Tag: Sons in the Shadow

Roy Park’s Tips For Getting Bank Financing

Roy H Park, Jr has published a new edition of Sons in the Shadow: Surviving The Family business as An SOB, a book about his business career including stints as CEO of Park Communications Inc. and Park Outdoor. He talks about how his father approached banks for financing: “…Park laid […]

Roy Park Jr on Two Management Styles Which Didn’t Work at Park Outdoor

Roy H Park, Jr has published a new edition of Sons in the Shadow: Surviving The Family business as An SOB, a book about his business career including stints as CEO of Park Communications Inc. and Park Outdoor.  Here’s an excerpt from the book where Roy Park Jr. talks about […]

Roy Park Jr on the Importance of Maintaining Your Plant

Roy Park Junior has published a new edition of Sons in the Shadow: Surviving The Family business as An SOB, a book about his business career including stints as CEO of Park Communications Inc. and Park Outdoor.   In 1976 Roy Park Jr’s father Roy Park asked him to fix […]

Roy Park Jr on the 7 Word Rule

Roy Park, Jr has published a new edition of Sons in the Shadow: Surviving The Family business as An SOB, a book about his business career including stints as CEO of Park Communications Inc. and Park Outdoor.  Here’s an excerpt from the book where he talks about what he learned […]

Company of the Day: Park Outdoor

Company:  Park Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  PO Box 4680, Ithaca, New York  14852-4680 Markets: New York, Pennsylvania. Phone: 607-257-1477 Email:  rick.steele@parkoutdoor.com Park Outdoor operates a billboard plant with 1,500 billboards in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania.  Park operates regional offices in Binghamton, Finger Lakes, Utica and Syracuse.  Rick Steele is the company’s Vice […]

4 things Insider learned from Roy Park Jr’s book

Roy Park, Jr., the owner of Park Outdoor, is the author of Sons in the Shadow, an unflinching chronicle of his time working for his father Roy Park Sr at Park Communications as well has his subsequent experience buying Park Outdoor from his dad.  Insider recommends the book for those […]