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The Print Shop That Cost $3,500 to Get Back
Pete Petroff sold his Alabama print shop when illness demanded his attention. Two years later, he bought the diminished business back for $3,500 - and discovered what, exactly, the founder had been doing all along.
MS-Group: the family business that put its craft on the map
A Cardiff memorial business grew into a group that makes headstones, wraps vehicles and helps visitors find their way. The connection is closer than it looks.
Gatorwraps puts your next customer in the next lane
A wrapped Cadillac helped land a submarine job. Behind Gatorwraps’ more ordinary vehicles is an equally useful idea: make the journeys a business already takes do some of its advertising.
The family business behind the photo op
Creative Graphic Services grew from automotive customization into the scenery of major live events. Its real specialty is making a complicated physical world look ready for the camera.
SignPro’s and the distance between a logo and a wall
A sign looks like a design problem until somebody has to build it, get it approved, and put it up. Los Angeles sign company SignPro’s puts those jobs in the same offer.
Graphics360 and the price of “I need it today”
A family-owned Santa Ana print shop sells business cards, banners, and vehicle wraps. Its more revealing product is the human attention between an uploaded file and a very public mistake.
Minuteman Press and the business of being nearby
In Orange, California, a print shop sells something a shopping cart cannot specify: help with the deadline. Its story connects a local owner to a franchise built by questioning where a printer’s job ends.
P5 Graphics & Displays gives the sales pitch a place to stand
The California printer builds the objects that carry a brand: cosmetics counters, retail fixtures, signs and displays. Its useful trick is bringing the artwork and the engineering into the same conversation.
APG puts your business on paper. And on the truck.
From business cards to vehicle wraps, Advanced Printing & Graphics turns a company’s identity into things people can hold, wear and spot across the street. Its pitch is continuity: one creative idea, carried through production.
Protech Graphics makes the factory floor legible
Control panels, nylon parts, truck graphics and school shirts: this Michigan shop puts design to work on objects that have somewhere to be.
Sign Plus and the art of being found
On Pioneer Boulevard, a new business can arrive inside an old sign. The Artesia sign shop’s recorded projects show the practical work of giving a storefront a readable identity.
RSM Design makes places worth finding
A parking garage can borrow the swagger of a concert poster. A former naval base can keep its bearings. RSM Design builds the visual clues that help a place make sense.
The Factory Behind the Internet's Oddly Specific Orders
A missing car-wash sign became a portfolio of 12 brands and more than 10,000 customizable products. Group Bayport's real product is the machinery that turns one-off requests into repeatable ecommerce.
Signarama
Signarama is the world's largest sign and graphics franchise, founded in 1986 by Ray and Roy Titus and now operating hundreds of independently owned stores across more than a dozen countries. Part of the United Franchise Group, Signarama turns local sign shops into full-service visual-communications businesses producing everything from banners and channel letters to vehicle wraps, trade-show displays, and ADA-compliant braille signage. Its model packages equipment, training, and a recognized brand so first-time owners can serve other local businesses that need to be seen.