Company: Mashburn Outdoor Headquarters: 2555 Marietta Highway, Ste. 102, Canton, GA 30114 Markets: Atlanta GA Phone: (877) 413-3683 Email: nslota@mashburnoutdoor.com Led by Richard Mashburn, Mashburn Outdoor has owned and operated over 328 traditional and digital billboard faces throughout the Southeast. Mashburn currently operates 28 digital and 6 static faces in […]
Month: July 2022
Rothfelder On Texas SB 19 And The First Amendment Right To Refuse Firearm Ads
It seems like everyday there’s a new mass shooting, whether its Uvalde, Buffalo, Parkland, Sandy Hook, and on and on. And, just as predictably, there’s more and more talk about gun control legislation. Especially in these tragic times, everybody appears to have an opinion under the Fourth Amendment, namely whether […]
H.I.G Capital Aquires Watchfire Signs
DANVILLE, Ill. – July 26, 2022 – H.I.G. Capital (“H.I.G.”), a leading global alternative investment firm with $50 billion of equity capital under management, is pleased to announce that one of its affiliates has completed the acquisition of Watchfire Signs, LLC (“Watchfire” or the “Company”). Headquartered in Danville, Ill., Watchfire […]
Answers to Your Questions on the Watchfire Purchase
To get the story behind today’s announcement that H.I.G. purchased the Watchfire Signs, Billboard Insider reached out of H.I.G. with some questions. Who are the H.I.G principals who will be active in the investment? Ryan Kaplan, Managing Director, and David Miller, Principal, will be engaged with Watchfire. What intrigued H.I.G […]
JCDecaux Renews Shanghai Metro Contract
JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced that it has signed a 15-year contract to extend the advertising operations of lines 1 to 13 of the Shanghai Metro as well as 5 new lines (lines 14 to 18). This contract, awarded following a tender, […]
Company of the Day: Meadow Outdoor
Company: Meadow Outdoor Markets: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah Headquarters: PO Box 331, The Dalles, OR 97058 Phone: 800-221-4114 Meadow Outdoor is a family-owned, firm started by Joe Zukin in 1968. Joe began his association with the outdoor industry while President of Frontier Village Amusement Park in San Jose, CA in the […]
Vendor Profile: Productivity Fabricators
Vendor: Productivity Fabricators Address: 2332 Flatley Rd, Richmond, IN. 47324 Email: jonodom@cyberprofab Phone: 765-966-2896 Productivity Fabricators is a private family owned and operated billboard structure fabricator located in Richmond, Indiana. The company has 16 employees and a 40,000 square foot plant. Productivity Fabricators is a member of the OAAA and […]
Rate This Ad by Wes Frick
Rate This Ad allows a billboard designer to rate a random billboard ad using the following scale: 1 (not good), 2 (below average), 3 (average), 4 (very good), 5 (great). Then the designer talks about what they may have done differently for outdoor advertising. This week’s rating is provided by […]
Are You a Billboard Nerd?
Insider will proudly admit that my family has given me the title “Billboard Nerd”. Seems that wherever I travel, eventually I will point out a billboard that interests me. My wife or kids, if they are with us, will roll their eyes and call me a Billboard Nerd. It seems, […]
Company of the Day – Mesa Outdoor
Company: Mesa Outdoor Headquarters: 582 Market St., San Francisco CA 94104 Markets: Southern California Phone: 925.386.6372 Email: info@mesaoutdoor.com Mesa was founded in 2008 in Contra Costa County with the goal of developing outdoor advertising structures. Their projects include locations from Sacramento to San Diego. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement