Business

Formetco Celebrates 50 Years of Business With Customer Appreciation Event

DULUTH, Ga. (December 27, 2018) On Dec. 6, Formetco celebrated its 50th anniversary by inviting its customers to a special appreciation event to celebrate. The milestone event included a 5-piece band with two singers, a magician, performances by Elvis Presley and Dolly Parton impersonators, an 18-ft. bar with an aerialist […]

Company of the day: Media South

Company:  Media South Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  Jackson, Tennessee. Markets:  Tennessee, Mississippi. Phone: 866.945.0243 Media South was started in 2007 by Norm Isbell.  The company has 28 faces placed strategically in Tennessee and Mississippi.  Most of the faces are 10.5′ by 36′.   Prior to starting Media South, Isbell was a division manager for […]

McLaughlin on Link Media’s Acquisitions and Culture

Link Media Outdoor has grown rapidly over the past year with $138 million  in acquisitions including Waitt Outdoor, Key Outdoor and Tammy Lynn Outdoor.  Link’s parent company has $117 million in cash and access to public debt and equity markets so you can expect Link to keep growing.  Insider talked with […]

Company of the Day – MH Outdoor Media

Company: MH Outdoor Media, LLC Headquarters: 11757 Katy Freeway Suite 1500 Houston, Texas 77079 Markets: Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida Phone: 281-596-6475 Email: jburkett@machaik.com A member of the Mac Haik family of companies, founded in July 2011 in Houston, Texas. Historically Mac Haik has owned, operated and leased a few outdoor advertising […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: New Orleans

Did you know: New Orleans was founded in 1718. New Orleans was once the capital of French territory in America. New Orleans has more miles of canals than Venice, Italy. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the New Orleans DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are […]

Company of the Day: Media Choice

Company:  Media Choice Market:  Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Illinois. Headquarters: 3701 Bee Caves Road, Austin Texas 78746 Phone: 512-693-9905 Email: info@mediachoice.com Media Choice operates a plant with 500 display faces in Central, South and East Texas,  and a few digital billboard faces in the Chicago DMA. The company was started in 1997 and is […]

Football + Billboards = Touchdown

Rutgers is using billboards to kick off the 150th anniversary of the first college game (Rutgers versus Princeton on November 6, 1869). To generate buzz about college football — and Rutgers — these “Birthplace of College Football” billboards appear in markets hosting college bowl games: Dallas (Cotton Bowl) Miami (Orange […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds December 22, 2018

“The response has been excellent.  Excellent investment.”  Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…”  David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up.  […]

Hall of Famer George Merovich to Retire

Just out of the Navy, George Merovich started in the winter of 1972 with Penn Advertising in York, PA — as a bill poster. Forty-seven years later, at Lamar’s regional office in York, PA, Merovich is responsible for development in 18 markets, from Providence to parts of Ohio.  He also […]

Almost…Almost is Never Enough

By Haleigh Powell, Huntington Outdoor Have you ever seen the movie “The Greatest Showman?” The entire movie is about a boy striving to become better and more in life. Throughout the movie, you watch as he gives up everything in life to achieve “success.” At the end of the movie, […]