February 2017 | Business View Magazine

108 109 SpeedPro Imaging SpeedPro Imaging and began reaching out to whole new sectors of the marketplace that had never had access to high-quality, large format printing, before. In 2002, the company began franchising in the United States. SpeedPro Imaging provides products and services to a wide va- riety of business and events. Some of its offerings include: Banners, Decals,Digital Signage,Directional Signage, Elevator Wraps, Event Graphics, Event Tents, Flags, Fleet Wraps, Floor Graphics, Indoor Sig- nage,Outdoor Signage, Point of Purchase Displays, Retractors, Signs & Graphics,Table Coverings &Table Toppers,Trade ShowDisplays,Vehicle Wraps,Wall Murals, andWindowGraphics. In 2014, the SpeedPro brand was purchased by a group led by Boris Katsnelson, the company’s current President and CEO.Today, SpeedPro Imaging has 130 franchises in 31 U.S. states, as well as an affiliate in Canada that operates under the SpeedPro Imaging brand with over 50 units. “We’re in 100 percent of the top mar- kets in the country, and still have a lot of room to grow,” Katsnelson says. “We think that this brand can hold 300 units or more.” Katsnelson has held true to the company’s business model by continuing to concentrate solely on the Business-to-Business market,while helping its franchise units become virtual part- ners to the clients that they serve.“We’re an inch wide and a mile deep,”he states,“meaning we’re focused in this niche market where we do digital printing for our customers–anything for that business.We’re all B2B–ad agencies,marketing firms, businesses that constantly need work and they’re looking for a partner.Typically, 80-plus per- cent of our businesses are repeat customers.” AT A GLANCE SpeedPro Imaging WHAT: A national leader in large format imagery WHERE: Centennial, Colorado WEBSITE: www.speedpro.com, www.speedprofranchising.com