Important new products and trends for special event professionals including in FX, special effects, floral, lighting, linens, props, tabletop items, technical support and tents
I am sitting here on what has to be the most beautiful day of the year in Santa Barbara, Calif. My crew is busy setting up a wedding tent in the lower lawn and tightening up the dance floor on the upper patio. I've just posted the CAD (computer-a...
The American Rental Association, based in Moline, Ill., announced that it has named the following event rental leaders to leaderships roles within the association. Andrew Paquette, president of Bravo Rentals, Montreal; will join the board of dire...
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...
