Skyworks Acquires Florida’s Gold Coast Hi-Lift

Fast-growing Skyworks has acquired Gold Coast Hi-Lift, a family-owned and operated equipment rental business with locations in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla.

Michael Roth

Oct. 4, 2023

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Fast-growing Skyworks has acquired Gold Coast Hi-Lift, a family-owned and operated equipment rental business with locations in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Fla. Gold Coast has more than 20 years in the equipment rental world. The addition of its two locations to Skyworks and its current Fort Myers and Sarasota, Fla., branches, gives the company a strong presence in Florida.

“We look forward to working with Joe and Frank Villella, Dillon Villella – branch manager of the Fort Lauderdale location since graduating college, Mark Buonomo, branch manager of West Palm Beach location for the last 20 years, and all their employees who have been with Gold Coast Hi-Lift for many years,” wrote CEO Jerry Reinhart in a letter to employees. “Joe Villella will be staying on with Skyworks to oversee the operations of both the Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach locations.”

Skyworks, headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., now has 25 branches. The company is No. 26 on the RER 100. It has locations across the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast United States. (Pictured above is Jerry R. Reinhart, right, his father Jerry Reinhart, left, and son.)

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

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.