Australian brothers Mike and Brian Tyquin have been given a FEPE lifetime achievement award from the global out of home association FEPE.

The pair were awarded at the FEPE International Congress held in Stockholm on June 8.

Mike Tyquin runs Brisbane based goa and Brian Tyquin owns Outdoor Systems in Sydney.

John Ellery, executive director at FEPE International Executive Director, says, “Brian and Mike Tyquin have played key roles not only in the development of the OOH industry in their native Australia but worldwide too. Mike Tyquin and Brian Tyquin’s belief that doing the right thing for the industry would in turn result in commercial success is something that everyone in the global out of home industry can honour, as we do in this Lifetime Achievement Award,”

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Charmaine Moldrich, CEO of Outdoor Media Association says, “It was wonderful to be in Stockholm to see Mike and Brian receive this well-deserved honour. It was a poignant and special moment to witness their joy at receiving the award, and to see the room of over 350 delegates rise to their feet in respect and cheer the Tyquins with such affection and warmth. It certainly was a memorable night.”

Their father, John Tyquin Sr, worked for the newly formed Claude Neon Australia in Melbourne in 1934. Soon after this, John and his wife Kay took the job of opening Claude Neon in Tasmania, where both Mike and Brian were born. Tyquin became the company’s General Manager in 1960 and moved the family to Sydney.

In 1959, the family acquired Poster Display Company and other Outdoor companies in both Brisbane and Sydney. In June 1970 he merged these companies, together with 12 other groups, to form a national company, Australian Posters. This was a joint venture between the Tyquin family and the London and Provincial Poster Group, run by Roy Ellery.

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