Former British ad agency executive William Eccleshare has been displaced as boss of out of home giant Clear Channel by Scott Wells who will become CEO of Clear Channel Americas, in charge of the US and Canada. Eccleshare (left) is ...
Read More »Gregory’s appointment as new Exterion CEO opens the door to possible deal for UK indie Ocean Outdoor
Exterion Media, the new name for CBS Outdoor outside its home territory of the US, has appointed former Telefonica boss Shaun Gregory (left) as its new CEO. Which is intriguing for a number of reasons, not least because Gregory was ...
Read More »Taxi Media owner VeriFone tipped to bid for CBS Outdoor out of home business
CBS is trying to sell its CBS Outdoor out of home business outside the US (in the US it’s been changed into a real estate investment trust) and US company VeriFone is tipped as a likely bidder. VeriFone claims to ...
Read More »CBS confirms plans to sell outdoor business outside the US – will WPP’s Kinetic be a buyer?
CBS CEO Leslie Moonves (pictured) has confirmed that he wants to offload its outdoor business outside the US (including the UK) while it plans to turn itself into a REIT, essentially a property investment company, in its home market. REITs ...
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