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    1. Mergers & Acquisitions

    A to Z Equipment Rentals in North Carolina Acquires Country Aire Rentals, Morehead City, N.C.

    Sept. 25, 2024
    This is A to Z’s seventh location in the Carolinas and expands its presence up the coast.
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    A to Z Equipment Rentals of Wilmington, N.C., has acquired Country Aire Rentals of Morehead City, N.C. This is A to Z’s seventh location in the Carolinas and expands its presence up the coast. 

    “This acquisition allows us to better service our customer base into the growing coastal areas of eastern North Carolina,” A to Z vice president Austin Wilson told RER in an e-mail. “We also have a presence in the middle of two large military bases that gives us not only commercial and residential customers, it allows us to diversify our customer base with military contractors.”

    Country Aire was founded in 1985 by Ed Griffiths. A to Z was established in 1969 and has two locations in Wilmington, and branches in Leland, Sanford, and the Southport-Oak Island-St. James area in North Carolina, and one in Charleston, S.C. It has a wide-ranging construction inventory with aerial and earthmoving machinery as well as smaller items. A to Z is family-owned and operated.

    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.