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 […]
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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 […]
ArtPop Creates Buzz for Your Boards
How’d you like to use your vacant billboard space to create goodwill with local politicians and the local arts community? ArtPop is a company which promotes the arts by using vacant billboard space to display local art. The company is displaying works by 128 artists in 11 markets in the […]
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 […]
Southborough Slowing Permits
Lamar Central Outdoor LLC is frustrated with Southborough MA officials for slowing down the approval process to get a variance to build a digital billboard. Lamar is appealing a written decision by the Southborough Building Commissioner who is requiring the Company get a report from the Planning Board before even submitting its […]
OSHA Accident Reporting
Noone wants to have employees hurt on the job. But if something happens you don’t want to make matters worse by failing to report an accident to OSHA. In March 2015 OSHA changed reporting rules. Failure to report an accident in a timely manner could result in a $12,471 […]