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 […]
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OAAA Adds LaFoy, Maher, McCaffrey and Peppers to Board
May 7, 2020 (Washington, DC) – The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) announced today it has appointed four advertising industry innovators to its Board of Directors. Each new member of OAAA’s Board of Directors is a pioneer in the out of home (OOH) industry, all contributing to […]
Lewis Manderson, RIP
Industry legend Lewis Manderson Jr. has passed away. He was 94. Manderson founded and ran the out of home advertising company Creative Displays Inc. for over 20 years. After selling the company he was involved investment and charitable activities. The University of Alabama’s Manderson Graduate School of Business and the […]
Company of the Day – Grey Outdoor
Company: Grey Outdoor Headquarters: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina Markets: North Carolina, South Carolina Email: grey@greyoutdoor.com Phone: 910-620-5168 Grey Vick is a friend of and regular contributor to Billboard Insider. We thought it would be nice to sit down with Grey and have him share about his business Grey Outdoor. Grey, […]
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. The company’s green commitment is demonstrated in three ways. The company purchases […]
Haleigh Powell Says Prove Them Wrong
By Haleigh Powell, Director of Client Relations, Huntington Outdoor, haleigh@huntingtonoutdoor.com Do you know how important small businesses are? Almost 45% of economic activity in the U.S is created by small businesses, that’s how important each small business is! Small businesses have taken a hit and have seemingly started to struggle […]
Sloane on Asset Sales, As-Is Where-Is and Holdbacks
Yesterday’s Billboard Insider podcast guest Jennifer Sloane talked about lease mistakes. She also explained why you should buy assets instead of stock and how to use holdbacks. Should you do a stock purchase or an asset purchase? The most common structure is an asset sale as opposed to a stock […]
Inrix Reports Traffic Up 5% Last Week
US passenger travel increased by an additional 5% last week according to the Inrix US National Traffic Volume Synopsis issue #7. Passenger travel improved to 64% of normal for the week ended May 1 up from 59% of normal for the week ended April 24. Travel is compared to a […]
Company of the Day – Harmony Outdoor
Company: Harmony Outdoor Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 114 W Diamond St, PO Box 271, Butler, PA 16001 Phone: 724-282-8000. Email: Vsmith@butlereagle.com Harmony Outdoor advertising operates a plant with 90 billboards in four counties in Western Pennsylvania. The company is a subsidiary of the family owned Eagle Media Corporation. Eagle Media owns several […]
Jennifer Sloane: “Our industry will be just fine once the economy reopens.”
Today’s podcast guest is Jennifer Sloane, an attorney with more than 20 years experience practicing out of home law. Here are her comments on 4 mistakes out of home companies make in leases, when you have a legal case against your regulatory authority and what the future is for out […]