Heritage began in 1977 with a simple commitment: serve people with integrity, deliver work with excellence, and build relationships that last.
What started as a small quick printing business has grown into Heritage Signs & Displays, a veteran-owned and family-led company providing turnkey branding solutions for workplace interiors and event environments. Today, our Raleigh office proudly serves Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Morrisville, and the Research Triangle as an important part of Heritage’s continued regional growth.
The Triangle is an important chapter in the Heritage story. It is a region shaped by innovation, education, healthcare, technology, research, entrepreneurship, and steady growth. As organizations throughout the area expand their workplaces, campuses, offices, healthcare environments, nonprofit spaces, venues, and public-facing interiors, Heritage provides the experience, project management, environmental graphic design support, production capability, fabrication, and installation by Heritage team members needed to bring branded spaces to life.
Nearly five decades after our founding, our purpose remains the same: honor God by serving our clients, employees, vendors, and communities with excellence, integrity, and genuine care.
Heritage’s story began in commercial printing, where deadlines, details, accuracy, and service mattered every day. That foundation shaped the way we still approach projects today. Over time, many of the same organizations that trusted Heritage with their printed materials began asking us to help with larger visual branding needs. They needed signs, displays, graphics, and branded interior solutions that could communicate who they were, guide people through their spaces, recognize achievements, and create a stronger experience for employees, visitors, members, donors, students, patients, attendees, and stakeholders.
Those opportunities helped Heritage grow from a printing company into a specialized provider of custom signs, environmental graphics, workplace branding, branded interiors, custom displays, and event environment solutions. Beginning in 2009, that transition became a more intentional part of Heritage’s future. While our capabilities have expanded, the discipline we learned in printing remains part of our culture: listen carefully, manage details, meet deadlines, communicate clearly, and do what we promised.
Heritage has always been shaped by people more than products. Our leadership story includes military service, family ownership, faith, perseverance, and a long-term commitment to building a company that serves others well. Those influences continue to guide the way Heritage operates today.
As a veteran-led company, we value discipline, accountability, teamwork, preparation, and follow-through. Joe Gass joined Heritage in 1988 after completing six years of service in the United States Navy, and that experience helped shape his approach to leadership, responsibility, and service.
As a family-led company, we believe relationships matter, culture matters, and long-term trust is more valuable than short-term gain.
As a company guided by faith and stewardship, we believe our work should reflect humility, integrity, and care for the people we serve. These values are not slogans. They influence how we lead our team, communicate with clients, resolve challenges, and approach every project entrusted to us.
The Research Triangle has become one of Heritage’s most important markets and an important part of the company’s regional expansion.
Heritage launched in the Triangle in April 2021, serving organizations throughout Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and surrounding communities with custom interior signage, branded visual solutions, workplace graphics, and event environment support. As demand grew across the region, Heritage continued building relationships with organizations shaped by education, healthcare, research, technology, nonprofits, government agencies, corporate workplaces, and growing professional communities.
In July 2023, Heritage strengthened its commitment to the Research Triangle by opening its Raleigh office at 7424 Chapel Hill Road and establishing a dedicated local team. That local investment gave Triangle-area clients a more direct connection to Heritage’s project management, environmental graphic design support, production, fabrication, and installation by Heritage team members while improving responsiveness, coordination, and consistency.
Danielle Manry leads Heritage’s local operations in the Triangle, helping support client relationships and project coordination throughout Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Morrisville, and surrounding Research Triangle communities. Her local leadership is supported by Heritage’s broader regional resources across the Carolinas and Mid-Atlantic.
The Triangle’s continued growth has created a strong need for branded interiors that are thoughtful, professional, functional, and built to support long-term organizational goals. Whether we are supporting a single workplace transformation, a donor recognition display, a branded office interior, a campus graphics program, an event environment, or a larger organization with multiple spaces, our goal is to make the process organized, dependable, and effective from beginning to end.
Our HeritageCustomSigns.com website reflects Heritage’s continued commitment to serving growing organizations across Raleigh and the Research Triangle, Richmond and Central Virginia, Hampton Roads, Greensboro and the Piedmont Triad, Greenville and Upstate South Carolina, Columbia and the South Carolina Midlands, and surrounding business communities.
