United Rentals Named to JUST 100 List of Top Performing Companies
United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental company, this week announced it was named to the 2023 JUST 100, a ranking of America’s largest publicly traded companies on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues. JUST 100 is a preeminent list of companies that are doing right by all their stakeholders – employees, customers, communities and the environment – while also generating strong performance for shareholders.
The ranking is determined by independent research nonprofit JUST Capital. United Rentals was ranked No. 1 in its industry category for workers. The company placed 82 overall in the 2023 rankings, up from 213 last year. JUST Capital considered 951 companies in its JUST 100 rankings review.
Since 2016, JUST Capital has ranked the largest, publicly traded U.S. corporations. Each year, it conducts comprehensive polling of what Americans prioritize when it comes to just business behavior and researches how the country’s largest corporations measure up.
“United Rentals has long recognized the value of working together with our employees, customers and communities to find solutions with a shared commitment to service, safety and sustainability,” said Craig Pintoff, executive vice president & chief administrative officer, United Rentals. “We foster a Work United approach in our pursuit of environmental stewardship and to generate long-term value for our stakeholders.”
Read the most recent United Rentals Corporate Responsibility Report to learn more about the company’s ESG strategy and initiatives. The report addresses all major aspects of United Rentals’ corporate responsibility initiatives, including its commitment to reduce the intensity of its greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent by 2030.
United Rentals, Inc. is the largest equipment rental company in the world. and is headquartered in Stamford, Conn. Additional information about United Rentals is available at unitedrentals.com.
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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.