FUND ACQUIRES ARIZONA TENTS, PARTY CONCEPTS

Last week, investment company Sverica International, with offices in San Francisco, Boston and Montreal, finalized its acquisition of Phoenix-based Arizona Tents & Events and Tucson, Ariz.-based Party Concepts....

EVENT RENTAL FORECAST '07: IN THE CLEAR?

BY LISA HURLEY

IT'S Clear: The event rental industry is bullish on business in 2007. A total of 76 percent of respondents to this year's Special Events Magazine event...

MITCHELL KELLDORF IS A MASTER OF DRAMATIC DESIGN

BY ALEXANDRA GUDMUNDSSON

As we begin our 25th year publishing Special Events Magazine, each month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones....

GUEST ROOM: DANIEL KAPLAN ON OWNING RENTALS

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

FROM 1982 to 1997, Daniel Kaplan served as president of Hertz Equipment Rental Corp., the largest industrial and construction-equipment rental company...

Take This Job and Love It

By Natasha Garber

What started as a terrible day at the office turned out to be a terrific career move for Michael Berk, the president of Carol Stream, Ill.-based M&M The Special Events Co. ...

CLASSIC PARTY RENTALS CHANGES HANDS

In a deal described by rental experts as the biggest yet in the history of special events, Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals quietly changed hands last month, moving from Greenwich, Conn.-based Dubin Clark & Co. to Quad-C Management, a private equity firm based in Charlottesville, Va. ...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: KEEPING IT CLEAN

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

QUITE simply, Dirt means increased labor costs, as Matt Holt, vice president of Flemington, N.J.-based Celebration Party Rental, puts it. And dirt comes...

Miller to resume role with Aztec Tents

Torrance, Calif.-based Aztec Tents announced last week that owner Chuck Miller will resume his full-time role as company president and will resign his post as president of Classic Tents, the event rental outlet he has overseen for the past 13 months. Miller, who has owned Aztec Tents since 1981, will formally enact this transition on Jan. 1....

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: CONSOLIDATION IS CHANGING THE PARTY RENTAL LANDSCAPE

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

THE days of tool-rental shops offering a small selection of party accessories on the side are gone. Party rental companies are worth money, and nobody...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: RENTAL COMPANIES ARE BUSY, BUSY, BUSY

BY LISA HURLEY

ASK party rental operations, How's business? and you may have to wait for an answer. Why? They're too busy to reply. At Atlas Party Rentals in Boynton...