Language matters and imprecise language creates legal problems. That’s the lesson of Seymour versus Lamar Advertising. Here are the facts Hoosier Outdoor entered into a lease with the Elmore Limited Partnership to put 3 billboards on property in Seymour, Indiana. The lease was for six years and contained the following […]
Baton Rouge, LA – December 8, 2020 – Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today announced that emergency alerts transmitted over FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) will be displayed on select Lamar digital […]
KFOR.com reports that 34 year old Lamar Advertising of Oklahoma employee Chris Huskey was killed last week when he was shot attempting to recover a company vehicle stolen by a fugitive. Police later killed the fugitive in an exchange of gunfire. Friends called Chris “one of a kind.” This is […]
Lamar Advertising recently amended the terms of its $175 million accounts receivable securitization program. The amendment caught insider’s eye. Here’s the disclosure language. The Amendment increases the maximum three month average Delinquency Ratio generally to 13.00%, and up to 16.00% for up to two additional periods upon written notice from […]
Baton Rouge, LA – October 19, 2020 – In support of the effort to end human trafficking, Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, has teamed up with A21, a global anti-human trafficking nonprofit with the mission to abolish modern-day slavery, and […]
Los Angeles, CA – September 29, 2020 – Accretive Media (www.accretiveads.com), a digital out-of-home advertising company, today announced the launch of Accretive Connect™, a new solution that enables sequential messaging between programmatic digital out-of-home (pDOOH) and connected TV (CTV) advertising for the first time, opening the door for brands and […]
Lamar Advertising is in a long running dispute with the city of Pittsburgh over the Mt Washington sign. The dispute is before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after Lamar prevailed in lower courts. The Pittburgh Gazette says the PA Supreme Court appears skeptical of the city of Pittsburgh’s case to make […]
Lamar CEO Sean Reilly said Lamar will resume capital expenditures and acquisitions in an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia Conference. On spending money again. The first thing is beginning to play a little offense…we are beginning to do that by freeing up some capexp dollars and some acquisition dollars…that’s […]
Lamar Advertising will pay a cash dividend of $0.50/share on September 30, 2020. The dividend equates to a 2.96% yield on the stock down from the 4-6% dividend yield Lamar was paying prior to Covid. Lamar cut the dividend during Covid to conserve cash. Lamar’s dividend is running at 50% […]
The Four A’s interviewed Ian Dallimore, Lamar’s VP of Digital Growth. If you have any doubts that Ian is a man of many parts look at the books he’s reading: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance, Scott Galloway’s The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google and […]
