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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Former CBS Outdoor executive Danielle Klein is launching a new outdoor company 7 Heaven targeting the world’s fat cats who travel by private jet. She reckons there a four million private jet journeys in Europe, the Middle East and Africa ...
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The management team of Ocean Outdoor, backed by LDC Capital (part of Lloyds Banking Group), has bought the company from its early stage investors, Smedvig Capital and others, for an undisclosed sum. This means that Ocean Outdoor will stay independent ...
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More strife has emerged in the ever-interesting UK outdoor industry with Alastair Lines of Canary Wharf Media accusing industry trade body the Outdoor Media Centre of overplaying the benefit new digital sites are bringing to the wider industry, neglecting the ...
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The city of Los Angeles is suing Beverley Hills poster company SkyTag for ‘millions of dollars’ in the latest round of its battle to rid the city of huge ‘supergraphic’ posters which it claims are both dangerous (to office inhabitants ...
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CBS Outdoor is suing London Underground owner Transport for London over its alleged mismanagement of the £1.5bn tube advertising contract CBS ‘won’ in 2006. Among the things CBS failed to anticipate were upgrading engineering works for the ageing system, modernisation ...
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