Market Roundup: Texas First Rentals Acquires Rental One

Texas First Rentals, a department of Holt, the licensed Caterpillar dealership for 118 counties in South, Central, North and East Texas, has actually gotten Rental One. Rental One is a full-service devices and storage container rental business using a total line of building and construction devices and products in 15 places throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth and Central Texas areas. According to the press release, the 300 existing Rental One staff members, consisting of the management group, will end up being workers of Texas First Rentals and will continue to run from present Rental One areas. The relocation broadens Texas First Rentals’ reach in the area, bringing the overall variety of areas as much as40 “Rental One is an outstanding tactical and cultural fit that matches our existing services and products,” stated CEO and General Manager of Holt, Peter J. Holt. “More notably, Rental One is a multi-generational, family-owned Texas business. As a family-owned company ourselves, we understand the worth of such a company and what that implies to our consumers.” “Our group has actually worked to construct an effective company with significant relationships that cover 3 generations,” stated Rental One President Mike O’Neal. “Our consumers will gain from a wider variety of items and combined competence as we sign up with the Texas First Rentals group. We continue to be devoted to supplying consumers with the very best devices and trustworthy service they have actually grown to understand.” Rental One was established in 2004 in Colleyville, Texas, with devices rental roots returning to the 1950 s. H&E Opens New Branch in Ocala, Fla. H&E Equipment Services has actually opened a brand-new rental branch in Ocala, Florida, its 11 th place in the state. The brand-new place consists of a completely fenced backyard location, workplaces and a different service center for building and construction and basic commercial devices. “Our brand-new Ocala branch fills a geographical space in the main and northern part of the state for us. We can now much better reach our client base in between our existing Jacksonville and Orlando places, and having a center along the I-75 passage gets us on the task website rapidly. Consistent population patterns and other beneficial financial conditions in the location indicate a strong, long-lasting nonresidential building projection, and we have the devices to efficiently serve those tasks,” states Branch Manager Jim Sill. The Ocala branch concentrates on the leasing of aerial lifts, telescopic forklifts, earthmoving equipment, compaction devices, generators, compressors and more and represents the following makers: BOMAG, Case, Doosan, Gehl, Genie, JCB, JLG, John Deere, Kubota, Link-Belt Excavators, Skyjack, SkyTrak, Towmaster Trailers, Wacker Neuson, Yanmar and others. MANUFACTURERS & SUPPLIERS AEM Hall of Fame Inducts Genie’s Sherman Ward ‘Bud’ BushnellThe Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) revealed that it has actually inducted Sherman Ward “Bud” Bushnell, creator of Genie, into its Hall of Fame Since its beginning in 1993, the AEM Hall of Fame has actually acknowledged more than 65 market leaders whose developments, concepts and management have actually added to the market, the association states. The award existed to Genie President Simon Meester at AEM’s Annual Conference in Napa, California, on November18 Bushnell (June 13, 1921 to Nov. 14, 2020) established Genie Industries, a producer of mobile raising work platforms. Today, the Genie brand name is owned by Terex Corporation. A creator and artisan all his life, Bushnell introduced the business in 1966 in a little storage facility in downtown Seattle. His very first lift run on compressed air, and consumers described the hissing sound it made as “Genie magic in a bottle,” resulting in the business name. Through his developments, Bushnell made operating at height more effective and much safer. “I am happy and humbled to be able to accept this honor on behalf of Bud and the Bushnell Family,” stated Meester. “Leading by example, putting the client initially and concentrating on the group to make it occur made us the business we are over the last 55 years. We have a great deal of interesting items coming our method the next 10 years, and Bud’s spirit remains in all of them.”
Read More