Sunbelt Rentals Acquires George’s Tool Rental in Northern Pennsylvania
Sunbelt Rentals recently acquired George’s Tool Rental Inc. in northern Pennsylvania. Since 1970, George’s Tool Rental has served northern Pennsylvania as a general equipment rental provider. The business has primarily supported the needs of local commercial contractors and DIYers through its fleet of light dirt, small tool, general tool, and aerial equipment.
“We are happy to welcome GTR to the Sunbelt Rentals team,” said a statement by Sunbelt Rentals on its website. “This exciting development increases our northern Pennsylvania footprint and provides GTR’s customers with access to a more diverse product and service offering. Backed by an expansive national network and a fleet in excess of $11 billion, Sunbelt Rentals is North America’s premiere equipment rental company and services a variety of customers through a highly diversified mix of rental equipment.
“With the addition of new General Tool & Equipment locations in Hatfield and Danboro, Pa., Sunbelt Rentals can better serve the greater Philadelphia market and western New Jersey by providing an effective rental solution for any project or job, including infrastructure, residential or commercial construction, facility maintenance, or homeowner applications.”
The Stansberry Firm represented George’s Tool Rental in the transaction.
Sunbelt Rentals, Fort Mill, S.C., is No. 2 on the RER 100.
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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.