NEW STORES GIVE SMS RENTS A LARGER PRESENCE IN MONTREAL AND SURROUNDING REGION
SMS Rents has relocated both its Dorval and St. Bruno stores into new premises providing greatly increased floor space, plus expanded service capabilities.
MONTREAL, QC – SMS Rents (o/a “Location SMS” in Quebec) has been taking giant strides to establish a larger footprint in the Montreal region.
Two stores operated by SMS Rents in the west end of Montreal and the South Shore region, recently relocated to new and significantly larger premises. The store previously located in St. Bruno has moved to a newly constructed 9,400 sq. ft. facility in Brossard. The former Dorval location of SMS Rents has become one of the company’s largest equipment rental facilities, totaling 19,000 sq. ft., and is now located in Saint-Laurent.
According to Nicolas Gagnon, the SMS Rents Regional Manager in Quebec, both locations offer the company much more than additional floor and yard space. “These locations will help us to better serve our growing customer base in the area,” he claims. “Both stores are highly visible on major traffic routes. They make us more accessible to customers who are coming into the store for supplies and equipment; they also give our delivery drivers quicker access to the main roads and out to the customers’ jobsites.”
The new SMS Rents store in Brossard, managed by Marc Dubé, was built to suit the SMS Rents’ rental operation. Gagnon is very pleased with the result. “We simply outgrew our old location,” he says. “Fitting our needs into the available space was increasingly difficult. Now we have a highly efficient layout, designed to meet our current and future plans to grow the business.” Along with the showroom and service areas, the two-storey Brossard building provides for additional inventory storage and training areas.
In Saint-Laurent, the store managed by Victor Carlos, now boasts several new service bays and wash bays, fully equipped with exhaust systems and tools to service the store’s rental fleet, as well as customers’ equipment. “This will be a very useful facility for SMS Rents’ customers,” Gagnon explains. “Customers can bring in their own equipment for maintenance and repairs, and take away a rental unit to work on their project until the service work is completed. We’re very proud of our equipment technicians here. You know the kind of use that a rental fleet gets - our crew has seen it all! They really know how to troubleshoot quickly and get the equipment back to work.”
Acquiring the two new stores is an important step forward in the long range plans of SMS Rents. President Marcel Langlois sees them as the base for an expanding network of rental stores in the region. “These stores have the facilities to operate as support hubs for additional sales and service locations reaching a broader regional market. They truly reflect the one-stop vision we have always had for SMS Rents, with equipment, tools and supplies, as well as being an expert resource for technical support and training. With our plan in place, our Quebec team was ready to move effectively when the opportunities appeared for us to take on these locations.”
About SMS Rents
SMS Rents is the fastest growing family of rental locations in Canada serving customers in the Construction, Industrial and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) markets providing project solutions with a complete selection of equipment and tools. Today, with 15 locations in Ontario and Quebec, SMS Rents is committed to bringing their customers a Job Ready attitude to every stage of their business, large and small.
For additional information about SMS Rents, visit us at www.smsrents.com or contact Scott Marta at smarta@smsrents.com, 905-283-2780 x 232 / 1-877-329-6531.
December 2009
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