Most companies have had to lay people off Cut back on hours as well as any spending. Day-to-day business processes have been streamlined down so that you can do more with less. Now that the economy is on somewhat of an upswing, how will you be able to do even more with less? The upswing [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Emerging from a Perfect Storm with rentalresult
Monday 21 February 2011
Increase your profits
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Five ways to automate your way to a bigger bottom line The equipment rental industry, like many others, deals with a lot of complex, labor and information intensive business processes. Today’s technologies create opportunities to reduce the amount of effort and increase accuracy for many different processes. This article explores five different ways you can [...]
If your equipment could talk…
Monday 7 February 2011
Telematics in the Rental Industry If your equipment could talk, what would it tell you, what would you actually hear, and what would you do about it? Enter telematics and rental management system integration. Telematics is the technology that combines communication and information to monitor and report on machines like construction equipment and vehicles. It [...]
Rental industry expects rebound in 2011
Tuesday 1 February 2011
A large majority of rental store owners and managers — more than 80 percent — expect 2011 to be a much better year than 2010 according to the latest quarterly American Rental Association (ARA) Economic Survey of members. More than 34 percent of ARA general members responding to the survey expect rental revenues to show [...]
Caterpillar 4Q10 Revenues Leap 62 Percent, Full-year Profit Triples
Tuesday 1 February 2011
Caterpillar Inc. last week announced sales and revenues of $42.588 billion for 2010, an increase of 31 percent from $32.396 billion in 2009. Profit in 2010 was $2.7 billion, an increase of 202 percent from 2009 profit of $895 million. Profit per share of $4.15 was up from $1.43 in 2009. Fourth-quarter sales and revenues [...]
