Tag: acquisitions

Clear Channel Outdoor Closes 5 Acquisitions During Fourth Quarter 2021

Billboard Insider posted on the torrid fourth quarter 2021 out of home transactions market a couple of days ago. We have learned since then that Clear Channel Outdoor had been active along with the other major out of home companies.  The company closed 5 acquisitions in 4 different markets for digital […]

Reilly: Lamar has $1 billion in dry powder for acquisitions

Sean Reilly was cogent as usual at last week’s Wells Fargo media conference.  Here’s a selection of his comments. On the future We’re positioned very well.  It starts with audience.  People are spending more time stuck in traffic…commute times are getting longer…I don’t see that changing any time soon…A little […]

Acquisition Activity – Perspective From The Brokers

Most of you may have noticed a number of acquisition related articles recently on our Insider web site.  As a thought experiment we started listing them for the year.  This is the list we created with links to the articles, and we stopped after we had only gone back as […]

Huntington Outdoor Buys Echo Outdoor

Huntington Outdoor has recently acquired Echo Outdoor billboards located in Sidney, Ohio. Huntington Outdoors mission is to help small businesses thrive and the buyout of Echo Outdoor provides Huntington with more opportunities to achieve this mission. “We are thrilled to announce the buyout of Echo Outdoor,” said Justin Powell, CEO […]

Lamar Bought Middleton Outdoor

On March 13, 2017 we reported that Middleton Outdoor sold its Texas plant.  Max Drachman of Kalil and Co brokered the transaction.  The Victoria Advocate ran an article on the sale yesterday which identified Lamar as the buyer.  Middleton operated 10 digital billboards in Victoria, Texas. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement […]

Dusty’s acquires Woods Outdoor Media

Illinois-headquartered Dusty’s Outdoor Media continues to expand in Tennessee with the purchase of Woods Outdoor Media from David Woods. With the execution of this deal, Dusty’s owns over 410 billboard faces in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky & Tennessee.   This is the second acquisition this year for Dusty’s in Tennessee.  In […]

Dusty’s Outdoor Acquires Moore Outdoor Media

Illinois-headquartered Dusty’s Outdoor Media has acquired Jackson, Tennessee based Moore Outdoor Media.  With the execution of this deal, Dusty’s owns 410 billboard faces in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.  Insider talked with VP Sales Travis Rhodes about the transaction. Tell us about the Moore plant. The plant consists of 9 […]

Where can I find billboards for sale?

Where can I find billboards for sale?  One way is to do-it-yourself.  This means driving around or doing the internet research to identify billboards  you’d like to buy, looking at the name on the nameplate and calling the owner.  The do-it-yourself approach takes a lot of work and is inefficient […]

Max Drachman on Recent Outdoor Deals

Max Drachman is a outdoor advertising industry investment banker with Kalil and Co.  Insider interviewed Drachman last week about trends in the outdoor advertising M&A market. Max, have you closed any transactions since the last time we checked in with you in early September? Yes, we have closed four more […]