Signs are good for Hollywood Monster as workload increases

BIRMINGHAM signs and graphics specialist Hollywood Monster is experiencing a business boom on the back of improving fortunes in the property sector.

An upsurge in activity in the sector has seen the Tyseley company win new projects with property firms including ProLogis, Morgan Sindall, Carillion, Miller Developments, Stoford and Ashfield Land.

The firm is also working with housebuilders such as Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes as more residential developments get off the drawing board and construction begins.

Hollywood Monster provides site branding, design concepts, engineering, planning, project management and installation of signage and hoardings at new site start-ups.

Managing director Tim Andrews said property related business once accounted for around 20% of the company’s workload. In recent months it has rocketed to around 50% of its business.

He said: “Traditionally, we have always worked with companies in the property sector but during the recession the number of developments dropped dramatically and we had to find work in other, more buoyant, sectors.

“Thankfully, the property market has bounced back very strongly and the number of new projects reaching the development stage is amazing, with many more in the pipeline.

“It’s fantastic to see the sector recover so well and it has led to a big influx of new business for us.”

Andrews believes that Hollywood Monster’s recent investment of more than £1m in state-of-the-art digital printing technology is one of the reasons it is gaining so much new business.