Who is NeonCentral?

NeonCentral is the Internet's premier wholesale neon outlet brought to you by Everbrite, LLC. The goal of NeonCentral is simple: "Allow smaller sign shops to benefit from Everbrite's efficiencies, quality and wholesale prices to expand their product lines and their bottom line." With today's Internet technologies, this goal can be accomplished. We've created the products and the tools, now we need your help. Join our team by signing up as a NeonCentral Commissioned Rep or Distributor. But first, to help you better understand just who we are, please read about Everbrite's history below.

About Everbrite: History

On March 27, 1927, Charles J. Wamser founded Sheet Metal Products, Inc. where Mr. Wamser, a sheet metal worker and a salesman worked out of a rented garage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This company made signs one at a time using sheet metal with interior incandescent light bulb illumination and lettering formed from opal glass. When neon signs became popular in the 1930s Charles J. Wamser wanted to get into this market. Georges Claude held the patents on the electrodes that made neon signs possible. Charles J. Wamser created his own electrode that did not infringe on Claude's patent, making it commercially viable to produce neon signs in the United States. In 1933, with the repeal of prohibition arose the need for quantity production of signs and Everbrite's long term association with the brewing industry began. Sheet Metal Products became Everbrite Electric Signs, Inc. in 1935, which better characterized the business at the time.

By the 1940s, the need for a universal look in product promotion on a national level was taking place. Detroit car manufacturers, petroleum companies, as well as Milwaukee breweries wanted their brand names promoted in the same fashion in every retail setting to improve brand identity. The market demanded mass-produced signs and Everbrite had developed the technology and expertise to meet the demand. During World War II, when metal was prohibited for manufacturing use, production continued by changing to non-metal materials such as Masonite and composition board. When plastic entered the market, Everbrite entered the plastic sign industry and found ways for neon to coexist with this new material and backlit signs became the trend.Charles J. Wamser turned management of the company over to his son, Carl H. Wamser, who became president on March 14, 1954.

During the 1960s Everbrite began making all types of indoor point-of-purchase signs, including clocks, numerous elaborate wall pieces and a vast array of menuboards. In the 1970s Everbrite became an International company and began shipping signs overseas, with the shipment of a McDonald's sign, which was installed in London in 1974.

Everbrite surpassed other sign manufactures in the late 80s by building the industry's first on-site UL Listed Reliability Testing Center.

In the beginning of the 1990s, Everbrite made a massive contribution to the neon industry by being one of the leading companies to develop a solid state power supply. This revolutionized Everbrite's neon signs in many ways, making them smaller, lighter and easier to handle.

The company has grown significantly over the years and is recognized as a major designer and manufacturer of point-of-purchase displays and indoor, outdoor and neon signs. Everbrite Electric Signs officially became Everbrite, Inc. in 1990 and then Everbrite, LLC in 2003 to project the full capabilities of the company.