United Rentals Acquires Missouri-based ChaseCo Rentals
ChaseCo Rentals, a leading independent general rental equipment provider headquartered in Sullivan, Mo., has been acquired by United Rentals.
Founded in 2004, ChaseCo Rentals quickly distinguished itself with customers by providing the highest quality rental equipment and unsurpassed customer service throughout central and eastern Missouri, according to Catalyst Strategic Advisors LLC, which served as exclusive transaction advisor to ChaseCo Rentals.
“I am exceptionally proud of the ChaseCo team, and their extraordinary commitment to our customers and each other,” said Chase Darrah, founder and owner of ChaseCo Rentals. “I am pleased that United Rentals will take the ChaseCo platform to the next level by providing our customers and team with futher investment in growth. I am excited about the future our customers and team will have with United Rentals.”
United Rentals is ranked No. 1 on the RER 100 with more than 1,500 locations worldwide and a rental fleet valued in excess of $20 billion. ChaseCo Rentals made the RER 100 this year for the first time, ranked at No. 100, with $13.2 million in 2022 rental volume. The company has four 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.