Last week, investment company Sverica International, with offices in San Francisco, Boston and Montreal, finalized its acquisition of Phoenix-based Arizona Tents & Events and Tucson, Ariz.-based Party Concepts. Terms were not disclosed...
As we begin our 25th year publishing Special Events Magazine, each month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones...
WHAT started as a terrible day at the office turned out to be a terrific career move for Michael Berk. The president of Carol Stream, Ill.-based M&M The Special Events Co. recalls the momentous occasion this way: “One day in 1980 I woke up on the...
FROM 1982 to 1997, Daniel Kaplan served as president of Hertz Equipment Rental Corp., the largest industrial and construction-equipment rental company in the world, and helped the company grow from $58 million in sales to more than $500 million...
IT'S Clear: The event rental industry is bullish on business in 2007. A total of 76 percent of respondents to this year's Special Events Magazine event rental survey predict they will handle more events this year than in 2006 — the most optimistic...
QUITE simply, “Dirt means increased labor costs,” as Matt Holt, vice president of Flemington, N.J.-based Celebration Party Rental, puts it...
Torrance, Calif.-based Aztec Tents announced last week that owner Chuck Miller will resume his full-time role as company president and will resign his post as president of Classic Tents, the event rental outlet he has overseen for the past 13...
THE days of tool-rental shops offering a small selection of party accessories on the side are gone. Party rental companies are worth money, and nobody knows that better than the businesses acquiring them. Here, rental professionals — both chains...
As we begin our 25thyear publishing Special Events Magazine, each month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones...
