Durante Rentals Makes Inc. 5000 List for Fourth Straight Year
Durante Rentals LLC has been listed on the Inc. 5000 as one of the United States’ fastest-growing companies at No. 1643. It marks the fourth consecutive year Durante Rentals was listed, going from No. 1879 in 2013 to No. 2098 in 2014, No. 1869 in 2015 and now its highest ranking yet.
Durante Rentals posted a growth rate of 228 percent for the past three years and had 2015 total sales of $15.8 million. During the same time period, Durante Rentals added 45 new jobs to the local New York economy.
“2015 was a special year for us, as we really scaled nicely and our financial performance proves it,” said chief financial officer Christopher Jones. “We were ahead of budget all year and this is attributed to the hard-working and talented staff we have. From our drivers to the mechanics to the rental coordinators to the support staff, everyone worked together to produce fantastic results we can all be proud of.”
“We’re extremely proud of our team for a fourth consecutive victory,” said John Durante, president of Durante Rentals. “We understand how difficult it is to maintain this type of growth, but that is exactly what drives our team each and every day – to be better than yesterday.”
Durante Rentals, founded in 2009, now has seven branches in New York City, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.