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Stonington, CT to review Zoning Code

The Westerly Sun reports that the town of Stonington, CT is doing a comprehensive review of the town’s 50 year old 250 page zoning code. One of the issues which will be addressed is whether to allow digital signs.  A group of fuel dealers in town are unhappy because they’ve […]

Lamar Stunting in Alabama

Al.com reports that Lamar is stunting in Alabama with a billboard which reads: Your Wife Knows – Tom Traylor, Lamar’s territory manager says it’s a sign for a local business.  The billboard in on Valleydale Road in Birmingham, Alabama. Insider’s take: Stunts can be effective.  Think Extra Credit Projects puzzle […]

Outdoor Legal: Advertising Contract Names Matter

Most of the time the names on an outdoor advertising contract are scribbled in at the last minute. The names on the contract matter immensely when it’s time to collect. Here’s an interesting case involving Adams Outdoor.

John Dangerfield opened a restaurant called Johnny’s Suzuki in South Carolina in 2005. The restaurant was managed by a company called Johnny’s Enterprises, Inc.
John Dangerfield signed an outdoor advertising contract with Adams Outdoor on behalf of Johnny’s Suzuki.

Company of the Day: Dangerfield Outdoor

Company:  Dangerfield Outdoor Markets: Georgia Headquarters: 245 University Avenue SW, Atlanta, GA  30315 Phone: 404-418-8417 Dangerfield Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 5 static faces and 1 digital face in Atlanta, Georgia. Two of the faces are 20 by 60, 2 of the faces are 19 by 48 and two […]

New Billboards Leave West Michigan Puzzled

Here’s a press release talking about another Grand Rapids billboard stunt by Extra Credit Projects, the same comapny which ran the fruits and vegetable stunt earlier this summer. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—For days in September viewers were puzzled by a handful of billboards around Grand Rapids. The solution followed close behind […]

Outdoor Pioneer Dean White dies.

Forbes, Indystar and the Chicago Tribune report that Outdoor Pioneer Dean White died at age 93 on September 14, 2016.  In 1946 he joined his father’s Selby, IN White Advertising  and built it into  Whiteco Industries, a nationwide outdoor advertising company which he sold to Chancellor Media Corp. for $960 million […]

From the Business Side

Being the “organizational wonk” of the Westburg/Weller Billboard Insider partnership, this will be the first of periodic thoughts on the business side of operations. Let me know if you think they are worthwhile? You may have recently read about Wells Fargo Bank and their problems with thousands of employees secretly […]

Company of the Day – Brooks Billboard

Company:  Brooks Billboard Corporation Headquarters: 10735 Avenue Rd., Perrysburg, Ohio 43551 Markets: Toledo, I-75 south to Dayton and state routes in northwest Ohio Phone: 419.874.6400 Email:  Brookswelker@yahoo.com Brooks Billboard Corporation operates a 100 billboard plant in Ohio.  The company is owned by Brooks Welker.  The company started as a painting and sign contactor.  The company’s […]

Crookston MN OK’s Billboard

An update from our Monday post on Sky Digital’s proposed new digital structure in Crookston, MN.  After attorneys for Sky Digital and Crookston National Bank Monday evening stated and restated their cases for and against the digital billboard, the City Planning Commission, and the Crookston City Council, both voted in […]

JCDecaux Joins Dow Jones Sustainability Index

09/14/2016 JCDecaux joins the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the benchmark index for socially-responsible companies Paris, 14 September 2016 – JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that following an evaluation by RobecoSAM (a company specialising in sustainable investing) and in partnership with S&P Dow […]