Sikeston sign business opens Cape location

Canedy Sign of Sikeston, Mo., is now up and running at the former General Sign location in Cape Girardeau. General Sign closed in June after 70 years in business, leaving 31 people out of work.

Since Canedy Sign purchased the property at 4857 Nash Road it has also hired four former General Sign employees, said Doug Lands of Canedy Sign.

Canedy Sign will hold a ribbon-cutting and open house at its new Cape Girardeau facility at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 5.

"With our new facilities in Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, along with our original Sikeston location, we are able to bring costs down on our products and open the doors to manufacturing national accounts. We're also expanding our installation coverage area to triple the size that it has been," Lands said.

The company, in business since 1937, manufactures both lighted and unlighted custom signs, channel letters and does fabrication and project management for two national accounts. Canedy Signs is also a dealer for Watchfire LED message centers.

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Southeast Missourian business reporter Melissa Miller may be contacted at 388-3646 or mmiller@semissourian. com.