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...

EVENT RENTAL FORECAST 2006: THINKING BIG

BY LISA HURLEY

A better business climate? Yes. Tougher competition? Yes again. When we polled the event rental industry for our annual New Year's forecast, we heard...

GUEST ROOM: CHUCK MILLER ON THE CONSOLIDATION NATION

BY LISA HURLEY

L .A.'s Classic Party Rentals proved again that the big get bigger when it acquired the tent rental operations of Torrance, Calif.-based Aztec Tents &...

RENTAL ESSENTIALS: TRASH OR CASH?

BY LISA HURLEY

WHEN an item takes up space but doesn't make a profit, what do you do? This simple question draws a range of responses from party rental pros from selling...

CLASSIC SCOOPS UP DUCKY-BOB'S AND ABBEY

L.A.-based Classic Party Rentals, the biggest event rental company in the U.S., continued its acquisition spree with the announcement last week that it has acquired Ducky-Bob's Party & Tent Rentals, a major player in Texas, and Montebello, Calif.-based Abbey Event Services, a fixture in the L.A. market for years. Terms were not disclosed....