A Short History of Rapid Signs, Inc. - The Southeast's Largest Wholesale Political Sign Manufacturer

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COMPANY HISTORY
Rapid Signs started small as a quick vinyl sign shop in 1991. Shortly thereafter we began screen printing T-Shirts, Signs, Cups, and almost anything else that would lay still. As time progressed, we found our niche in printing on flat substrates, and determined that specialization was the most efficient way to produce and sell our product. In 1995, we sold all of the textile presses and totally dedicated the business to screen printing on corrugated plastic. We have printed nothing but corrugated plastic and some flat metal stock since, and our growth has been phenomenal.

FACILITIES HISTORY

The company started in a corner of an industrial tool supply store as a quick vinyl sign shop. After a couple of successful years, we moved to a 2500 sq foot building next to the owner's home in Decatur, AL. At this time, we printed using evaporative ink, one small automatic press, and used a primitive manual press for large format printing. With growth came 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 drying unit and another larger automatic press. We also developed our own high-speed press for printing large format signs. Around '98, our Internet business took off and sales began to increase exponentially. This forced us to move temporarily to a rented, 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
As stated previously, we occupy a 20,000 square foot manufacturing facility with plans to expand soon. During the peak season, we employ two full production shifts. We have become one of the largest corrugated 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 dealer network, we have recently converted to a totally wholesale operation. No longer do our dealers have to compete with our low prices and great service, they only benefit from them.

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