Vandalia Rental Holds Grand Opening at New Columbus, Ohio, Branch
Vandalia Rental, a construction equipment rental company with headquarters in Vandalia, Ohio, recently held a grand opening event at its new Columbus, Ohio, location. The event included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, a team meet-and-greet, food, beverages, equipment demonstrations and gift basket raffles.
A large group of contractors and government officials attended the grand opening of the branch. Ohio House of Representatives minority leader Allison Russo of the 24th District aided the Vandalia Rental team with the ribbon-cutting event.
“We’re excited to be here in Columbus, with a terrific location in central Ohio to provide equipment solutions and be a part of the community,” said Jimmy Hassan, director of sales for Vandalia Rental. “As you can see, our reputation has created a bustling operation and for us to support many of Ohio’s largest projects.”
Russo took the opportunity to share a proclamation from the statehouse with third-generation owner and president of Vandalia Rental Kurt Barney.
“It’s the ideal location to conveniently serve the equipment rental needs of contractors and equipment rental clients in central Ohio,” Barney said. “Vandalia Rental prides itself on personalized service. We are anxious to provide our exceptional service to the Columbus area community and allow customers to experience rental the way it should be.”
Focusing on the general construction contractor community in Columbus, Vandalia Rental will support its equipment rental needs with boom lifts, backhoes, air compressors, forklifts, track loaders, excavators, generators, scissor lifts and many more items. The Columbus location is open from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. It can be reached at https://vandaliarental.com.
Vandalia Rental has served the greater Dayton, greater Columbus and greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky markets since 1961. Vandalia Rental’s seven locations service construction rental partners ranging from small businesses to large publicly traded corporations, government agencies, and municipalities throughout the Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky regions. The company is No. 78 on the RER 100.
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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.