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Poke is a raw fish salad served as an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine, and sometimes as a main course. Heritage Signs & Displays Customer Service representative, Jerry Hyatt had a wonderful experience working with Jerry Turbeville on a group of 10 Poke Bar Dice & Mix custom signs. The signs were made from 0.5” PVC in 3 layers, topped with 3-Dimensional letters.

Poke Bar Dice & Mix is an international franchise with locations across the US and Canada. Our journey with fish began in 1989 when Yanagi Sushi was opened in the heart of Northridge, CA. With years of sushi experience under our belt, we found it was time to expand our horizons and experiment with what we know.

Our mission is to provide fresh, healthy food in a fast and efficient way without sacrificing quality, as well as to expand our vision of Poke Bar through our franchises and Poke Bar Family Members. Learn more at www.ilovepokebar.com

“Jerry and everyone at Poke Bar are exceptional to work with, very structured and organized, they made this project trouble-free” Jerry Hyatt.

40^th Anniversary

January marked the 40^th year Heritage Signs & Displays has been in the printing business. Heritage Signs & Displays was established in 1977 in the Gass family garage in Leonardtown, Louisville, KY by Allen and Margaret as Gass Printing Service. In 1988, following six years of service in the United States Navy, their son Joe, along with his brother Steve, purchased the company and re-branded it as Heritage Signs & Displays.

In 2017, Heritage Signs & Displays expanded the business to include their sister company, Heritage Signs & Displays located in Charlotte, NC and Louisville, KY. Heritage Signs & Displays serves local and national customers with commercial printing and wide format custom signage.

Best of Show

Heritage Signs & Displays joined PICA in 2008. The PICA Foundation was formed as a charitable organization to promote education in the printing industry in North and South Carolina. In 2008, Heritage Signs & Displays began submitting projects and winning awards at the annual banquet. The 2017 PICA awards banquet marked Heritage Signs & Displays with over 40 awards, including the Mac Papers Best of Show.

The PICA Awards attracted more than 670 entries from 53 printing companies, along with more than 170 entries from 7 graphic arts high schools and 6 college graphic arts programs from across the Carolinas.

Heritage Signs & Displays, Inc. won 30 Best of Category Awards, 12 Special Judges Awards and 3 Awards of Excellence. Only one “Best of” may be given in each category. One or more Special Judges Award or Award of Excellence may be given in each category, limited to no more than one third of total entries per category. Heritage Signs & Displays, Inc. also won the Gutenberg Award, Domtar Best Printer’s Self Promotion, Lindenmeyr Munroe Best Presentation Kit, Xerox Best Printing Division A (1 to 9 Employees) & the Mac Papers Best of Show award.

The “Bennies”

The Printing Industry of America (PIA) has announced that Heritage Signs & Displays, Inc. of Charlotte, NC & Louisville, KY is an award winner in the 2017 PIA Awards Competition, winning three “Bennies” and four Certificates of Merit.

The announcement was made September 10, 2017, during the Print 17 Awards Banquet in Chicago, Illinois, with more than 300 industry professionals in attendance. The PIA Awards competition is a national competition with numerous countries represented, including: United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Mexico.

The Benjamin Franklin trophy, aka “Bennie” is awarded to the individual printing category winners. A panel of judges with extensive experience in printing and print production was brought in to examine the submitted work. Each entry was judged on its own merit in a category with similar printed pieces. The judging criteria included: registration, crossovers, clarity and neatness, sharpness of halftones and line drawings, richness and tonal qualities of color, paper and ink selection, ink coverage, difficulty of printing, effective contrast or softness, finishing, bindery, and overall visual impact.

Open House

Heritage Signs & Displays and the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce joined to celebrate the newly renovated facility in Charlotte. The expansion over doubled the footprint of Heritage Signs & Displays and provided their wide format division to upgrade numerous printing and processing equipment and add many new staff members to Heritage Signs & Displays.

Heritage Signs & Displays, a division of Heritage Signs & Displays, is purposely located close to a USPS hub, major logistics providers, and the Charlotte International Airport for expedited logistics. Heritage Signs & Displays can manufacture signs, banners and displays and easily ship to 30 east coast states within two days and overnight to almost any location in the world. The renovated production facility is over 14,000sf of sign manufacturing excellence!

We recently entertained the Charlotte Chamber President, Bob Morgan at our revamped facility. Here is their memo and the video from the tour: http://heritageprintingcharlotte.com/videos/a-passion-for-printing.php

“When Joe Gass and team opened their first Charlotte production facility in 2009, they had no idea how quickly they would grow from a small “mom and pop shop” to an award-winning business that now occupies close to 10,000 square feet near Charlotte’s bustling airport. Chamber CEO and President Bob Morgan took a tour to see the transformation firsthand.”

About Heritage Signs & Displays

Heritage Signs & Displays is a Veteran owned and operated commercial printing and event signage company with an outstanding reputation for producing high quality products with exceptional customer service.