In Virginia, the Richmond office supports clients throughout Richmond, Central Virginia, Hampton Roads, and surrounding communities. That local presence helps organizations connect with Heritage for site surveys, field verification, installation planning, and installation by Heritage team members for branded workplace interiors, environmental graphics, custom signs, displays, and interior branding solutions.
In North Carolina, the Greensboro office strengthens Heritage’s ability to serve Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, and the broader Piedmont Triad with local site survey support, field verification, and installation by experienced Heritage team members. Heritage also supports organizations throughout Greenville, Upstate South Carolina, Columbia, and the South Carolina Midlands through coordinated support from the Carolinas team and Heritage’s Charlotte regional production facility.
Behind these local teams, Heritage’s production-based project management model helps ensure that signs, graphics, and displays are produced accurately to client needs before being delivered for local installation. By coordinating site surveys, environmental graphic design, project management, production, fabrication, and installation through Heritage team members and facilities, we are able to maintain greater control, consistency, and accountability throughout the process. This connected approach helps clients move from initial vision to finished branded environment with greater confidence.
Heritage’s regional approach has grown from a simple belief: clients are best served when local relationships are supported by coordinated company-wide resources.
For Raleigh and Research Triangle clients, local presence matters. Workplace interiors, wall graphics, dimensional lettering, lobby signs, donor recognition displays, window graphics, wayfinding elements, and branded environments depend on accurate site conditions, practical installation planning, clear communication, and people who understand the local market.
Our clients appreciate working with team members who are close enough to support real project needs while also benefiting from the experience, production capabilities, project management, and installation resources of a coordinated regional organization. Our headquarters in Charlotte supports company-wide leadership, production, administration, and operational strength. Our Raleigh office serves the Research Triangle with local responsiveness and market understanding. Our Washington, DC-area facilities support clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic.
Additional Heritage offices throughout the region allow us to serve growing organizations with a balance of proximity, consistency, and accountability. Whether a project involves one office, several locations across North Carolina, or coordinated work extending from Maryland to the Carolinas, Heritage provides one connected team focused on delivering a dependable experience.
That local-first, regionally supported approach has become one of the defining characteristics of Heritage. We are large enough to manage complex branding initiatives across multiple locations, yet personal enough to remain relationship-driven, accessible, and accountable to the clients we serve.
Heritage has never measured success only by revenue, locations, equipment, or completed projects. We measure success by confidence earned over time. Many of our strongest client relationships began with one project and grew because clients experienced a team that listened, followed through, solved problems, and cared about the outcome. That relationship-driven approach has allowed Heritage to grow steadily while continuing to invest in people, capabilities, technology, facilities, and leadership.
As our clients expanded, Heritage expanded with them. New offices, new capabilities, and new services were added not simply to become larger, but to serve organizations more effectively and responsibly. That steady growth has shaped Heritage into a company capable of supporting local projects in the Research Triangle while also helping clients manage larger branding initiatives across multiple offices, campuses, workplace interiors, venues, and event environments.
The finished signs, displays, and graphics our clients see are only part of what Heritage delivers. Behind every successful project is a team working to understand the client’s goals, space, culture, timeline, brand standards, audience, and vision. We believe successful branded environments begin with listening. From there, thoughtful planning, clear communication, environmental graphic design, careful production, fabrication, and installation by Heritage team members help turn an idea into a finished environment that reflects the organization it serves.
Every organization has its own story, mission, audience, and priorities. Understanding those details allows us to recommend visual branding solutions that strengthen brand identity, improve navigation, celebrate history, recognize people, communicate values, support events, and create spaces that feel intentional and meaningful. That is why we approach each project as more than a transaction. We see it as an opportunity to serve well, solve thoughtfully, create with purpose, and earn lasting trust.
As Heritage approaches its 50th anniversary in 2027, we remain grateful for the clients, employees, families, vendors, and communities that have become part of our story. We are continuing to invest in our people, strengthen our regional presence, expand our capabilities, and prepare the next generation of leadership to build upon the foundation established in 1977. We are thankful for every organization that has trusted Heritage with its brand, workplace, office, campus, venue, or event environment. Your trust has shaped our story, and we look forward to continuing to serve with humility, care, and commitment for many years to come.
The best next step is to complete the Get Started Now form and share your project goals, timeline, location, space details, photos, files, or requirements. A Heritage team member will review your submission, help determine the right next step, and connect you with the appropriate support for your workplace interior, branded environment, custom display, or event graphics project.
