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
Ashtead, parent group of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in North America, is in detailed discussions to buy Nations Rent in the USA for $1billion
Alimak Hek has purchased the rental assets of Conrent, the Australian mast climber business, from Coates Hire Ltd.
11.07.2006
Hirepool the New Zealand general rental company with significant access and telehandler fleets has new owners.
10.07.2006
The Lavendon group has made its third major acquisition this year acquiring West country based AMP Access Ltd.
21.06.2006
NES Rentals, one of the world’s largest aerial lift rental companies is to be acquired by Diamond Castle Holdings, a New York based private equity company for $850 million.
28.05.2006
3B6 has been acquired by the Cobo group an Italian off-highway electronics and drive component producer.
24.05.2006
