5 things to know

Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. Hamilton-based Sunset Neon recently began restoring Toronto’s famous Sam the Record Man signage, which will have a new home later this year at 277 Victoria Street, overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square.

2. Image-X of Saint-Laurent, Que., has become the first print service provider (PSP) in Canada to install the Jeti Mira 2716 HS ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) light-emitting diode (LED) wide-format printer, manufactured by Agfa Graphics in Mississauga, Ont.

3. Cadillac Fairview (CF) has completed a $21-million revitalization of the Shops at Don Mills, one of its retail properties in Toronto, with new wayfinding elements, digital signage and entry identification pylons.

4. La Roche-Posay, a division of L’Oreal Canada, recently used Zoom Media Group’s out-of-home (OOH) advertising faces in fitness clubs in and near Vancouver and Toronto to both promote and provide samples of its Lipikar body lotion.

5. Sign, graphics and visual communications companies are well-positioned to reap the benefits of general economic growth, according to the International Sign Association’s (ISA’s) latest quarterly report.