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HSS Hire has been appointed exclusive plant outsource provider to Simons Group in the UK.

Youngman Group is starting to market an Australian-made, five-colour variable message board that it thinks has enormous potential in the rental market.

Former Cramo chief executive officer Gunnar Glifberg will be one of the two new inductees into the American Rental Association’s Rental Hall of Fame.

United Rentals has acquired Blue Mountain Equipment Rental Corp, a company with three locations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

For the second year, Access, Lift & Handlers is compiling a list of companies with the largest mast climbing work platform fleets in North America. The listing appears in the magazine and is a popular feature among our readers. Will your company make it on the list?

US-based equipment distributor Briggs International has promoted Mike Winemiller to the role of president.

Kiloutou has announced another French rental acquisition, buying Top’Loc, a Lyon-based company with 18 depots and 120 employees.

Sunbelt Rentals has purchased all of the assets of California-based Pacific High Reach and Equipment Services, Inc. for $17.4 million under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code. This includes approximately 1,200 pieces of rental equipment, from aerial lifts to generators, and roughly 35 vehicles. The deal was approved in bankruptcy court on Nov. 15 and closed Nov. 18.

Increased infrastructure spending worth €5.9 billion announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

View Murray Pollok's podcast report from the BICES exhibition, held in Beijing in October.

When a 190-foot-tall power plant cooling tower needed immediate work, Acme Lift Company's phone started ringing - and it came from United Rentals.

New UK construction exhibition Plantworx has received strong support from the industry ahead of its 2013 debut with 30% of total exhibition space already sold.

Dubai-based Byrne Equipment Rental has extended its UAE partnership with portable accommodation specialist Algeco to include Qatar.

Market surveillance key if Europe is to remain competitive, though there are concerns it doesn’t work.

The judges for the 2012 European Rental Awards will be Gérard Déprez (CEO, Loxam), Geert Follens (president, Atlas Copco Portable Energy), Kevin Minton (senior manager, Construction Plant-hire Association), Murray Pollok (Editor, IRN) and Magnus Rosén (CEO, Ramirent).

The Rental Show 2010 has been rated one of the top 100 North American trade shows for the year by Trade Show Executive Gold 100. The exhibition, which took place 7-10 February 2010 at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, US, attracted more than 600 exhibiting companies.

German-based rental software company Sycor will exhibit at The Rental Show in February as part of a concerted move into the North American equipment rental market.

Speedy has won a three-year contract with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) to supply lifting consumables to the nuclear processing sites at Sellafield, the 11 Magnox reactors, Dounreay and other locations.

Manufacturer of underground construction equipment Ditch Witch celebrated 10 years of operations at its Barcelona plant last month with a gathering of more than 300 customers and equipment dealers.