Special Events

CLASSIC ACQUIRES ATLANTA PARTY PLUS, CAROLINA PARTY PLUS

Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals announced today that it has acquired Carolina Party Plus, based in Charlotte, N.C. ...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: DUDE, WHERE'S MY TRUCK?

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

A typical 40-truck fleet can be paying as much as a million dollars more for fuel now than they were two years ago, according to Alex Walker, CEO of Toronto-based...

THE LAST WORD: DC RENTAL'S JOE VALENTE IS OUT IN FRONT

By Lisa Hurley

Joe Valente has a big job handling big events. As general manager of DC Rental in Arlington, Va., he oversees a $13 million operation that serves some 6,500 events a year, including U.S. presidential inaugural balls, big-time sporting events and fundraising galas. Yet he describes his beginnings in the business as “humble”--he started at age 13 as ...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: CONSOLIDATION Q&A

BY LISA HURLEY

SPECIAL EVENTS MAGAZINE: When we interviewed Fred in 2002, we talked about how the party rental business was perceived by the investment community as...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: RAISING THE BAR CODE

BY LISA HURLEY

TOO costly, too cumbersome that's the opinion most event rental operators hold of bar-coding, the inventory management system that uses scanners to read...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: RFID INVENTORY SYSTEM MAKES IT ALL COUNT

BY LISA HURLEY

ELEGANT crystal, fine china, lavish linen event rental is a high-touch business. But managing rental inventory has traditionally been a low-tech affair,...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: CYBER-TRAINING HITS THE ROAD

WHEN you send your trucks off to the next big event, you have a lot more to worry about than just chipped china and lipstick on the lamours. One out of...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: REAPING GOOD ADVICE

BY LISA HURLEY

PARTY rental operators brought the questions and a distinguished panel of experts from the ARA's Rental Executive Advisor Program (REAP) supplied the...

THE LAST WORD: CLASSIC'S JOHN CAMPANELLI IS STILL GROWING

BY NATASHA GARBER

THOUGH his tenure with Classic Party Rentals has been relatively short, John Campanelli's outlook is firmly footed in the long term. With 17 months under...