Rental Equipment Register | Rental Company Profiles
A Growing Space
Tim Ford joined Genie Industries a year and a half ago as CEO, and has grown along with the company. RER editor Michael Roth had the opportunity to sit down with Ford at the ARA show, and in this candid interview with RER, Ford analyzes the company’s continuing international growth and manufacturing capability around the world....
United Rentals
Sunbelt Rentals
RSC Equipment Rentals
Hertz Equipment Rental Corp.
Home Depot Rentals
Catching Up With Growth
There are several crossroads in the growth of a rental company, or any business for that matter. One important turning point is getting past the first...
Get Your Shoes Dirty
Trying to raise $750,000 to start an aerial rental company, Dan Tumminello and Kevin Morrell were turned down by 47 lending institutions. No. 48 said...
The Pump Channel
The late 1990s was a time of dramatic change for Thompson Pump, as it was for almost everybody in the rental industry. A manufacturer of high-end pumps...
Hicks Takes the Reins
RER: How will United Rentals change under the leadership of Wayland Hicks? Hicks: There will be a lot of change, but let me start off with an explanation...
Fire Up the Power
On August 14, 2003, more than 60 million people in the eastern United States and Canada lost power as 21 power plants were shut down in a span of three...
Rental is a Diamond's Best Friend
The year was 1999. Mark Clawson, working in Palo Alto, Calif., near the epicenter of the dotcom boom, decided, along with a partner, to raise funds by...
Still with Us
It was so much simpler years ago. The manufacturer would ship equipment to its network of exclusive dealer-distributors who would keep large quantities...
Integrated Model
AOL and Time Warner. Exxon and Mobil. British Petroleum, Amoco and Arco. Chevron and Texaco. General Electric and Honeywell. First Interstate and Washington...
They're Back!
The conventional wisdom in the rental industry proclaimed it loudly NationsRent was dead. Calls came in to RER on a regular basis saying NationsRent is...
Turning Point
RER: First let's take a look at the evolution of Phoenix and Boston Partners. How did this organization come together? Suliman: Prior to NationsRent's...
The Second Time Around
It all started with drywall. James Horsley, co-founder of Lone Star Rentals in 1982, sold the five-location company to National Equipment Services in...
Storm Tested
It's midnight on a stormy Saturday night on an oil platform 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana. In addition to its oil-exploration equipment, the rig...
The Can Do Company
Consolidation, by and large, meant the disappearance of the regional rental company. One by one, United Rentals, Rental Service Corp., Hertz Equipment...
