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9、World Rental Report: how big is the global rental market? The fastest growing rental companies from the IRN100 survey for 2009. How big is the global rental industry? Murray Pollok scans the available sources to provide a snapshot of the 2009 rental market and reports on some forecasts for Europe and North America. It is ironic - if understandable - that the best quality rental statistics are available from the worst performing markets, while data on the worlds high growth markets is extremely hard to get. This means that we can say with some certainty just how badly rental performed in North America and Europe last year, while the true extent of growth in markets like Brazil, Hong Kong or Saudi Arabia remains cloudy. That said, we have tried to compile data on as many rental markets as possible (see the tables of figures on these pages), although we have resisted the temptation to calculate a global rental market figure this year. This is because the figures we give on these pages are not all measured in the same way (the European Rental Association figures, for example, do not include party and events and are only for non-operated plant) and because the figures for markets including South America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific are very broad estimates for which there cannot be a high degree of confidence. Lets look at the developed markets first. In figures released in December last year, the American Rental Association and its consultant, IHS Global Insight, said the US rental market peaked at over US$36 billion in 2007 and 2008 before falling back to around $30 billion in 2009. At that time it was forecasting a further fall this year to around $27.5 billion. As we show on Figure 1, however, the ARA is forecasting a modest return to growth next year before accelerating away in 2012. It is expecting total revenues in the US to exceed the 2007 peak by 2014. This growth is reflected also in the ARAs projections for growth in Capital Expenditure (on constructio