February 2017 | Business View Magazine

106 107 SpeedPro Imaging began in 1992 as Speed- Pro Signs, a Canadian sign-production busi- ness founded by Blair Gran, who came from a sign-making family in British Columbia.While his family’s business focused on hand-painted signs, he saw the opportunity to adapt to new technologies, focusing his business on vinyl cut lettering and other contemporary sign making techniques. He was so successful that he began franchising the SpeedPro concept in 1996. The company grew to 30 loca- tions across Canada and in 2001, the intersection of desktop com- puters, large format printing, and the ability to produce full-color images, led Gran to shift away from sign making and toward large format imaging services. He changed the firm’s name to SpeedPro Imaging SpeedPro Imaging The leader in large format imagery