August 24, 2018 BigRentz Promotes Holmes to Vice President of Operations BigRentz, the nation’s largest equipment rental network, promoted Keith Holmes to vice president of operations, reporting to Scott Cannon, CEO. Holmes was formerly the director...
August 16, 2018 Tejas Equipment Rental Names New CFO Tejas Equipment Rental, a privately held Texas company with seven locations service south and central Texas, has hired Raymond Prior, CPA, as chief financial officer. Prior has...
August 14, 2018 ARA Increases Rental Revenue Forecast to $53.04 Billion in 2018 For the second quarter in a row, the American Rental Association is projecting larger increases in revenue almost across the board for the equipment and event rental industry...
August 9, 2018 Herc Rentals Hikes Equipment Rental Revenue 11.9 Percent in Second Quarter Herc Holdings posted $392.5 million in equipment rental revenue in the second quarter compared to $350.8 million for the second quarter last year, an 11.9-percent year-over-year...
August 6, 2018 United Rentals Finalizes Acquisition of BakerCorp for $715 Million United Rentals has completed its previously announced acquisition of BakerCorp International Holdings for a total purchase price of approximately $715 million. The transaction...
July 27, 2018 ABLE Equipment Rental Announces the Opening of Its 6Th Location in the Northeast ABLE Equipment Rental, Inc. of NY (ABLE) a supplier of construction equipment rentals, sales, service and parts, is pleased to announce the opening of its new location in...
July 25, 2018 Rental Revenue Growth Slows in Q2, Baird/RER Equipment Rental Survey Shows NextPrev Average rental revenue grew 7 percent year over year in the second quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to the Baird/RER rental survey for the...
July 24, 2018 Cooper Equipment Rentals to Open Two New Ontario Branches Cooper Equipment Rentals is preparing to open two new Ontario branches this summer. First will be its second Trench Safety branch, in a new 8,000-square-foot facility in the...
July 21, 2018 United Rentals' Flannery Explains Baker Acquisition, Widespread Q2 Gains All of United Rentals’ regions increased rental revenue year over year in the second quarter, United president and chief operating officer Matt Flannery told an investors...
July 20, 2018 Loxam's Nationwide Platforms Agrees to Acquire UK Platforms From HSS Loxam Group, Europe’s largest equipment rental company, said its wholly owned subsidiary Nationwide Platforms Ltd. has entered into a conditional agreement with HSS Hire Group...
May 11, 2017 North American Tractor, Combine Sales Rise in April Canadian retail sales of large four-wheel drive tractors jumped nearly 120 percent in April compared to one year ago, according to numbers released this week by AEM.In addition,...
July 6, 2017 Curt Blades Joins AEM as New Senior VP, Ag Services AEM announced it has named Curt Blades as its senior vice president, Ag services.Blades replaces Charlie O’Brien, who announced his retirement from AEM earlier this year. The...
May 11, 2017 The End of the (Long and Winding) Road By Doug Zoerb, AEM Industry CorrespondentThe electronic pension payments now land neatly in my checking account at the end of each month, tracing the journey I have taken...
March 22, 2016 Latin America Construction - March 2016 Check out the March 2016 issue of the AEM Latin America Construction Advisor.Highlights include:Regional outlookU.S. exportsLatin America infrastructure risk/reward scores ...
July 13, 2017 Save the Date: Autumn 2017 AEF Plugfest As precision farming technology grows in importance for producers, so do the semi-annual Plugfest events that help manufacturers determine if their offerings are compatible with...
August 7, 2017 New Sanctions Could Greatly Impact Equipment Manufacturing Industry President Trump signed new legislation last week imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, which could have implications for the equipment manufacturing industry...
June 15, 2017 How Will New Work-at-Height Standards Impact Equipment Manufacturers? ANSI (United States) and CSA (Canada) standards have, for almost four decades, provided best practices for safe, reliable access to work at height and have delivered a...
June 28, 2016 AEM and MSHA Issue ‘Distracted Driving’ Safety Alert ‘Turn off your cell phone while operating off-road equipment’ is the key message from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the Mine Safety and Health...
November 20, 2017 Emissions Reductions and the Internal Combustion Engine's Uncertain Future By Mike Pankonin, AEM Senior Director, Technical and Safety Services The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has a problem on its hands.A very large portion of central and...
May 1, 2017 You Have to Think Like a Farmer By Amber Kohlhaas, Communications Manager, Hagie Manufacturing Business isn’t always learned in the classroom or behind the covers of textbooks. Farmers are the original...