Wall Street Journal Chooses United Rentals One of America’s Best-Managed Companies
United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment rental company, was named to The 250 Best-Managed Companies list by the Wall Street Journal. The ranking was developed by the Drucker Institute based on its holistic model for measuring corporate management effectiveness, which reviews performance across key business drivers.
The 250 Best-Managed Companies list, published annually since 2017, is one of the industry’s most prestigious corporate management awards. To determine the rankings, the Drucker Institute evaluated U.S. publicly traded companies on 35 corporate performance indicators using data inputs from third-party providers. The research included a new metric of a “digital positioning score,” which looked at a company’s activity, as compared to industry peers, across online search, website traffic, social media and its apps.
“This recognition as an industry leader is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our team to be the best rental partner for our customers,” said Matthew Flannery, president and CEO, United Rentals. “We have a relentless commitment to helping our customers safely build a better and stronger future, while also providing long-term value for all of our stakeholders.”
Information on career opportunities can be found on the United Rentals Careers website. Based in Stamford, Conn., United Rentals 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.