About the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia Market Research Report
What’s Included in the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia Market Research Report
Definition of the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia?
The Billboard and Sign Manufacturing industry in Canada manufactures billboards, scoreboards, retail store signage and transit station advertising displays. Industry products may include nonelectric signs, digital billboards, video screens and neon signs. The industry does not include outdoor kiosks, phone booth advertising, bus or taxi advertising and other street furniture advertising. It also excludes any advertising or displays made from printing paper or paperboard.
What’s included in the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia?
The Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia includes manufacturing electric backlit signs, manufacturing electrical signs and advertising displays, manufacturing letters and numbers for signs (except wood and paper), manufacturing neon signs, manufacturing electric scoreboards and manufacturing nonelectric, primarily wood, signs and signboards. Related terms covered in the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia industry report includes the largest standard size outdoor medium that is usually placed along major highways and other high population areas, an outdoor advertising display typically placed primarily in commercial and industrial areas or along roads, a large, nontraditional billboard that is custom designed to capture maximum attention and often incorporates hydraulic movements, fiber optics and neon tubes, an outdoor advertising display offering static messages that rotate six to eight advertisements every eight seconds and a semiconductor light source that is being increasingly used in digital billboards and displays.
Industry Performance of the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing industry in Nova Scotia
Benchmark the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia industry performance with all NS Census Metropolitan Area and national performance.
Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia
#8 in Highest Revenue 2.2% of province's GDPRevenue (2025)
Annual Growth (2020-25)
Annual Growth (2025-30)
Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Canada
Revenue (2024)
Annual Growth (2019-24)
Annual Growth (2024-29)
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Key Drivers of the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing industry in Nova Scotia
See how key industry drivers, such as population, net migration, private investment in residential construction, total advertising expenditure, demand from billboard and outdoor advertising and corporate profit are impacting Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Economic Indicators
Population
Net Migration
Private Investment in Residential Construction
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Canada Key External Drivers
Total advertising expenditure
Demand from billboard and outdoor advertising
Corporate profit
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Census Metropolitan Area Data of the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing industry in Nova Scotia
Access proprietary data on Census Metropolitan Area in the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing in Nova Scotia, such as Halifax, Cape Breton and Kentville. Data includes figures on revenue, establishments, employees and wages by Census Metropolitan Areas.
Key Statistics of the Billboard & Sign Manufacturing industry in Nova Scotia
Download 18 years of historical data and 5 years of projected performance.


