Obie's ad capability takes some big steps.Byline: Joe Mosley Mos·ley , Sir Oswald Ernald 1896-1980. British politician and the founder and leader of the British fascist party. The Register-Guard Obie O·bie n. An award given annually for exceptional achievement in off-Broadway theater. [From O.B., abbr. for off-Broadway.] Media, a Eugene-based outdoor advertising company, has increased its production capabilities by 50 percent with the acquisition of a new, large-format digital printer. The company, which specializes in billboard and bus advertising, also has formed a new division to focus on its nontransit digital products business. The demand for such specialty graphics - from advertisements for the backs of motor homes to magazine-quality graphics that wrap around whole buildings - has grown with Obie's ability to produce and install high-quality digital prints. Over the past three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time company's digital production operation has grown at a rate of 43 percent per year. The company's new digital printer, its largest, complements the company's two existing printers that sometimes are in operation seven days a week. Thad Ames Ames, city (1990 pop. 47,198), Story co., central Iowa, on the Skunk River; inc. 1870. Its chief manufactures are electronic, water-analysis, and water-treatment equipment; motor vehicles; construction materials; and machinery. Iowa State Univ. , previously a pre-production supervisor and facilitator of specialty graphic concepts for Obie, will head the nontransit, specialty graphics division. The firm owns billboards and sells bus advertising for transit districts A transit district or transit authority is a special-purpose district organized as either a corporation chartered by statute, or a government agency, created for the purpose of providing public transportation within a specific region. across the country and in Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of . Its transit advertising - on buses, trains, benches, platforms and shelters - now accounts for more than three-quarters of its revenue. Obie reported last month that it had broken a string of quarterly losses with a slim profit of $5,197 in its fiscal second quarter - up from a loss of $461,396 in the same period of 2003. The company's stock, which trades publicly on Nasdaq, gained 25 cents to $4.40 a share on Wednesday. |
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