&R: Where are you based and how long have you been in business? Ted Stouch: Action Services Group is headquartered in the Philadelphia suburb of Aston, Pennsylvania. Incorporated in 1991, we started as a national lighting and signage company. In 2001 we added our LED retrofit and electrical service lines, focusing our business goals on providing an exceptional customer experience. R&R: What is your title? Stouch: President and CEO. I am the founder of Action Services Group and have been with the company …
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— By Ted Stouch — From service programs to vendor selection, everything you need to know about choosing a national sign service provider. An integral part of any business owner or facilities manager’s job is looking for a national sign service company to maintain their storefront signage. Your signage is a significant part of your brand identity, and it’s how customers, executives and prospects identify your location. Maintaining this signage can become a challenge with all the other tasks associated with running a business. For instance, we’ve all seen …
Cincinnati — LSI Industries Inc., a leading U.S.-based manufacturer of outdoor and indoor lighting and graphics for commercial, industrial and multi-site retail applications, has been selected to produce and implement the interior graphics and signage program at a HEB Grocery Company (H-E-B) Houston location. H-E-B operates 400 stores in Texas and Mexico and has annual sales of $26 billion. The recent grand opening of this H-E-B location is the first in a rollout of “new urban” store designs that H-E-B is initiating. LSI Industries produced all of the store’s interior …
— Interview with Tim Eippert — R&R: Where are you based and how long has the company been in business? Tim Eippert: MC Group was founded in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1953 as MC Sign Company, serving Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania in sign sales, manufacturing, service and installation. At the time, it was a small business operated out of a local garage. R&R: What is your title and how long have you been with the company? Eippert: In 1994 at the age of 24, I purchased MC Sign Company …
Aston, Pa. — Action Services Group has created an online Lighting and LED Product Education Center. This interactive education center offers an in-depth look at lighting applications. Commercial building owners, on average, will spend 22% of their operational costs on power and water. According to the EPA, 35% of a building’s energy costs go toward lighting. If your building is operating old or outdated lighting applications, this percentage could be much higher. With non-LED lighting applications, you have the added operational costs of higher energy consumption, lighting maintenance costs and …
Santee, Calif. — BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS, a leading design/build sign and graphics company, has created a new “Comprehensive Sign Program” developed especially for new urban commercial retail and mixed-use projects. “The new urban realities require a new approach for comprehensive sign programs designed for commercial retail and mixed-use projects. It is no longer enough for a sign program to be only an exposition of static, traditional sign types. Our clients need solutions to the ‘clicks vs. bricks’ challenge in today’s retail environments,” says Scott Blair, founder of Blair Sign Programs. …
— By David Goodwin — Should I retrofit my sign with LED lights? The commercial sign market has experienced a watershed shift in the use of one of a sign’s crucial components. Fluorescent bulbs long were the favored technology for giving signs their glow, but LED bulbs have emerged in recent years as a preferred choice for many sign-makers and their customers. Newly fabricated signs now often are installed with LED bulbs. In addition, shopping center operators and others increasingly are weighing the value of retrofitting their existing …
— By David Goodwin — What is the process and timeline for making a sign? By its nature, the commercial sign-making process does not enjoy a simple timetable. Every sign is different and so are the circumstances that surround its journey from concept to installation. For a large sign, the complete process from initial consultation to installation should take a minimum of 12 weeks. The process takes longer for more complex projects with more extensive sign needs. For instance, a shopping center project with multiple items, such as monument signs, …