Business

Shareholder Agreements and Succession Plans

Insider sees lots of small outdoor companies who don’t have shareholder succession agreements. This is a big mistake.  Insider has had two lending clients die suddenly.  In each case their company was protected by a succession plan which allowed the business to function without disruption. What should a good succession […]

Company of the Day – Park Outdoor Advertising

Company:  Park Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  11 Ascot Pl. Ithaca NY Markets: Covering 15,000 square miles in Central New York and Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties, PA Phone: 607.257.1477 Email:    bill.dugan@parkoutdoor.com Paid Advertisement

Outdoor Legal: Memories Change, Documents Last Forever

Outdoor land leases and easements are long term agreements.  Landowners have a way of forgetting exactly what’s in a lease or easement agreement with the passage of time.  Pocono Realty v Lamar demonstrates how a well written easement can protect you when your landlord has a fuzzy memory. In 1998 […]

Company of the Day: Oliver Outdoor Advertising

Company: Oliver Outdoor Advertising Markets: Pennsylvania Headquarters: 1768 North Main Street Extension, Suite 4, Butler, PA  16001 Phone: 866-669-1333 Oliver Outdoor is a family owned outdoor advertising company based in Butler, Pennsylvania.  The company was founded by brothers Jerry and Jaymie Oliver.  The company operates an 85 face billboard plant […]

The independent outdoor company guide to national advertising

Here’s a summary of a talk Terry Carmody of Integration Media and Beverly Rothenberg of NYMM gave on National Advertising at the IBOUSA meeting.  Agencies control the business on many large national companies (e.g. BP, Sprint, Verizon, Coke, Sams Club, Walmart) and place the advertising nationally for short 4-6 week […]

Jon Odom on Steel Billboard Maintenance

Jon Odom runs Productivity Fabricators, a Richmond, Indiana company which specializes in producing outdoor advertising structures.  He was a speaker at the recent OAAA safety meeting as well as the IBOUSA meeting.  Insider asked Odom for tips on steel monopole preventative maintenance and this was Odom’s answer: A periodic inspection is […]

Company of the Day – Next Generation Advertising

Company: Next Generation Advertising Headquarters:  5801 S. Perkins Road, Stillwater, OK 74074 Markets:  Two sided digital structure in Stillwater on Highway 177 Phone: 405.334.5638 Email:    dan@lednextgen.com Next Generation Advertising started in October 2010. The have two 10′ X 30′ Watchfire Digital boards on one structure. According to Dan Bell of NextGen both boards have […]

Company of the Day – Munn Outdoor

Company: Munn Outdoor Advertising Markets: Mississippi Headquarters: 772 Highway 49 N, Hattiesburg, MS Phone: 601-264-7446 Munn Outdoor operates a billboard plant in with 119 faces in the following Mississippi communities: Brooklyn Collins Columbia Hattiesburg Lucedale New Augusta Purvis Prentice Sumrall Wiggins The company is affiliated with Munn Enterprises which was […]

Six Tips For An Effective Outdoor Safety Meeting

Safety is a huge issue if you perform outdoor advertising install and maintenance work in-house.  At a recent OAAA safety meeting the President of an independent outdoor advertising company talked about seeing insurance premiums increase by $250,000 over the three years after his company had a large workers compensation claim […]