Cooper Equipment Rentals Acquires Southern Alberta’s Prime Rentals
Cooper Equipment Rentals Ltd., Canada’s leading independent equipment rental company, has acquired Prime Rentals Ltd. Prime Rentals has two locations in Alberta; Lethbridge and nearby Taber. Prime was established in 1979, and over the past few decades has developed a loyal base of customers that rely on it for complete rental solutions.
Prime owners Kim and Trina Tymko will assist Cooper in ensuring a smooth transition of the acquisition over the next several months.
“We are excited about the expansion of our operations in the southern Alberta market with the addition of Prime Rentals’ experienced team of rental professionals, well-rounded equipment fleet and excellent branch facilities,” said Darryl Cooper, president of Cooper Equipment Rentals.
Cooper CEO Doug Dougherty added: “This strategic acquisition strengthens our position in the important Alberta market and allows us to better support customers throughout southern Alberta. It moves us closer to our goal of establishing a national network of branches through which we can deliver best-in-class service to customers throughout Canada.”
“My wife Trina and I take great pride in the business our family has built, and we are deeply committed to Prime Rentals’ employees and customers,” said Prime Rentals president Kim Tymko. “We have every confidence that this transaction will provide meaningful opportunity for our employees and will allow Prime Rentals’ customers to continue receiving the high level of service to which they have become accustomed.”
Established in 1972, Cooper Equipment Rentals, based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, now has more than 40 rental locations in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. CER is No. 31 on the RER 100.
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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.