What were the most-read rental stories of 2025?

Murray Pollok Managing Editor, IRN & Director of Content, KHL

18 December 2025

International Rental News (IRN) published hundreds of news stories and interviews during 2025, and the end-of-year list of the ‘most read’ items is always intriguing.

The list tells you what our global audience found most interesting and throws up some occasional surprises, such as the fact that  the most-read story this year concerned a mega-acquisition that never happened.

Here are the top 10 stories, with some background, plus the next 10 most-read:

United Rentals to acquire H&E in $4.8bn deal
Ironic that our most popular story was about an acquisition that didn’t happen. Ultimately, it was Herc Rentals that won the tussle to buy H&E, but it was…

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