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American Lift & Handlers is looking for your company's rental history - deadline is April 30.

A new report into the UK’s plant hire market forecasts a 6% fall in revenues in 2010 to follow the almost 22% drop last year, with a very slow recovery starting in 2011. The report forecasts that revenues in 2014 will still be more than 20% down on the market peak of 2007.

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Catherine Stratton, author of the respected Plant Hire Investment Report, said the UK plant hire sector was facing one year or more of further decline in demand and that a rising level of business failures was the likely result.

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A specially extended version of the IRN100 survey is now available from KHL Group.

The latest IRN100 survey of the world’s top 100 equipment rental companies – covering the year 2008 - reveals an industry in transition between boom times and the current recession.

International Rental News (IRN) and the European Rental Association (ERA) are jointly launching a quarterly rental confidence tracker to monitor business sentiment in Europe’s rental sector.

The UK equipment rental market will decline by 12% over the 2009-2010 period following an 8% fall in 2008, with a flat 2011 and limited recovery in 2012-13, according to the latest market study by AMA Research, the UK research body.

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) released a report highlighting the state of the US access rental industry at The Rental Show on March 3 in Atlanta

The European equipment rental industry was worth €33.6 billion in 2008, a 2.8% decrease on the previous year, according to new research commissioned by the European Rental Association. The figure comprises €24.4 billion for rental of equipment without operators and €9.2 billion with operators.

The European Rental Association (ERA) has launching an online survey to discover what actions rental companies are taking on the issue of sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Rental company confidence worldwide has taken a significant hit following the banking/credit crisis, with the latest IRN Rental Confidence Survey finding that half of all surveyed companies will invest less in equipment next year and one in ten will close depots.

Please cooperate in our IRN Rental Confidence Survey. The survey will be published in the November/December issue of International Rental News.

Two offshore rental and service companies have successfully trialed technology that will allow them to track each other’s fleets in real time, creating a kind of ‘virtual asset pool’.

Jeff Eisenberg, IRN’s finance correspondent, looks at the how the financial benchmark numbers for the world’s top five rental companies have changed in the last year.

What has caused the dramatic fall in the share prices of major equipment rental companies, and what impact will it have? IRN’s finance correspondent, Jeff Eisenberg, reports.

IRN's financial correspondent Jeff Eisenberg looks at the stalled takeover of United Rentals by private equity form Cerberus, and concludes that United is still likely to be sold, but for a lower price.