Champion Decal is now for sale.

Current owner Connie Allard has been printing the decals for Champ since 1983 and has continued the tradition of excellence. Orders will continue as usual until some future date in 2010. At that point we will close our doors and take no more orders.

Only those seriously interested in purchasing Champ may request further information and for financial statements from our accounts, we will require a confidentiality document be signed first.

Included with the purchase of Champ:

* All current Champ inventory of decals (quantity will depend on when a purchase takes place), decal paper and ink.

* Over 1,000 files of digital artwork and custom made fonts (created in Adobe Illustrator and Fontographer)

* 14 plastic tubs full of actual railroad blueprints, research material, photographs and original artwork

* 2 Bookcases full of railroad books and Cyclopedia's

* 12 boxes of railroad slides (used for research)

* The recipe for Champ's Decal-Set and any remaining bottles, caps, chemicals.

* The recipes for Champ's ResiBond and ResiBond Spray, bottles, caps & ingredients.

* 2 Alps MD-5000 printers (both refurbished) and a supply of various color ink ribbons.

* www.championdecal.com domain and web site, which includes the shopping cart (took many days to complete)

* Although out of date, the order entry computer and the artwork computer.

* Office cabinets and desks. The cabinets house our thousands of decal sets.

* Packing table and packing tools

* Inventory of empty envelopes and other items to create our sets.

Offered in the sale is everything we currently have and use to operate Champ right now. If you are truly interested in purchasing Champ, we would recommend a trip to Minot to actually see all that Champ offers.

Call Connie at 701-852-4938 or email champ@minot.com. Again, only serious inquiries please!

Here are some snapshots of our office space. Since closing our printing plant we have had to store some of that inventory in our office, so that is the reason for some of the mess.

Everything, except actual decal printing, takes place here. All cabinets, desks and shelves are included in the sale.

Photos of the plastic bins is just to show how we have stored some of our old artwork, blueprints and research.