Select Event Rentals promotes employee to president

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Select Event Rentals of Laurel, Md., has promoted Kelly Andres to president. Andres has been employed with Select for 13 years and will oversee operations in Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
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Losberger welcomes new sales team member

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Mike Crews has joined the sales team at Losberger. Crews will manage sales and operations in the western U.S. and will be based out of Evansville, Ind. He has over 17 years of inudstry experience and has specialized in clearspan structures for the last six years.
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Lenzip Manufacturing Corp. moves headquarters

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Lenzip Manufacturing Corp. has moved its headquarters to Rolling Meadows, Ill., a northwest suburb of Chicago. Lenzip was founded in 1946 in Chicago, where it has been located for over 60 years. The company needed more space for manufacturing and office activities. The new 77,000-square-foot facilit…
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Low Country Event Rentals moves to new facility

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Low Country Event Rentals has moved its Savannah, Ga., operations to a new facility on Waters Avenue. The new 8,000-square-foot location includes a new showroom and warehouse. Low Country’s South Carolina operations will continue from its facility in Bluffton. Low Country Event Rentals 8115 Wa…
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Denver Tent Co. moves in with sister company

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Denver Tent Co. is now located in a new 61,000-square-foot facility along with its sister company Colorado Party Rental. The new facility is around two miles from the company’s previous location. All contact numbers will remain the same. Denver Tent Co. 4200 Garfield Street Denver, CO 80216 Ph…
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Big Top Party Rental offers holiday decorating workshop

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Big Top Party Rental is offering a two-day training workshop to help tent rental companies add a holiday decorating business for winter profits. Bobby Cooper, president of Big Top Party Rental, started the Christmas Light People in 2002 to help manage off-season cash flow. His company provides holid…
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Eventective expands online venue search engine

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Eventective, a comprehensive meeting and event space search engine, has announced expanded capabilities for planners, including new search tools and a function that allows users to export venue lists. Users can look up a venue based on state, city, metro area, venue type, number of attendees, square…
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Award for Best Rental Management Software

August 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Orion Software and its flagship product, Sirius Pro, have received an award for the Best Rental Management Software from Rental & Staging magazine. The award was given at the InfoComm show in Los Angeles, Calif. “We’re very proud to receive this prestigious award on behalf of our who…
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Tents4Peace builds orphanage

July 1, 2007  |  Industry News

Tents4Peace International, a charity launched in 2005 to help sufferers of that year’s devastating earthquake in Pakistan, is set to open an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Tents4Peace project originally raised AUD$150,000 and sent more than 1,000 tents to victims of the 2005 earthquake. …
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Tent industry faces busy hurricane season

June 1, 2007  |  Industry News

A leading meteorology group has predicted 17 named storms this season for the Gulf Coast, including five major hurricanes. The projections include a 74 percent chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast. MSNBC.com reported that the predictions from Colorado State University&rsq…
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