SignAge Performs Wrapping For Customers
Mazzei Electric’s car with wrapped messaging by SignAge
NANAIMO – SignAge is making a name for itself as top-notch wrappers.
That’s music to the ears of owner Roger McKinnon, who has watched his company move forward significantly due to their designation as 3-M Certified Installers, meaning they can and do wrap everything from cars and trucks to boats and barges with colourful graphics.
“When some of our customers buy a vehicle, they want it to be covered with graphics, and we do that for them,” says McKinnon. “They can buy a vehicle of any colour, and then have it wrapped in the specific colour and sign layout they want.
“We are wrapping six to eight vehicles per week, and there are only a few preferred wrappers on Vancouver Island.”
SignAge does all types of sings for customers
That’s not all that SignAge does, as they offer home signage, dimensional signs, sign installation, commercial signage and large format printing to clients across Vancouver Island. Their team of five works out of their 103-2046 Boxwood Road location, led by 3-M Installer Blair Howell, who has been managing SignAge for 12 years, and Office Manager Karla Halloran, who has been with the company since 2002.
“We print everything from the smallest vinyl letters to 20-foot illuminated signs,” McKinnon adds. “We design and fabricate large sign projects for commercial locations where high visibility is important to the business, and we have three large-format printers that allow us to print onto almost anything.”
McKinnon is well known throughout Vancouver Island, and has been a leader in the Nanaimo business community for over 40 years, owning and operating several companies. A successful realtor and developer, he founded Leaf Realty, the forerunner of the Nanaimo franchise of RE/MAX, and is a former owner of the Old House Hotel & Spa in Courtenay. He also co-founded McKinnon Hammond Real Estate, a large project marketing company at its time.
McKinnon focuses on central Island builders and developers, a sector in which SignAge holds the lion’s share.
“We basically handle all the signage for the bigger developments in the area, which is perfect,” McKinnon notes. “We closed our Comox Valley location, since Nanaimo is doing so well, and we run up the Valley whenever our customers need us.
“Moving to Boxwood Road (from their former McCullough Road location) was the best move we made, with all of the companies located on the street now.”
SignAge also does a lot of work for Regional Districts, cities and municipalities on the Island.
McKinnon says the key to the company’s success has been its focus on the customer.
“Our clients come first,” he notes. “We listen to them, and they make suggestions to us sometimes and we do that, too. Our products are very high quality, and we get them out on time, and save them money.”
