A GROWING Dumbarton business has just received a £500,000 investment. Advanced Display Solutions, based in Dumbarton’s Vale of Leven Industrial Estate, last week erected a new interactive sign at Loch Lomond Shores. The brain child of owner Campbell Cromar, from Helensburgh ADS, is Scotland’s leading iSign Network and is now employing several local people. Campbell told the Reporter: “We started in 2012, I had an idea on holiday about combining local information with digital signage. Interactive devices were just taking off, and we invented a distribution platform for local information.” Loch Lomond now boasts 10 of the digital signs and Campbell said it’s a ‘great’ area to cover. He added: “It was Visit Scotland that got in touch with us, visitor information centres are on the decline and we can close the gap in that market. Our strategy is to be in all the high footfall areas in UK.” Following the half million pound boost, the company’s future looks bright. Campbell said: “We have had investment from various private investors, Scottish Enterprise, West of Scotland loan fund, it’s a combination really, but it is down to traction and the track record we have so far.Scottish tourism is the top industries in the country at the minute and we chose this sector get started but we’re looking into retail and academia so we can connect to people on the move. Lomond Shores alone has footfall of one million people, the install base we have just now erected, we’re getting in front of about 20 million people. We want to be the first port of call for information access.”