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Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor

Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois  60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago.  Mike McHugh is the company’s owner.  He started the company in 1998 after a stint as a special projects coordinator for the City of Chicago. One of […]

Company of the Day – HighRoad Advertising

Company: HighRoad Advertising Headquarters: 34526 US Hwy 2 W. Grand Rapids, MN 55744 Market: Grand Rapids Phone: 218-256-2189 Founded in 2016, HighRoad Advertising is a family owned business based in Grand Rapids, MN. The Company owns and operates three digital billboards on Hwys 2 and 169.  The Company is owned […]

Matt Schulze on Billboard Structures

Last Friday we caught up with Selective Structures Matt Schulze as he was riding in his truck between out of home job sites.  Matt and Jon Odom at Productivity Fabricators are the two smartest guys Insider knows when it comes to billboard structures.  Matt talked about steel prices and permitting trends. […]

85% of US Adults Expect to Travel this Summer

WASHINGTON, March 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The overwhelming majority of U.S. adults (85%) are expecting to travel this summer, taking even more vacation time than they did in 2021: nearly half (48%) of Americans who plan to vacation this summer will take two weeks or more, up from (41%) last summer. Driving […]

Company of the Day: Greyline Outdoor

Company: Greyline Outdoor Markets: New York Address: PO Box 281, Bryant NY  14027 Phone: 716-983-9820 Greyline Outdoor originally formed in 1988 as S&S Enterprises, a small, local sign shop under owner/operator(s) Everett Scritchfield, Jr. and Linda Scritchfield.  1993 marked the first purchase of billboard by the company and set the path […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds March 12, 2022

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “We got a big boost in qualified applicants from running our ad on your site.”  Rodney Davis, Transformation Media “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor […]

Sean Reilly: Right Now Everything is Flashing Green

Sean Reilly was bullish at this week’s Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference.  Here’s a selection of his comments. The outlook It feels great…Looking at Q4 we set records with every financial metric…we’re seeing the same momentum carrying forward…as of right now everything is flashing green. Political It breaks […]

Daktronics Sales And Orders Are Up – Supply Chain is Still a Struggle

BROOKINGS, S.D., March 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Daktronics, Inc. (DAKT) today reported its results for fiscal 2022 third quarter which ended January 29, 2022. Q3 FY2022 financial highlights: Net sales of $139.6 million as a result of record orders and eased pandemic related site restrictions Operating loss of $5.7 million realized due to […]

Company of the Day: GreenSigns

Company: Greensigns Market: Chicago Headquarters:  2700 S. River Road, Suite 203.  Des Plaines, IL  60018 Phone:  312-624-8550 Email: info@greensignschicago.com Greensigns operates a network of digital and static billboards in the Chicago area.  Joseph Mancino is CEO.  David Williams is President.    Here are some highlights from our June 2020 podcast interview with CEO […]

5 Things About Lamar

Here are five things about Lamar which Billboard Insider learned from reading all 119 pages of the Lamar Advertising 2021 10K. Record this, record that. 2021 was Lamar’s best year ever for revenues, cashflow, cashflow margin and stock price.  The company used covid as a chance to prune expenses and […]