Special Events

TOOLS OF THE TRADE: SOFTWARE HELPS OPERATORS RENT RIGHT

BY KELLY WARDLE

In this high-tech age, software is a necessity for every business, especially one with as many components as event rental. Whether the concern is managing...

GUEST ROOM: DAN SKENA ON PROMOTING PARTY RENTAL

This month, Pittsburgh Party & Tent Rental owner Dan Skena starts a three-year term on the ARA board of directors as chairman of the association's Party...

CONFETTI: CAMARGO CREATES EXHIBIT SPACE FOR MUSEUM GALA

KELLY WARDLE

When board members from the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati contacted David Murphy to design an event area for the May grand reopening of the museum...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: TRAINING AIDS HELP RENTAL OPERATORS PLAY IT SAFE WITH TENTS

BY LISA HURLEY

THE ARKANSAS TENT tragedy in October in which three employees of a party rental company died after allowing a tent they were carrying to touch power lines...

EDITOR's PAGE: REWRITING THE RULES

BY LISA HURLEY

THE WACKY WORLD of permitting for special events has most event rental operators doing one of two things: A, striving to comply while silently cursing...

GUEST ROOM: BETSY STONE ON HER SECOND TIME IN PARTY RENTAL

FROM HER START renting her spare white wood chairs to fellow caterers in the mid-'90s, Betsy Stone built South San Francisco-based Sisters Party Rentals...

THE LAST WORD WITH SIGNATURE'S TOM BROWN

BY NATASHA GARBER

NEARLY THREE DECADES in event rental have taught Tom Brown a thing or two about how to sustain success. First off, when a good opportunity presents itself...