The acquisition of DK Rental Belgium/France by the Lavendon group has been approved at a Lavendon EGM today.
10.12.2007
Palfinger has obtained approval from the Austrian and German anti-trust authorities for the takeover of MBB Liftsystems AG
07.12.2007
Lavendon has acquired Belgian based DK Rentals including its Spanish and French operations
13.11.2007
Palfinger has agreed a take over of MBB Liftsystems, one of the leading tail lift producers.
02.11.2007
Norweigian Aker ASA is to sell ABAS Crane and Aker Brattvaag Winch to ODIM
01.11.2007
William O’Brien, Ireland’s largest crane hire company, has undergone a change in ownership.
08.10.2007
The Lavendon Group has purchased Higher Platforms Group the midlands (UK) based powered access rental company.
06.08.2007
Ingersoll-Rand has sold its Bobcat business to Korea’s largest construction equipment maker, Doosan, for $4.9 billion in cash.
30.07.2007
Cerebus Capital Management has agreed to buy United Rentals the world’s largest rental company for $6.6 billion
23.07.2007
Euroloc, the Spanish based rental company has acquired Gruas Homs a Catalalonian based rental business
21.06.2007
Pon has confirmed its acquisition of Milcon and the management role af the Van Mils.
07.06.2007
Lavendon has been back on the acquisition trail buying Wizard Workspace, the company previously known as Independent Access Supplies.
04.06.2007
Miami based Neff corp the eighth largest rental company in North America has changed hands again, as Odyssey partners sells it to Lightyear capital.
05.04.2007
Malthus the privately owned Norwegian sales and rental company has acquired Liftbolaget, the Swedish distribution company.
16.03.2007
AmQuip has acquired Boston based Shaughnessy Crane Services from NES Rentals.
A management reshuffle is underway at PM group the Italian crane and access company
14.03.2007
Europe’s largest rental company, Loxam, has purchased Frances No 3, Laho from Barclays Private Equity. The third time it has been sold in six years.
08.03.2007
Italian aerial lift and rental company Venpa 3 has purchased crane manufacturer Locatelli.
16.02.2007
Odewald & Compagnie a Berlin based private equity company has acquired a majority stake in Mateco the second largest powered access rental company in Germany.
19.12.2006
Delhi-based Mobile crane and Aerial lift manufacturer, ACE, is close to completing an Eastern European acquisition
03.11.2006
Details have now been released concerning the merger of AFI and UpLift which was agreed earlier this week.
13.09.2006
News is just in that AFI, the Wakefield based access rental company, is to merge with UpLift also based in Wakefield
12.09.2006
SafeWorks, the parent of Power Climber and Spider has been sold to Wynnchurch Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm
08.09.2006
Further details on Ashtead's acquisition of NationsRent have been added to the story posted earlier today.
19.07.2006
