Vision Posters

Vision Posters is a Midlands-based billboard advertising company (shown above is a Labour election poster on one of Vision's sites). They gave the Labour Party more than £5,000 in sponsorship in 1998 and made a donation of £5,000 in 1999-2000. Scottish Radio Holdings (a radio, local newspaper and billboard company) bought Vision Posters in May 1999 and it now operates under the brand 'Score Outdoor', alongside Trainer Ltd, Signways (Manchester) and Parkin Advertising (Bristol). Score Outdoor operate about 4000 billboards with sales of £7.2 million in 1999.

In July 1999 the Government launched a consultation paper on Outdoor Advertisement control, in which they proposed the abolition of "Areas of Special Control of Advertisements" (ASCAs), in which billboards are banned (more than half of England and Wales are covered by ASCAs) and also proposed increases in the permitted level of brightness of illuminated boards.