5/6/2009 Volvo Rents Opens Fifth Rental Center in Arizona

Nick Mavrick

Volvo Construction Equipment Rents, Inc. (Volvo Rents), has announced the opening of a new Volvo Rents equipment rental center in Show Low, Arizona. It is the company’s fifth independent family-owned and operated rental center in the state; others are in Tucson, Eloy, Miami and Thatcher.

Arizona Equipment Rental 1, LLC, owned by franchise principals Jeff Bleecker and Lance Evic, opened its first Volvo Rents center in Tucson in 2005.  The new Volvo Rents center located at 1500 N 16th Street, Show Low, will carry, in addition to Volvo construction equipment, a comprehensive line of essential equipment and tools for the construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets.

“We are thrilled to expand the business into the Miami and Globe area,” said Jeff Bleecker co-owner.

The Volvo Rents franchise program was designed by Volvo Construction Equipment and covers all aspects of an operating business model.  Features include use of the Volvo brand, financial assistance, a fleet purchasing program , a Volvo Rents proprietary software program, operational support and guidance, comprehensive training in systems, sales, service, and  management as well as facility design and regional and local marketing. Principal Volvo products for its rental centers include its extensive line of compact excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes and skid steer loaders.

Volvo Rents has eighty-three (84) equipment rental centers open in North America, seventy-nine (81) centers in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Poland and Austria), and one (1) in its international region (Mexico).
      
For further information, please contact:
Nick Mavrick 
Volvo  Rents, Inc.
Corporate/Marketing Communications 
One Volvo Drive  
Asheville, NC 28803 
Telephone:  828-279-4869 
nick.mavrick@volvo.com

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