Address: 18, Vishranti Enclave, Vasna Road, Baroda (Vadodara),Gujarat
Everyone knows the American side of story. Let me tell you the Indian side here.

http://gujaraticatholics.com/ is owned by IMAT group. Obviously they also run a matrimony page in it. Arya Marketing is a new website (Arya is name of Ashish Engineer’s son) owned by IMAT group. The other website you will notice is suchana.com owned and run by Anup Engineer and Ashish Engineer. Ashish died in August 2009 due to kidney failure as mentioned in one of many obituaries you can read in Catholic Samachar web page. When you will click on Catholic Samachar (news) logo you will see pdf files showing news from Gujarat state Catholics. It is in Gujarati language so ask any Patel to transfer it for you.

Anup and Ashish’s father’s name is Vijay Kalyan. Vijay Kalyan is the real owner of IMAT solutions. Ashish Engineer, the elder brother, was manager of finance department in IMAT Solutions. Anup engineer is the person for IMAT group working in USA. Florence Parmar is mother of Anup and Ashish. She is in charge of several websites owned by IMAT Solutions.

Now, How can we stop them spamming our streets in US? We should strike where it hurts them most-Their so called social status in Gujarati Catholic Samaj (society). If you read the above mentioned news paper you will notice that they always promote Anup and IMAT solutions’ success in USA in many articles. According to one article Anup has offices in 7 north American cities and a staff of 250 employees. He is the one who hires people (or slaves, well they pay around $80 for month (190hrs)) to a person who process our record) in India.

What we can do is write the editor of this paper and tell him the real sucsess IMAT group has in US. We can send IMAT solutions a small official notice in Gujarati daily news papers (Sandesh, Gujarat Samacar etc.) asking them to stop spamming American streets. It will cost $10 to issue such notice. It will not hurt them financially but it will destroy their ego and social status which is priceless. Gujarati Catholic Society is very small and every body knows every body. I am confident that something like this will make them think twice before polluting our street in USA.

By the way, I am a gujarati catholic and used to be classmate of Anup. Now I am us citizen and I don’t want my street to be polluted.

Excellent article on Street Spam in Staten Island. Includes quotes from Stephanie Zipf at Meet Over Drinks, who claims ignorance of the laws, etc.

Meet Over Drinks (formerly Great Date Now) is one of the companies that uses those “Single? Single in…” signs. They hide behind local-sounding URLs, but if you fill out their form, you get a response from the local Meet Over Drinks office. (They say they are the “parent company” of, e.g., DateStatenIsland.com – ha! – parent company of a $10 URL and a bunch of illegal signs, is what they are).

So, after reading this article and the comments, it seems to be a regional thing, not a local or national thing. The company (NuStar) puts these signs up all over the US, but it is for Great Expectations in one city, and Matchmaker Somethingorother in another city. But they are all equally illegal, ugly, shameless, and unrecyclable.

Then I began to notice them in other small towns as I traveled along.

Wonder if they work well…