Herc Rentals Awarded Military Friendly Top 10 Employer and Receives Gold Designation
Herc Rentals announced that the company has been awarded the prestigious Military Friendly Employer — Gold designation for 2023 and Top 10 ranking in the category of companies generating between $1 billion to $5 billion in revenue by Viqtory Media. This is the company’s eighth consecutive year of receiving a Military Friendly Employer designation, and first as Gold status.
Military Friendly distinctions are awarded to organizations investing in programs to improve the lives of veterans. The elite Military Friendly Top 10 ranking is earned by leading organizations’ active commitment, effort, and success in creating sustainable and meaningful benefits for the military community.
“We are committed to supporting our Team Herc veterans in multiple ways, including through our Veteran Resource Group, which offers our veterans a community of support, networking, collaboration, learning and sharing,” said Larry Silber, Herc president and CEO. “We remain focused on hiring military veterans as their demonstrated work ethic, teamwork and skills translate as ideal qualities for their career with Team Herc and for colleagues to emulate.”
“Military veterans are purpose-driven and bring a unique set of skills and experiences to Herc Rentals,” said Mark Arell, vice president, talent, and a U.S. Army veteran. “We’re proud to know that our company is a becoming a career destination for military veterans who are shifting over to the civilian workforce, and we are pleased to have welcomed so many who chose Team Herc for their next mission. Our recognition as a Military Friendly Top 10 Employer reflects our ongoing commitment to attracting, hiring and developing our military veterans as well as those actively serving in the National Guard and Reserves.”
Herc Rentals, No. 3 on the RER 100, has 351 locations in North America.
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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.