Business

Company of the Day: Giesken Outdoor

Company: Giesken Outdoor (Ohio) and  Giesken Outdoor (Michigan) Markets: Ohio, Michigan Headquarters: 115 Sophia’s Lane, Ottawa, OH  45875 Phone: (866) 443-7536 or (419) 233-71453 Email: tom@gieskenoutdoor.com Giesken Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan, mainly Dearborn Heights with both digital and static billboards.  Tom Giesken started the company […]

Reilly Preparing for Consolidation and Ad Agency Turmoil

Lamar must be prepared to take advantage of industry consolidation and ad agency turmoil.  That’s how Lamar CEO Sean Reilly began his remarks to the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference last Thursday.  Here are the highlights. On changes in the ad agency market There’s great turmoil in the big agency business.  Clients […]

Hurricane Florence Damage Update

The news after the weekend was encouraging as Insider checked in with several Outdoor companies with operations in North and South Carolina. Hal Stevenson at Grace Outdoor was feeling very blessed as the impact of the store was minimal for the Company. Claude Dicks at Allison Outdoor says all is […]

Acquisition Activity – Perspective From The Brokers

Most of you may have noticed a number of acquisition related articles recently on our Insider web site.  As a thought experiment we started listing them for the year.  This is the list we created with links to the articles, and we stopped after we had only gone back as […]

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 […]

Out of the Office: Dave Daucanski

Dave Daucanski, Senior Vice President, Vector Media, says this: I enjoy cruises as it gives me an opportunity to find hidden gems and return for a longer vacation at a later date. I am not sure yet which one will become the next vacation spot like St. Barts became after […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds September 15, 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.  […]

Celine uses Mobile Billboards for New York Fashion Week

By Emily Fritz, Marketing Manager, do it outdoors media Fashion brand Celine, which recently underwent a brand refresh under new creative director Hedi Slimane, wanted to dominate New York Fashion Week. Ahead of the new line’s debut, the brand looked to raise anticipation – and get fashionistas talking! In partnership with […]

Company of the Day: Green Signs

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 […]

Selena Kalvaria on Out of Home

Selena Kalvaria, VP, Brand Marketing, at Luggage Maker Away talked about out of home, transit advertising and Times Square billboards on last Sunday’s Digiday Live podcast. Nice to see Kalvaria and the Digiday interviewer recognize the effectiveness of out of home.  Here’s what Kalvaria says about out of home. Let’s […]