H&E Finalizes Acquisition of Colorado’s Contractors Equipment Center

H&E Equipment Services completed its acquisition of Contractors Equipment Center, a non-residential construction focused equipment rental company located in the Denver area.
Jan. 4, 2018
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H&E Equipment Services completed its acquisition of Contractors Equipment Center, a non-residential construction focused equipment rental company located in the Denver area. The acquisition is part of H&E’s ongoing strategy of acquiring rental companies to complement its existing business and footprint, and will augment H&E’s capabilities and efficiencies of scale in the market areas and geographies that CEC currently serves.

The assets acquired include approximately $84 million of fleet based on original equipment cost and three branch facilities serving end markets in the non-residential construction and other sectors.

“We are very pleased to have finalized the CEC transaction, which doubles our branch count to six in Colorado, significantly expanding our presence in a strong non-residential construction market,” said John Engquist, H&E CEO. “Our collective teams have been working side by side since we announced the definitive agreement in late November in an effort to ensure a seamless integration process post-closing. As a result, our newly combined Colorado operations have solid momentum entering the New Year. CEC is extremely representative of the type of acquisitions we intend to actively pursue.”

Based in Baton Rouge, La., H&E Equipment Services is No. 9 on the RER 100, and now has more than 80 branches in the United States.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.

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