Signworks expands business
09.02.10
The Lexington sign fabrication and banner printing business, started in 1991 by Jeff and Julie Cooper, recently expanded its building on Marco Boulevard by 3,000 square feet and installed one of the largest commercially available flatbed printers on site, the Hewlett-Packard FB950.
"We researched the available printers based on the kind of jobs we were doing, and installing this flatbed more than triples our printing capacity," said Jeff Cooper, vice president.
Fitting a 1-ton, 14-foot wide printer into the existing space would have been almost impossible, so an addition was added to the back side of the facility, creating a 3,000-square-foot room built entirely around digital print production.
Cooper said the investment in the new flatbed printer was made after Signworks signed a contract to produce the sign packages for a fast-expanding national bank, Woodforest Bank, which is the bank inside Walmart stores around the country. Signworks will produce about 150 signs for the bank this year.
Source: Lexington Dispatch
Project Gold: A patriot and his country
09.02.10
Teenage
Project Gold: A patriot and his country
Dwayne Patterson University of Technology
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
On the evening of January 25th, The Jamaica Tourist Board hosted the likes of the Jennifer Grffiths permanent secretary of the Ministry of Tourism;Earl Patrick the executive director of the Tourism Product Development Company; representatives from the Tourism Enhancement Fund and Prime Minister Bruce Golding. The real guests for the evening though were the representatives of Jamaica's media and hotel industries. The warm and elegantly prepared venue chosen for this gathering was the Devonshire restaurant on the grounds of Devon House. What was the focus for the evening? The answer was Jamaica being endorsed and showcased by one of our greatest icons today, Usain 'Lightning' Bolt.
The JTB has developed an ad-campaign around Usain, hoping to capitalise on the international fame our athlete has achieved. The campaign takes the form of three commercials, which will be distributed abroad, showing the athlete training and running through different endemic settings in Jamaica. Before the 3 commercials were played we saw a behind the scenes video capturing the production process, some brief stories from Bolt's past and bit more focus on the locations they visited for shoots. Truly one of the main focuses of these commercials is what a beautiful country Jamaica is. The commercials are comically named: SPEED, STOP and POSE. The commercials were all stunning though the launch's favourite was definitely STOP. While training Usain has to stop to see every amazing site that he comes upon to which he can only say "Any other island, I'd probably be a marathon runner". We all found it more than amusing.
Source: Jamaica Observer
