United Rentals Releases Corporate Responsibility Report

United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental company, has released its Corporate Responsibility Report for 2017.

Michael Roth

Nov. 27, 2018

United Rentals39 Corporate Responsibility Report is organized around the company39s eight core values and is of interest to its investors customers employees and business partners — United Rentals' Corporate Responsibility Report is organized around the company's eight core values and is of interest to its investors, customers, employees and business partners.

United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental company, has released its Corporate Responsibility Report for 2017. The report documents the company’s progress related to social responsibility, diversity, ethics, occupational health and safety, environmental stewardship and corporate governance.

Organized around United Rentals’ eight core values, the report contains information of interest to the company’s customers, investors, employees and business partners. The data is presented in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative G4 Guidelines.

“Each year, our Corporate Responsibility Report offers tangible evidence of our values put into practice,” said Michael Kneeland, CEO of United Rentals. “We’re proud of the progress we’re making by continuously improving our organization. The achievements detailed in our 2017 report matter a great deal to us as a company and as individuals.”

The report is available for download at unitedrentals.com under Company/About Us.

Based in Stamford, Conn., United Rentals has 1189 rental locations in North America and 11 in Europe. United Rentals is No. 1 on the RER 100.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.