Hollywood, Fla.-based Durante Equipment is ranked No. 1,338 on the 2024 Inc. 5000, the annual list of the fastest-growing privately owned companies in America. Durante’s three-year growth rate of 386 percent earned rankings in the following categories and generated 27 new jobs for the local South Florida community:
· No. 71 in Construction
· No. 142 in Florida
· No. 1,338 Overall
The ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle, Patagonia, and many other household-name brands gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"We are incredibly proud to be recognized as one of America's fastest-growing independent companies,” said CEO John Durante. “This achievement is a testament to the resilience and dedication of our entire Durante Equipment team. Opening just weeks before the COVID shutdown, we faced countless challenges over the past five years. Yet, through it all, our team has fought every day to make us the best in South Florida, and this recognition highlights their unwavering commitment to excellence and growth."
The Inc. 5000 class of 2024 represents companies that have driven rapid revenue growth while navigating inflationary pressure, the rising costs of capital, and seemingly intractable hiring challenges. Among this year’s top 500 companies, the average median three-year revenue growth rate is 1,637 percent. In all, this year’s Inc. 5000 companies have added 874,458 jobs to the economy over the past three years. To see the entire Inc. 5000 list, go to www.inc.com/inc5000.
Durante Equipment’s management team has 35 years of combined experience. It offers equipment rentals, sales, parts, and service to a wide range of customers within Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties, with an inventory of aerial lifts, contractor tools, and forklifts to excavators, generators, and skid steer loaders. Durante Equipment is an authorized dealer Dynapac, LiuGong, Wacker Neuson, Multiquip and others. For more information, visit www.duranteequip.com.
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.