All Rental Management Articles

New Holland has launched a rental booking service for equipment end users in Germany. The New Rent programme allows customers to book a rental online or to talk to an operator and supports the rental services being offered by its dealers.

Godwin Pumps in the US has completed implementation of Result Group’s rentalresult rental software system.

Italian building materials franchiser BigMat continues to expand its BigRent branded rental operation in Italy, with 20 of its 100 members now offering rental services in the counry and plans for a further ten to enlist during 2010.

Rental Solutions & Services (RSS) in Dubai is a fast growing power and temperature control rental company with global ambitions. Murray Pollok spoke to managing director Milan Balac about power rental opportunities, and a certain rental competitor…

Further consolidation of the rental sector is widely anticipated when the market emerges from recession. But has the recession changed the essentials of due diligence? It’s a question for both potential buyers and sellers of businesses, writes Peter Thomas of consultancy Will Leftwich Associates.

Cramo is one of the leading equipment rental companies in Europe. Being a player in a very ‘masculine’ industry, Anders Collman, head of corporate communications, was looking for a business-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) project that would add human values to the company’s image and appeal to younger people with a social conscience. Here, he describes the charity in the Ukraine that Cramo is now supporting.

A-Plant has invested in 270 hand-held computers for delivery drivers that are helping the company demonstrate to major customers that it is meeting agreed levels of service.

RSC Equipment Rental is offering customers an equipment emissions tracking service that will automatically calculate greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions from its diesel powered equipment.

Mike Disser, a former NES Rentals executive in the US, has formed a marketing consultancy business and is targeting the rental sector as well as other businesses.

Cummins Power Generation, the Cummins division that operates a power rental business, has confirmed that it will focus on being a supplier to the rental sector rather than a major rental provider in its own right.

One of Europe’s largest insurance companies, RSA (formerly Royal Sun Alliance), is warning equipment rental companies to be more vigilant against the threat of plant theft and criminal fraud.

Compact Power Inc (CPI) and Home Depot have signed a deal that will see CPI establish a new company, Compact Power Equipment Centers LLC (CPEC), to run large equipment rental business at selected Home Depot stores.

Spanish rental company GAM has negotiated a new schedule of debt repayment with its lenders to adjust to current business conditions. The company’s revenues fell 25% to €143 million in the first half of the year.

Global portable accommodation renter Algeco Scotsman said its multinational footprint was allowing it to weather the economic downturn better than its rivals although acknowledged that business conditions remained very difficult in markets including the UK, Spain and the US.

Hewden is making a major push to grow its national accounts business in the UK with the aim of increasing it to 50% of the company’s total turnover, up from the current 33-35% level.

Netherlands rental company Boels is adopting an expansionary strategy during the recession, with 17 new depot openings planned during 2009.

UK equipment rental company Hire Station is using the growth of its online rental business with erento to help it establish its ‘white label’ rental activities through the websites of major UK retail and online brands.

Catherine Stratton, author of the respected Plant Hire Investment Report, said the UK plant hire sector was facing one year or more of further decline in demand and that a rising level of business failures was the likely result.

Sunbelt Rentals in the US has developed a rental sales application for Apple's iPhone and has equipped 1200 of its sales staff and field personnel with the tool.

Two US rental veterans have launched a price comparison website for equipment rental. RentalHawk.com, based in Los Angeles, California, has been created by Robert Gray, a former United Rentals sales representative, and Mark Richter, a more experienced rental figure with a track record including Briggs Equipment, Diamondback Rentals and United Rentals.