United Rentals has released its Corporate Responsibility Report for 2014, providing data about the company’s activities related to its customers, employees, communities and other stakeholders. Areas of focus include occupational health and safety, diversity, sustainability, environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
The information in the report is presented in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative G4 Guidelines, the company said.
“At every level, we are proponents of responsible growth and ethical behavior,” said Michael Kneeland, CEO of United Rentals. “Our board of directors and executive team are fully committed to responsible leadership, and our employees put our values into practice thousands of times a day. While we continue to make great strides, we are also eager to take on the next challenge.”
The report can be downloaded at www.unitedrentals.com.
United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental company has 900 rental locations in 49 states and 10 Canadian provinces. Based in Stamford, Conn., United Rentals is a member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, the Barron’s 400 Index and the Russell 3000 Index, and is No. 1 on the RER 100 listing of largest rental companies in North America.
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.