Orders are flowing in, inventory is flowing out, but you have to ask yourself, “Am I making any money?” Three rental experts tackled this question at the seminar “Job Costing: Pricing an Event from Start to Finish,” offered during the American Re...
Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals, the biggest event rental company in the U.S., has announced the acquisition of Red Hot Rentals, based in Phoenix. Adding the Red Hot Rentals team and inventory strengthens Classic’s presence, known locally...
Marketing matters, but it's not easy. If it were, then businesses would “all make huge profits quickly and retire early,” says Steve Kohn, president of Miller's Rentals and Sales in Edison, N.J. Here, Special Events Magazine highlights two comple...
Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals, the biggest event rental company in the U.S., announced today that it has acquired all five party rental outlets owned by 523 Capital of San Francisco. 523 Capital itself bought the outlets over the course...
The event rental industry reviewed both glamorous looks and profitable ways to pull them off at The Rental Show in Las Vegas. The event segment opened today; the official opening comes Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
At today's "E...
On the face of it, the event rental industry is looking forward to a good year in 2008.
A whopping 79 percent of respondents to the Special Events Magazine annual industry forecast say they will handle more events this year than they did in 2007...
San Francisco-based 523 Capital announced last week that it completed the acquisition of its fifth party rental outlet on the East Coast within the last 12 months. Chantilly, Va.-based Event Rentals, which serves the metropolitan Washington area...
If you haven't stocked up on lighted tables and eco-friendly ware, get a move on. Here, rental operators share what's all the rage …
COMPANY: M&M The Special Events Co., Carol Stream, Ill.
Hot: Lighted bars, shaped plates and chargers in differ...
Los Angeles-based Classic Party Rentals solidified its market dominance last week with its announcement that it has acquired major party rental companies in Chicago and New York. Classic acquired McCook, Ill.-based Chicago Party Rental, ranked fi...
October's wildfires in Southern California scorched the landscape, stopped traffic and made local rental businesses scramble as they dealt with the fallout.
BUSINESS AS USUAL?
During the fires that seared roughly 500,000 acres in Southern Calif...