Bowlin Outdoor Advantage & Travel Centers - BWN- Profile

BOWLIN Outdoor Advertising & Travel Centers Inc. operates full-service travel centers and restaurants which offer brand name food and gasoline and a unique variety of merchandise to the traveling public in the United states. In addition to the travel centers, the company operates outdoor billboard advertising displays which are strategically situated along interstate highways. Bowlin's travel centers offer food and beverages, ranging from ice cream to snack foods at some locations and full service restaurants at other places. The company acquired The Big-Tex outdoor advertising, Norwood Outdoor, Inc, Edger Outdoor advertising Co, J & J Sign Company, T & C Outdoor Advertising and Faris Outdoor Advertising during fiscal 1998. The company also offers brand name gasolines such as Citgo, Conoco, Chevron, Texaco and Diamond Shamrock. The travel center are located in Arizona and New Mexico. The outdoor advertising operations include leasing of sites, construction of display structures, sales of advertising space and production and design of display faces. The company's customers are largely of local and regional advertisers. During the year 1999, the company purchased the assets of GDM Outdoor Advertising and opened a travel center. Travel center operations, accounted for 78% of 1999 revenues and outdoor advertising operations, 22%. During the year 1999 the company purchased the outdoor advertising assets of GDM Outdoor Advertising and Borderline Outdoor Advertising, Inc.