Digital Advertising Company to Expand in Elizabethtown | Eastern North Carolina Now

Press Release:

    RALEIGH: Anthem Displays LLC, a national manufacturer of digital billboards, will create 17 jobs in Bladen County, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced today. The project will generate a $3.6 million investment in Elizabethtown.

    "North Carolina continues to attract new jobs in a wide range of industries," said Governor Cooper. "Global companies like Anthem Displays see the potential of growing in southeastern North Carolina because of the strong workforce that is ready to get to work."

    Anthem Displays is an industry leader in state-of-the-art digital outdoor advertising displays and solutions. In 2018, Prismaflex International, a worldwide operator of direct-out-of-home advertising, took a minority stake in Anthem Displays. Anthem Displays provides digital display technology for advertising companies, including Lamar Advertising, globally and in all 50 U.S. states. Its Boulder, Colorado location will consolidate and relocate electronics and firmware operations to Elizabethtown, where the company currently employs nine workers in the design and manufacture of display frames.

    "We are pleased to build upon our 35-year history in Bladen County," says Nico Marais, Partner of Anthem Displays. "The majority of the outdoor billboard market is east of the Mississippi River, which was one of the top reasons for consolidating our operations to North Carolina. This expansion will provide greater efficiencies and quality in producing our digital billboards for our customer base."

    "Our one-of-a-kind talent, convenient access to global markets and moderate business costs continue to attract jobs and investment both nationally and internationally," North Carolina Commerce Secretary Anthony M. Copeland said. "Anthem Displays' expansion in Bladen County is further evidence that our state and its economy are as resilient as any in the world."

    Among the positions Anthem Displays will add in Elizabethtown are electronic assembly personnel and managerial staff. The average annual salary for the new positions could exceed $38,300, creating an annual payroll impact of more than $651,750 per year for the local economy. The current average annual wage in Bladen County is $34,856. The company's expansion will occur at a facility developed by Bladen's Bloomin' Agri-industrial, a nonprofit corporation supported by the Golden Leaf Foundation, USDA Rural Development, and the US Economic Development Administration.

    A performance-based grant of $50,000 from the One North Carolina Fund will help locate Anthem Displays to Bladen County. The One N.C. Fund provides financial assistance to local governments to help attract economic investment and to create jobs. Companies receive no money upfront and must meet job creation and capital investment targets to qualify for payment. All One N.C. grants require a matching grant from local governments and any award is contingent upon that condition being met.

    "Nothing speaks more credibly to the quality of North Carolina's business climate than when an existing business weighs its options and decides to bring more jobs and production to one of our communities," said N.C. Representative William D. Brisson. "I'm proud of the great work of our economic development leaders in facilitating Anthem Display's expansion to Bladen County."

    The North Carolina Department of Commerce worked closely with the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina in leading a collaborative state effort to support the company's expansion. Other key partners in the project include the North Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority, the North Carolina Community College System, Golden Leaf Foundation, North Carolina's Southeast, Four County Electric Membership Corporation, Bladen Community College, Bladen County Economic Development Commission, Bladen County Board of Commissioners, Bladen County Committee of 100 and the Town of Elizabethtown.


  • Contact: Ford Porter
  •     govpress@nc.gov

Go Back


Leave a Guest Comment

Your Name or Alias
Your Email Address ( your email address will not be published)
Enter Your Comment ( no code or urls allowed, text only please )




Beverage Co-Packing Company to Add 231 Jobs in Cabarrus County Commerce Expansion, NC Economy, Business Italian Maker of Plastic Packaging Will Bring 46 Jobs to Robeson County


HbAD0

Latest Business

A national report card on hospital patient safety has ranked North Carolina in third place among hospitals in the U.S. that had mostly “A” ratings when it comes to patient safety, up from sixth place this past spring.
RALEIGH: Lynddahl Telecom America Inc. (LTA), a duct solutions company for fiber optics installations, will create 54 new jobs in Gaston County, Governor Cooper announced today.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, and against the Department of Environmental Quality, in a dispute over animal-waste permits.
Trying to turn our oceans into sprawling, on-again/off-again electric stations is becoming even more prohibitively expensive.
Mercedes-Benz is scrapping its plans to only sell electric vehicles after 2030 as consumer demand for EVs remains lower than what automakers projected.
A subsidiary of one of the largest health insurance agencies in the U.S. was hit by a cyberattack earlier this week from what it believes is a foreign “nation-state” actor, crippling many pharmacies’ ability to process prescriptions across the country.
The John Locke Foundation is supporting a New Bern eye surgeon's legal fight against North Carolina's certificate-of-need restrictions on healthcare providers.
The cellular outage that crippled service for AT&T customers all over the U.S. on Thursday was likely the result of a software update gone wrong, the company said.

HbAD1

North Carolina has climbed to rank 9th in the nation for its tax climate, according to the latest study conducted by the nonprofit Tax Foundation.
The Tax Foundation, a Washington D.C. based nonpartisan tax policy research organization, has released its 2024 State Business Tax Climate Index.
Toyota, Kempower, and Epsilon Advanced Materials – all companies in clean energy industries – top the year’s $12.9 billion project list
Epsilon Advanced Materials (EAM), India’s leading battery materials company has announced a $650 million investment in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
I recently wrote about “How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy.”
The North Carolina Home Builders Association is asking Superior Court judges to reject Gov. Roy Cooper's request for an injunction against new laws dealing with appointments to government boards.
Lululemon founder Chip Wilson is taking backlash for his recent comments about the brand’s adoption of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies — which he said led to the use of “unhealthy,” “sickly,” and “not inspirational” models to promote the brand.
WASHINGTON, NC— The Beaufort County Community College Foundation received a $40,000 donation from the First Annual Belhaven Trout Tournament and Festival.
FedEx Founder and Executive Chairman Fred Smith warned during an interview that the BRIC nations — which primarily consist of Brazil, Russia, India, and China — have set out to dethrone the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency

HbAD2

 
Back to Top