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With the recent record setting sell-out for the Garth Brooks concert slated for Thursday July 12, 2012 during this years Calgary Stampede, I am again reminded how much emphasis is being placed on this years events (by the way, the concert sold out in a record setting 58 seconds!). 2012 marks the 100th anniversary for the Calgary Stampede and as such has garnered huge publicity. It’s got to be pretty big to be able to have an entertainer such as Garth Brooks to perform when he is essentially retired, to come to our little corner of the world to perform.

The Calgary Stampede is a world renowned event which takes place every year and draws people from around the world to experience what we like to claim as “The Greatest Show on Earth”. From the thrill of the chuckwagon races to the excitement on the midway, there is nothing else in the world that compares.

Canadians and especially we Calgarians, are known for our hospitality and as such we welcome all those planning to visit our fine city and know you’ll have an experience like no other.

Carmanah Signs in conjunction with a local design firm have recently revamped a display set up for arrival passengers at the Calgary International Airport. The display consists of numerous EvenLit™ LED illuminated light panels each with a high quality digitally printed image. The images depict not only the history of the Calgary Stampede, but also include images of what our fine city looked like during that time. The images are quite exceptional in quality and subject matter, it’s definitely worth a trip to view them.

Carmanah Signs was chosen as a supplier based on our superior LED illuminated light panel quality and how well they perform. When dealing with larger LED illuminated light panels, even illumination across the entire surface can be a concern. Through Carmanah’s commitment to quality and product development, we are able to supply consumers a product which meets and usually exceeds their expectations.

We hope to see you if you plan on visiting our fair city for the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede and if not this year any year will do. It’s always a hoot!

Happy Stampeding and a great big YAHOO from all of us here at Carmanah Signs.

Spring is in the air and summer is just around the corner:  it’s time to fill one of Carmanah’s custom LED illuminated ice tubs with ice and stock it with your favorite beverage.

The beverage and event marketing campaigns must be ramping up as we have experienced a seasonal resurgence of interest in our acrylic LED illuminated edge lit beverage tubs.  Past sales experience has shown that this unique product is effective and functional means for displaying brand logos at events, lending a classy vibe to an experience, while reinforcing the visual appeal of the beverage logo. The Carmanah Ice Tub, as it is sometimes referred to, is often adopted by beverage producing clients throughout North America and parts of South America not just for event marketing but also for their brand’s distributor and direct-to-consumer catalogues.

Besides the beer industry, our LED-lit beverage tub has also been successfully used by manufacturers of energy drinks, champagne and other alcohol and non-alcoholic beverage brands for tradeshows, event sponsorships, trade rewards and sales rewards. The tubs have also become a fixture in top level bars, restaurants and night clubs. We occasionally run into one in our social lives and work lives in both the USA and Canada.

The Carmanah ice tub can be used indoors and outdoors. To ensure the tubs meet or exceed any and all local food safety standards, Carmanah uses only food service grade plastic inserts as a container to store the beverages and the ice.  This extra investment has been a huge factor in this products success with the larger brands, since they want to ensure the product meets industry standard for a hygienic environment for their clients and customers – this feature, along with top grade LED illumination, surpasses others on the market.

Enjoy your spring and summer, and keep those drinks cool and chilled with a custom designed Carmanah ice tub!

 

We’re Famous! Well sort of…Carmanah Signs was contacted directly by Fox Studios of Los Angeles, California to provide LED illuminated light panels to be used as props on their current hit TV show “Bones”.

Generally Carmanah’s EvenLit™ LED Light Panels have been used by major brands, retailers, casinos, lottery organizations, and others, as permanent promotional fixtures in their retail settings. Typically, they are wall mounted, with eye-catching digitally printed designs that are brilliantly lit from behind, however the creative folks at Fox Studios are using the light panels in a horizontal fashion as an illumination source on the set of the forensic lab. It will be really cool to see the LED-lit effect when we finally get to watch the latest episode on TV.

For almost 20 years, Carmanah Signs has been a provider of LED illuminated signage to countless brands, retailers, lotteries and casinos, and  this is not the first time that Carmanah’s LED illuminated signage technology has been called to action  in front of the camera.

A few years ago, the set designers from the show “Las Vegas”, produced by NBC Studios, used Carmanah LED illuminated Table Game signs on their casino floor set. Due to Carmanah’s track record as the major supplier of Table Games and Table Limit signs to the casino and gaming industry, the designers chose Carmanah to provide all the set’s table game floor signage. The designers presumably felt that choosing Carmanah’s casino sign products would add to the authenticity and realism of the set.

