Company: Gordon Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kansas and Oklahoma Headquarters: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Phone: 918-636-6474 Gordon Outdoor Advertising operates billboards in Oklahoma and Kansas. Jeff Gordon is the company’s owner. Brian Firth is the company’s in-house graphics artist and production manager. The company operates multiple static, trivision, and LED signs in Oklahoma and Wichita. Gordon […]
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Lamar Purchases PA Based Land Displays
To cap off a month of significant acquisition activity, the Reading Eagle reports that Reading, PA based Land Displays sold to Lamar Advertising. Land Displays, from our last Company of the Day, owned 134 structures, including 15 digital faces, 3 trivision faces, 65 bulletin faces and 136 poster panel faces in Berks, […]
Stu Lee on Updating Insurance Schedules
Insider wrote an article last week about the importance of updating billboard insurance schedules. Insider asked billboard insurance expert Stu Lee of Bassler and Co for his opinion. Where do you report your billboard locations in a typical billboard insurance policy? For any billboards that need property damage coverage, they […]
Company of the Day – Gilbreath Outdoor
Company: Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising Markets: Southeast Texas Headquarters: 407 South Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX 77546 Phone: 281-992-4555 Email: brett@gilbreathoutdoor.com Brett E. Gilbreath of Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising has been in the outdoor advertising industry literally all of his life. His father founded a small billboard company in 1964 and Brett worked […]
Are Cold Calls Dead?
By Andrea Messimer Are Cold Calls Dead? The short answer is No- If you throw enough things at the wall something will eventually stick or you will get lucky. Today, reaching prospects is harder than ever due to the fact there are so many channels. Here are the top 3 […]
Bartow County, GA updating sign code.
The Daily Tribune News reports that Bartow County, Georgia is considering an amendment to the County’s sign ordinance to: prohibit variances which increase the maximum area of signs increase the maximum number of billboards. prohibit new billboards or the conversion of an existing sign to digital The county, however, is […]
Company of the Day: George Lay Signs
Company of the Day: George Lay Signs Market: Kansas Headquarters: 1016 N. Waco, Wichita, KS 67203-3999 Phone: 800-888-0433 George Lay Signs is a family-owned Wichita based signs company and billboard business. The company was started in 1955 when George Lay quit his job designing neon signs for Wichita’s leading sign tompany to start his […]
Billboard Insider Classifieds September 1, 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. […]
Link Media Acquires Waitt Outdoor For $82 Million
OMAHA, Neb.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Link Media Outdoor (“Link”), a subsidiary of Boston Omaha Corporation (NASDAQ: BOMN), has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the operating assets of Waitt Outdoor, LLC (“Waitt Outdoor”), based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1999, Waitt Outdoor has grown to become one of the leading outdoor companies […]
Update your billboard insurance schedules
Are you buying or building new locations? Then keep your insurance schedules up to date. That’s the lesson of Lamar Advertising versus Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance. Here are the facts: Lamar Advertising had an insurance policy with Liberty Mutual. Lamar incurred damage to billboards as a result of hurricanes Ike […]