Company: Reagan Advertising
Markets: Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Tennessee, Texas, Utah
Headquarters: 1775 North Warm Springs Road, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone: 801-521-1775
Reagan Outdoor was started in 1965 and is privately held. Reagan is the 5th largest out of roadside billboard company in the US with 9,300 total faces including 300 digital billboard faces in 7 states.
Reagan’s Chairman William Reagan serves on the Board of Directors of the OAAA and was recognized for his industry contributions in 2017 with the OAAA’s Miles Standish Distinguished Achievement Award of Excellance, the industry’s highest award. Dewey Reagan sits on the OAAA Legislative Committee. Frances Reagan Copinga sits on the OAAA Marketing Committee.
On June 12, 2024 Julia Louise Dolowitz Reagan, William Reagan’s wife of 58 years passed away.
In September 2023 the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of Reagan prevailed in a sign rebuild dispute with the city of Noblesville, Indiana.
Reagan Outdoor was a party in Reagan vs Austin which challenged the constitutionality of on-premise off-premise distinctions for sign regulations. On April 21, 2022 the US Supreme court affirmed the constitutionality of on-premise, off-premise distinctions for regulating signs.
In 2019 Reagan purchased Fairway Outdoor’s plant in Indiana, Tennessee and Minnesota using a $260 million loan from Barclays Bank.
Bill Reagan has a great story on entering the out of home business. To quote from our December 2020 interview:
“Bill you’ve got quite a story.
I started in the out of home in 1963. I got a job working for someone in the sign business. He had me doing lots of things, maintenance, then leasing and then selling. I earned enough money in my first three months out of high school to pay cash for a new Cadillac, but I didn’t. In the Fall of 1963 I went to Case Western Reserve as a Pre Med Student on a Football Scholarship. After my first year I dropped out and went to worked for the the Harry H Packer outdoor advertising company selling and leasing. They had plants in Cleveland, Toledo,Cincinnati and Utah. On January 1, 1965 Foster and Kleiser bought Packer and after two month I was laid off because they thought I was too young. I went to Utah to join my family as my father had been transferred their from Ohio. In 1965 I started my own sign company out of the basement of the house. 4’ by 12’ signs to start. I was also working at Galaxy Outdoor Advertising but they fired me when they learned I had my own sign business. I built and operated a bulletin, an 8-sheet plant and a 30-sheet plant while I finished undergraduate and Law School and practiced law for 7 years. I bought Galaxy for $7 million in 1981 borrowing all the money at 21% and subsequently raised in 1987 a $100 million to purchase the Rollins company which had plants in Philadelphia, Delaware, DC and Texas. I spun off the other assets in 1991 and kept the Austin plant free and clear of debt.
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