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We’ve been writing about Watchfire for quite a while but #2013SignExpo gave us our first chance to meet Dave Warns, vice-president, on premise sales, in person. “Watchfire was founded 81 years ago, and we’ve been into LEDs since 1996,” he said. “We have two arms: on-premise signage and outdoor.” The sign company is proud that […]

Owner/founder Pascal Cübb posted this kryptic message on his Facebook page on Monday: After more than 9 years working and fighting hard, with my Team, sadly I have to give up now. I have bet « All In »… I loose everything… That’s the rules for entrepreneur. I would like to say a special Thanks […]

We noticed that many of the visitors to the #2013SignExpo’s Digital Zone last week stemmed from South America, Central America and Asia. We spoke to a few of the many visitors to see why they made their way to the sector identified by the green rug. Ricardo Escoto of Rentable, a billboard company is Mexico, […]

Being AIM-quoted, MediaZest (who we haven’t heard from in a long time) has had to publicly confirm a major contract win. It’s with an, as yet, unnamed party, and is expected to generate more than GBP 1 million in revenues over the next 18 months. Non-executive chairman Lance O’Neill was quoted as saying “This is […]

It was interesting to talk to the various exhibitors in the Digital Zone at #2013SignExpo, to see why they decided to exhibit, what they were showing, what kind of a reaction they were getting, and what they expected. Here are some of the words of exhibitors about which we haven’t already written in the last […]

Much has been made of the upending of media as we used to know it. Two views have personally piqued my interest: the multi-screen scenario that is often discussed vis-à-vis the interplay between TV, PCs, tablets and mobile phones; and the Paid-Owned-Earned (POE) perspective often spoken of, in relation to digital media. While the media industry and its thought leaders have been spot on […]

We ran into Clive Roux, CEO of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, over a quick lunch at 2013SignExpo and asked what his interest was in this show, since we haven’t noticed any great influx of designers trotting out their interest and talents at other shows we cover extensively. However, it seems that the design […]

Vantage, located in Corona, California, not only impressed us at #2013SignExpo but, when news of SM Infinity, its software system’s capabilities, became known, there were a lot of competitors warily circling its impressive booth in #2013SignExpo‘s Digital Zone. “This is our ‘coming out’,” James Anderson of Vantage’s regional sales, told us. “We were a little […]

Following the news at #2013SignExpo that Signagelive had signed on as a Samsung and N. Glantz & Son partner in the FASTSIGNS/N. Glantz/Samsung deal, people were wondering where Scala, a Samsung partner, fits in the deal, as it has long been FASTSIGNS partner. ”No worres, FASTSIGNS has assured us that we are definitely its partner, […]

At the Supervisory Board meeting on April 5, Jean-Claude Decaux, Founder of JCDecaux. announced to the members of the board that he would not seek the renewal of his membership of the Supervisory Board when his current term expires at the end of the combined Annual General Meeting of shareholders of 15 May 2013. Aged […]