Cooper Equipment Rentals Acquires Alberta’s One Stop Rentals & Sales
Cooper Equipment Rentals Ltd., leading Canadian-owned and operated construction equipment rental company, has acquired 100 percent of the shares of Airdrie, Alberta-based One Stop Rentals/Sales Ltd. Consistent with the growth vision for Cooper Equipment Rentals, this acquisition is a further step towards Cooper firmly establishing itself as the only Canadian-owned, nationally positioned, rental company.
Established in 2013, One Stop is an equipment rental company focused on providing rental services throughout Southern Alberta, including Airdrie, Calgary, Strathmore, Cochrane, Chestermere, and Olds. The company offers quality, late model equipment that is supported by a highly experienced team of approximately 25 rental professionals.
“Our team is very proud to join the Cooper Equipment Rentals family and have found the acquisition and transition to be seamless,” said Todd Maxwell, president of One Stop.
“We’re pleased to welcome One Stop into the Cooper family,” said Doug Dougherty, CEO of Cooper. “The One Stop team has built a great business with a quality reputation in the market, and we are proud to be partnering with them as we continue to grow our company across Canada.”
The One Stop branch, which includes a significant climate control business, will join Cooper’s Southern Alberta Region under the direction of regional manager Justin Wharton. “We’re delighted that Todd Maxwell, one of the shareholders of One Stop, will maintain his function as branch manager and play an integral role in assisting us in the transition of the acquisition over the next several months,” said Wharton.
This latest acquisition extends Cooper Equipment Rentals’ coverage of the greater Calgary area, adding to the growing network of strategically located branches across Canada and supporting Cooper’s existing presence in the Alberta Region.
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Cooper Equipment Rentals has more than 55 branches in six provinces. Cooper is No. 17 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.