QUITE simply, “Dirt means increased labor costs,” as Matt Holt, vice president of Flemington, N.J.-based Celebration Party Rental, puts it. And dirt comes in all forms. Stephen Thurston, manager of the tent division at Toronto-based Higgins Part...

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 mon...

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. As software supplier Solutions by Computer nears its silver anniversary, more than 2,400 businesses manage ...

ASK party rental operations, “How's business?” and you may have to wait for an answer. Why? They're too busy to reply. At Atlas Party Rentals in Boynton Beach, Fla., “Revenue has increased 400 percent in the last seven years and 75 percent in th...

LA BELLA Party Rental Co. announced the April 11 grand opening of its new Napa, Calif., location with invitations that declared: “We've Arrived.” And that arrival came in a stylish package — new digs that La Bella showed off at its soiree while s...

PRESIDENT of the newly renamed Marquee Event Group in Austin, Texas, Damon Holditch, CSEP, CERP, purchased his party rental business in 1985 and turned it into one of the top party rental companies in the area. In 2000, he painted all his trucks ...

QUESTION: What do you get when you take one real estate broker, add a love of at-home entertaining and a dash of entrepreneurial ambition? Answer: Charlie Feldbaum. The former college finance major and one-time stockbroker says it was his desire ...

WHEN business booms, a rental company can outgrow its showroom quickly, and while making a move is never easy, an investment in a special space can really pay off. Party Rental Ltd. discovered this when it relocated its New York showroom, which o...