United Rentals Selected to Time’s World’s Best Companies 2023 List
United Rentals, the world's largest equipment rental company, was selected to the Time World's Best Companies 2023 list. The award recognizes United Rentals as among the top-performing companies across the globe. The World's Best Companies list includes a wide range of industries such as retail, manufacturing, engineering, automotive and services. United Rentals is the highest-ranked equipment rental company on the list.
Time conducted the new annual index in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. To create the list, Statista evaluated companies based on three primary dimensions: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability. The research included survey data from approximately 150,000 employees worldwide, company revenue growth data for the last three years and evaluating environmental, social and governance dimensions.
"The Time World's Best Companies recognition reflects how we are delivering on our commitment to building a better future together," said Matthew Flannery, CEO, United Rentals. "We are grateful to all our stakeholders who helped us build an ethical, sustainable and successful business, especially our 25,000 team members who ‘Work United’ every day to get the job done.”
United Rentals adds this award to its list of accolades in the last year including: Glassdoor Employee’s Choice, America’s Best Managed Companies and 2023 VETS Indexes 5 Star Employer.
United Rentals, Stamford, Conn., is No. 1 on the RER 100.
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.