Profile: Justin Hare

The way that I found my way into the sign business doesn’t make a very interesting story. A couple months after I got married I found myself laid off from a job I’d had for quite a while. I decided to look for something new in a different field where I could use my creative skills. That landed me in a sign shop in an entry level job. A year later I moved to a larger shop, Fuller Signs.

I worked with Dan Fuller for about nine years. He had a full-service sign shop, doing everything from vinyl signs to illuminated signs. Dan had taken the business over from his father, who started it in 1948, so it had quite a history. I learned a lot, and my father John and I ended up buying the business from him in 2012.