Monday, March 23, 2009


Short and to the Point. I am humbled by the actions of the Guardians of Sign Craft Industries.


This past weekend, through our partnership with Hokanson Companies, Inc, we completed the exterior conversion of 65 Charter One branches to Old National Bank (ONB). This task was completed in just over 40 days. This entailed designing, permitting, fabricating and installing 77 sets of ONB channel letters within this time frame and still service our numerous other customers.


This feat necessitated the unselfish dedication of each and every Guardian in our organization. Our channel letter department was amazing in their ability to uphold our high standards for quality while at the same time turning up the volume on quantity. In addition, the custom fabricators stepped up and assisted in the fabrication of the numerous wireways. On the design and project management fronts, our staff worked diligently to get the renderings and permits through the system and finally, I can not say enough about our installation teams who worked third shift to get the signage installed.


The crescendo was this past weekend when 9 interior and 8 exterior teams touched each and every one of the 65 branches and removed banners over the newly installed exterior ONB signs and installed over 100 ONB interior banners.


It is absolutely amazing what we can accomplish together. I can not possibly thank our staff

enough for the long hours and dedication. It was truly appreciated. I am confident that we pulled off what others only dream of.