Sunbelt Rentals Acquires Wagner Rental & Supply

Sunbelt Rentals has acquired Wagner Rental & Supply, which has locations in Chillicothe, New Boston and Jackson, Ohio, and Ashland, Ky.
Nov. 22, 2022

Sunbelt Rentals has acquired Wagner Rental & Supply, which has locations in Chillicothe, New Boston and Jackson, Ohio, and Ashland, Ky.

“We are certain that this new chapter will result in us service our community better and will help advance the careers of all of our current employees,” the company posted on its Facebook page. “After much thought and consideration, we have decided to merge our four locations with Sunbelt Rentals and become part of their team.”

Wagner Rental & Supply has been in business for nearly 75 years. The company primarily rented to small contractors and homeowners, offering a wide range of hand tools, plumbing tools, lawn and garden equipment, track loaders, excavators, skid-steer loaders, floor-care equipment, scaffolding equipment and aerial equipment.

The Stansberry Firm represented Wagner Rental & Supply in the transaction.

Sunbelt Rentals, headquartered in Fort Mill, S.C., is No. 2 on the RER 100 with more than 1,100 locations.

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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.

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