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Show AlphaGraphics franchisee obtains four new locations O Kermit Johnson, master franchisor fran-chisor for Alphagraphics in Utah, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, has sold his four downtown locations to Rob Johnson, an AlphaGraphics franchisee. Johnson will retain his location adjacent to the University of Utah, where he first started with a rented Xerox machine 23 years ago. AlphaGraphics is an international chain of state-of-the-art print centers offering one and two-color 0 printing, high-speed duplication and electronic graphic capabilities. There are 12 locations in Utah. "Over the past year our sales. 0 have increased dramatically," Johnson said. "In March, we had record-breaking sales in almost every store. Business has never been better. My wife, Keni and I have felt for some time that we needed to move more from the day-to-day operation of our stores to focus on the development of our franchise territory and the support of our existing franchise group. "Rob Johnson, one of our Utah franchisees, is one of the strongest operators in the AlphaGraphics 3 00-store system," stated Johnson. Rob, a distant cousin to Johnson, owns four other. Utah AlphaGraphics in addition to the newly acquired downtown locations. loca-tions. He opened his f irsi AlphaGraphics six years ago ir West Valley. The location ha grown to be one of the "Top Ten' stores in the AlphaGrahics System. His Bountiful location, whicl opened last year, made a profit aftei just one month in business. Rob anc his wife, Sandy, reside with thei two children in Bountiful. "Rob is an exceptional younj man with great production anc team-building expertise," Johnsor said. "His commitment to taking care of his customers has been th 2 key to his success "The printing industry is one of t the most competitive businesses i nationwide and here in Utah i Johnson said ' ' We have been successful l because we have offered the profes-r profes-r sional community the best of two 1 worldsbasic printing services r coupled with advanced technology in electronic graphics and duplica-l duplica-l tion. Our advertising slogan sums it 1 up, 'Professionals Serving Profes-l Profes-l sionals. ' We give the business community the service and quality s they need and they keep coming j L - a. J n back," Johnson continued. Recently Success magazine named nam-ed AlphaGraphics as the top business busi-ness service franchisor in the country. coun-try. This article came on the heels of a Money article naming AlphaGraphics one of the top franchises fran-chises (in all categories) for the '90s. In addition to locations throughout the U.S., AlphaGraphics has locations in Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, England, Hong Kong, Mexico, Mex-ico, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and most recently, Beijing, China. |
