Company type | Private |
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Founder | Pierre Boels Sr. |
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 830 [1] |
Area served | 27 countries (Europe) |
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Services | equipment rental |
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Owner | Pierre Boels Jr. |
Number of employees | 8,500 [4] |
Website | boels |
Boels Rental is an equipment rental company based in Sittard, Netherlands. According to its annual financial report and own website, as of 2024, the company has over 8,500 employees and over 830 branches in 27 European countries. Boels has over 865,000 rental items in its range. [5] [6]
The family business was founded in 1977 by Pierre Boels Sr. and has been managed by his son Pierre Boels Jr. since 1996. [7]
The company has been characterized by growth and numerous company takeovers since its founding. In 2020, the Scandinavian rental company Cramo was acquired for around 614 million euros. The takeover made Boels the second largest construction rental company in Europe. [8] [9]
In 2024, the Dutch aerial work platform (AWP) specialist Riwal was acquired, expanding the machine park by 20,000 items to a total of over 55,000 AWPs. The Riwal takeover also gave Boels locations in France and Spain for the first time, as well as its first non-European locations in India, Kazakhstan,UAE and Qatar. [10] [11]
From 2012 to 2020, Boels was (together with Dolmans Landscaping) title sponsor of the Boels–Dolmans Cycling Team, an UCI women's road cycling team. Key riders for the team included world champion and 2016 Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen and former world champions Chantal Blaak and Amalie Dideriksen. From 2013 Boels was also main sponsor of the Boels Ladies Tour and the Ardennes classics La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
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The 2014 Boels Ladies Tour also known as the 2014 Holland Ladies Tour is the 17th edition of the Holland Ladies Tour, a women's cycle stage race in the Netherlands. The tour is part of the 2014 women's road cycling calendar and will be held from 2 September to 7 September. The tour has six stages, it starts with an individual trial over 10.1 km (6.3 mi) in Tiel and concludes with a hilly stage in Limburg. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.1.
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The first edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes, a road cycling one-day race in Belgium, was held on 23 April 2017. It was the eighth event of the 2017 UCI Women's World Tour. The race started in Bastogne and finished in Ans, containing four categorized climbs and covering a total distance of 135.5 km. 139 riders started the race, 98 finished.
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