Dan Thompson, CEO and founder of Italic Press

Italic Inc.'s expansion from Toronto into Saint John, New Brunswick

[EDIT] + ACC presents...The Story of Italic Inc.'s expansion from Toronto into Saint John, New Brunswick

Leading visual-communications company ITALIC (who work with everyone from Ariana Grande and Justin Timberlake to Drake and Harry Styles) expands operations from Ontario into New Brunswick. When you run a thriving business in Toronto that fuses online web services with digital printing for some of the biggest companies and stars on the planet, moving to a small town in New Brunswick might seem something of a curveball. But for Dan Thompson, CEO and founder of Italic Press, it made perfect sense, both professionally and personally, to move his family to Quispamsis and then open up a new branch of Italic nestled right beside Saint John Airport. And the risk has paid off. Italic opened its Saint John location in 2021, and it was hugely successful and — yes — profitable less than a year later. “ 

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Read the feature on Italic Inc. in the Fall 2022 edition.

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