Tag: Stark Capital Solutions

Lender Profile: Stark Capital Solutions

Billboard Insider is continuing its series on out of home lenders.  Today’s profile is based on an interview with Chris Stark of Stark Capital Solutions. Lender:  Stark Capital Solutions Address: 5829 N Post Rd., Indianapolis, IN. 46216 Email: cstark@starkcapitalsolutions.com, cberry@starkcapitalsolutions.com Phone: 260-433-5833 Talk about your background in out of home: I was first introduced […]

Huntington Billboards Sells Louisiana Assets to McWhorter Media Group

Huntington Billboards (“Huntington”) announced today the sale of its Baton Rouge, LA outdoor advertising assets to McWhorter Media Group (“MMG”).  Stark Capital represented Huntington Billboards in the transaction. The transaction included 90 existing advertising displays, along with 10 additional displays currently under development. The assets are located across the greater […]

Huntington Billboards Sells Florida Assets to Lamar

Huntington Billboards (“Huntington”) announced today the sale of its Florida outdoor advertising assets to Lamar Advertising Company (“Lamar”).  Stark Capital represented Huntington Billboards in the transaction. The transaction included 48 existing advertising displays, consisting of 42 static displays and 6 digital displays, along with 8 additional displays currently under development. […]

Looking Ahead With Stark Capital

Insider is listening on Friday morning to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell give his strongest signal yet that interest-rate cuts are coming soon, saying the central bank intends to act to stave off a further weakening of the U.S. labor market.  Of course, the overall economy is important, but the […]

Out of Home Lender: Stark Capital Solutions

This is the second of Billboard Insider’s profiles of out of home lenders.  Last week we profiled Alerus Financial.  Today we profile Stark Capital Solutions. Out of Home Lender: Stark Capital Solutions Address:  5829 N. Post Rd, Indianapolis, IN. 46216 Email: cstark@starkcapitalsolutions.com or cberry@starkcapitalsolutions.com Phone: 317-546-6038 Loan Amounts:  $500k and up. Stark […]

11 Out of Home Due Diligence Hot Buttons

When selling or buying a billboard company, there is a routine due diligence process that must be followed to successfully complete any transaction. For nearly 20 years, Stark Capital Solutions has advised and represented a variety of buyers and sellers on over $315M worth of billboard-related M&A transactions.  Throughout our […]

The SignValue/Billboard Insider 2022 Out of Home Lender List

Out of Home lending is a specialized form of finance.  To save the time and trouble of having to educate your lender on the ins and outs of Out of Home here’s an alphabetical list of 56 Out of Home lenders compiled by SignValue and Billboard Insider.  We asked SignValue […]

Anatomy of a Deal by Stark Capital Solutions

By Chris Stark and Craig Berry, Stark Capital Solutions Through our years in the industry, we have been involved in and completed hundreds of billboard transactions. While most of them are fairly “standard”, we’ve encountered some with unique stories, interesting details and complex backgrounds.  We thought it would be interesting […]

Stark Capital on the Lamar Acquisition of Burkhart Advertising

Stark Capital Solutions acted as the exclusive advisor to Lamar Advertising Company in Lamar’s acquisition of Burkhart Advertising in South Bend, Indiana, which was announced yesterday. Burkhart, the 8th largest out-of-home company in the United States, was formed in 1964 by Charles Burkhart.  The company was owned and run by […]

How Much Debt is Too Much?

At the most recent Independent Billboard Operators (IBO) Conference in Pittsburgh, Billboard Insider’s Dave Westburg moderated a fantastic panel discussion on industry merger and acquisition activity.  During the discussion, Dave made some comments related to his thoughts on the healthy amount of debt for a billboard company.  At Stark Capital […]