Business

Company of the Day: JR Billboards

Company: JR Promotions Market: Indiana Headquarters: 430 2nd St, Columbus, IN  47201 Phone: 812-379-2173 JR Promotions owns 1000 billboard faces in Indiana.  The company was started by Janeen Sprague in July of 1986.  She owned a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that relied on interstate billboards.   Janeen saw an opportunity to establish an outdoor […]

Geopath Appoints Three New Board Members

Geopath, the not-for-profit with a mission to provide state-of-the-art audience location measurement to the out-of-home (OOH) industry, today announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Joining the board are Joel Braswell, Senior Manager Connections Planning at Coca-Cola North America, Rick Newcomer, Executive Vice […]

Company of the Day – Jones Outdoor

Company: Jones Outdoor Market:   Wisconsin.  Headquarters: 1711 Scheuring Road, DePere, WI 54115 Phone:  (800) 536-7446  Jones Outdoor is a division of Jones Sign Company which founded in 1910.  The Company has 370 billboard faces and bulletin properties in Wisconsin, including digital. They have concentrated coverage in Wisconsin and the Fox […]

Company of the Day: Jones Outdoor

Company: Jones Outdoor Market:   Wisconsin.  Headquarters: 1711 Scheuring Road, DePere, WI 54115 Phone:  (330) 747-0057  Jones Outdoor has 370 billboard faces and bulletin properties in Wisconsin, including digital. They have concentrated coverage in Wisconsin and the Fox Cities area.  Christine Rutchik is Senior Outdoor Consultant.  Larry Sidman is Director of […]

Formetco Hosts Safety Training July 18-20

Formetco has a 3-Day Safety Training Event at its headquarters in Duluth, GA, hosted by Safety Director Jim Poage.  This event will begin with an OSHA training class that will be tailored to the out of home advertising industry, followed by a CPR/First Aid training class, an instructional class on […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds July 8

“Stott Outdoor recently desired to recruit and hire an individual with outdoor advertising industry experience.  When thinking as to how best to get the word out of our available position we thought of Billboard Insider.  We are glad we did.  The cost of the ad was reasonable and the response […]

Drones and Out of Home

  Ever parked your car in a precarious spot on a busy freeway to take sign pictures?  There’s a better way: drones.  Insider is aware of several out of home companies who are using drones to take sign pictures. An employee at digital billboard manufacturer Formetco has a commercial drone pilots license. […]

Company of the Day: Johnson Outdoor

Company: Johnson Outdoor Advertising Markets: Texas Address: 102 North Mays Street, Round Rock, TX  78663 Phone: 512-255-4300 Email: ajohnson@johnsonadv.com Johnson Outdoor is a family owned business which was started in 1978.  The firm in several Texas communities including Abilene, Austin, Kileen, Round Rock and Waco.  Archie Johnson is General Manager. […]

Investor Josh McWhorter on the Out of Home Business

Josh McWhorter owns McWhorter Capital Partners, a Cartersville, GA investment fund with holdings in real estate, accounting, restaurants and out of home advertising.  In 2015 the firm launched Horton Outdoor which owns billboards in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.  Insider asked McWhorter to talk about out of home. Josh what’s your […]

OUTFRONT Media Completes Billboard Asset Swap

NEW YORK, July 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) announced today that it has completed an asset swap with Independent Outdoor Network.  The Company acquired digital billboards in the Boston designated market area (DMA) in exchange for static billboards in four non-metro market clusters considered not strategic to […]