Sandwich Boards and Chalk Boards

Sandwich boards were first introduced in the 19th century as a board carried by a person to advertise and promote local shops and their goods to passing public .

At first they were placecards nailed to a long piece of wood and carried by people walking up and down the streets. Eventually progressing to Sandwich boards consisting of two boards held together by straps and worn on the shoulders to make it easy to carry and walk and allowing advertising messages on both sides of the board to be read.

The boards were printed or written on by chalk in most cases advertising the product to increase attention and awareness of the shop and product. Even today on the streets people carry boards or have sandwich boards on pavements to indicate location and service or a product special offer by retailers.

Sandwich boards come in all sorts of shapes materials and sizes. Most shops use these on everyday basis in every location possible on pavements to attract customers’. so they can reach out to the passing trade or customers. Businesses from hairdressing to restaurants use chalkboards and sandwich boards to attract greater foot fall to there special offers, the main types of businesses using chalkboards and sandwich boards include:-

Pubs, hotels, bars, cafés, wine bars, food outlets, supermarkets, petrol stations, newsagents, butchers, gifts, bedding, jewellery,railway stations to name just a few use sandwich boards or chalk boards to promote there products and services.

Modern sandwich boards are made of wood to plastics and some are even just one board that swings stabilized by weights and have advertising for a product or service printed on it. As technology moves and new ways and methods’ are invented to achieve better attention and be economical.

The new Led writing boards which emit fluorescent light in different colours back lit by Led lights to make them more visible. Led boards are now powered by batteries or even mains supply. These types of Led writing boards have glass surface which allows using water based marker pens to erase and rewrite your advertising or promotional messages or even drawings. This method allows users to change their message instantly and at anytime unlike the printed sandwich boards. Led writing boards are effectively a combination of sandwich board and chalkboards. .