SALT LAKE CITY (July 2023) – YESCO, the 103-year-old company known for creating, repairing and maintaining internationally recognizable signs, announces the passing of board chairman Thomas Young Jr. on June 30, 2023. “It is with a heavy heart we announce the passing of my father and YESCO board chairman Thomas […]
Pat O’Donnell just retired as President of YESCO Outdoor Media after a 40 year career in out of home. Today he talks about acquisitions, remote work and what to monitor at work. Acquisitions I’ve probably been involved in 80-100. Everything from one unit to hundreds of faces. I’ve learned you can’t quantify […]
Pat O’Donnell just retired as President of YESCO Outdoor Media after a 40 year career in out of home. Today Pat talks about treating landlords well and the importance of good-looking structures. What have you learned about sign development? It’s changed. In my day you spent a lot of windshield time. You’d […]
Billboard Insider is running an interview series with Pat O’Donnell who just retired as President of YESCO Outdoor Media after a 40 year career in out of home. Pat served on the board of directors of the OAAA and in 2017 was inducted into the OAAA Hall of Fame. Today he […]
Company: YESCO Outdoor Media Markets: Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, South Dakota, Arizona & Nebraska Headquarters: 2401 Foothill Dr, Salt Lake City, UT 84109 Phone: 1-866-779-8357 YESCO produces custom signs, lightings and display systems for businesses and operates a billboard plant in the Western United States. The company was started […]
Here are highlights of day two of the IBOUSA fall conference. Billboard Plant’s Mike Donaldson on managing leases Focus on strikes and home runs. If you have a good lease extend it. If you have a bad lease renegotiate or terminate. Blackbird Media’s Mark Peterson on the importance of out […]
In the spring of 1922, a tailor in Ogden, Utah found himself in need of a double-faced electric sign to advertise his business. He approached Thomas Young Sr., founder of Young Electric Sign Company (known as YESCO). Tom had been in business for two years and already had a sense […]
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA—Premier out-of-home (OOH) media company BIG Outdoor recently upgraded an outdated LED video wall at Pacific City with EMPIRE™ Exterior LED display technology from SNA Displays. Pacific City is an open-air lifestyle, shopping, dining, and entertainment destination across the Pacific Coast Highway from the iconic Huntington Beach Pier […]
YESCO, founded in 1920, has played a significant role in creating Las Vegas’ reputation as a city of neon. From its early use of neon on Fremont Street in the 1930s, to the Strip “spectaculars” of the 1950s and 1960s, to the cutting-edge technologies of today, YESCO has helped mold […]
LOS ANGELES―LED display manufacturer SNA Displays has begun installation work on the massive LED display for the dual-branded Moxy and AC Hotel Los Angeles Downtown development at the intersection of S Figueroa St. and W Pico Blvd. The new LED mega-spectacular adds to a growing LA footprint for SNA Displays, […]