We thank Fox Studios for their business and the opportunity to bask in the glow of a tiny bit of Hollywood glamour.  As for our regular retail environment customers, Carmanah’s line of LED illuminated EvenLit™ Light Panels will continue to offer the features they have come to value: superior illumination, spread evenly across the entire surface, an elegant housing and the long life and low energy consumption of high quality LEDs, all in a range of standard and custom sizes.

 

Well it’s that time of year again where thoughts of warmer weather start to take over as our disdain for winter has fully set in. Being cooped up in our homes has probably driven more than a few of us around the bend.  A mark that spring is on its way is the arrival of the yearly Calgary Home & Garden show held February 23 through to the 26 of 2012 at the centrally located BMO Centre of Calgary Stampede grounds (which coincidently is marking it’s 100th Anniversary this year). It should be a spectacular event for sure.

Back to the Home and Garden show… This is one of the major events that are geared towards those who may be in the market to renovate and / or decorate their home sweet home. With the ever rising cost of purchasing a new home, Calgary has seen a significant increase in the number of people reinvesting in their current homes by renovating and or updating their décor to better suit the current style trends.

The sheer number of exhibitors listed for this show indicates how large this market is and that if you are looking for something for your home, you are bound to find it here. As a part of the show, well known celebrities such as HGTV’s renovation pro Bryan Baeumler and design experts Rosalyn Lazaruk and Alykhan Velji, to name a few, will be sharing their wealth of knowledge to those attending the show.

Our business, AddressLighting.com, will be displaying our LED-lit address signs and all of the available options at the show (booth # 2114), as well as giving people attending the show the opportunity to see how easy it is to create their own personalized address sign through our website (www.addresslighting.com). Staff will be on hand during the entire show to answer all questions you may have regarding our signs and how to order them.

Since its debut, www.addresslighting.com has been a premium provider of LED illuminated home address signs. Through extensive product development, we have an efficient and elegant means of displaying your address. Our product has gone through numerous tests that has allowed it to be labeled “IP33” certified, which in a nutshell infers that our sign has passed rigorous tests based on its ability to resist water infiltration.

Our custom home address signs not only provide home owners with an elegant way of illuminating their street address, they also provide invaluable added visibility to emergency crews should there ever be a need for them. Being that the address signs are illuminated with highly efficient LEDs, the yearly cost to operate the sign are extremely low and the sign requires no maintenance.

Those that can’t wait for the Home & Garden show to try out the simplicity of creating and ordering their own personal address sign can visit our website at www.addresslighting.com. Peruse our website and immediately you’ll see how simple it is to go from address sign creation to order submission with only a couple of clicks. Our website allows customers the ability to design an address sign that suits their distinctive tastes by giving them choices such as shape, colour, font style, decorative elements as well as a choice in decorative address sign cap colour and shape. All address signs are made to order and come with a UV cured digitally printed design you created yourself. The possibilities are endless (well, almost).

Please visit us at booth #2114 during the Home & Garden show or go to our website and see for yourself how with a couple of clicks, you can create your own personally customized address sign.

We can’t wait to serve you!

Categories : General

Due to recent intra-state changes within the US lottery industry, each US state lottery corporation is no longer bound to supporting just one of the national Lotto games, Mega Millions or Powerball.  Now that each state can offer both Mega Millions and Powerball, there is an opportunity to increase their contributions to Good Causes within the communities in their jurisdictions.

Carmanah Signs has played a role in helping lottery corporations in many US states introduce and promote the second national lotto jackpot game by providing attractive LED illuminated jackpot signs that instantaneously update the jackpot values for each game they promote. These wirelessly-updated jackpot signs are frequently put in the retailer window and are a bright, highly visible call to action to lapsed or occasional lotto players.

Carmanah’s sign designs allow a lottery the utmost in flexibility by having jackpot sign configurations that include single, double and triple formats with the value added feature of being able to able to add-on any one of those formats at a future date. When a customer wants to add an additional jackpot to an existing Carmanah jackpot sign that is already in the field, the end result is a seamless integration of the new and existing sign into one integrated sign.

A major US lottery customer has recently deployed a second modular single jackpot sign to ‘mate’ with the current single jackpot sign in the retail field. The modular connecting hardware is designed for both form and function so that the end result is an esthetically pleasing and completely functional jackpot sign.

While they originally only had PowerBall, the lottery ultimately has been able to promote it and the newly launched Mega Millions game effectively in the retail setting, all the while being able to continue the original look and feel of an original double jackpot sign. Carmanah Signs greatly appreciates the opportunity to help our Lottery customers promote and grow their sales by providing them highly efficient LED illuminated signage.

Categories : General, Lottery News