JACK SHEA CELEBRATES 25 YEARS WITH SOLUTIONS BY COMPUTER

BY ALEXANDRA GUDMUNDSSON

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

GUEST ROOM: DAMON HOLDITCH ON MAKING YOUR MARK WITH YOUR COMPANY BRAND

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

PRESIDENT of the newly renamed Marquee Event Group in Austin, Texas, Damon Holditch, CSEP, CERP, purchased his party rental business in 1985 and turned...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: SHOWTIME FOR A NEW SHOWROOM

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

LA BELLA Party Rental Co. announced the April 11 grand opening of its new Napa, Calif., location with invitations that declared: We've Arrived. And that...

9th Annual 30 Top Event Rental Companies List

BY LISA HURLEY

FUEL prices may be rising. Labor costs may be rising. But the spirits of big event rental companies are rising right along with them as our 30 top companies...

THE LAST WORD: APRES PARTY'S CHARLIE FELDBAUM ON HIS EVENTFUL CAREER

BY NATASHA GARBER

QUESTION: What do you get when you take one real estate broker, add a love of at-home entertaining and a dash of entrepreneurial ambition? Answer: Charlie...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: A SHOWROOM WITH A VIEW

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

WHEN business booms, a rental company can outgrow its showroom quickly, and while making a move is never easy, an investment in a special space can really...

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...