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BUSINESS PROFILES | MAY 2024 | HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL 19 Address: 77 Boston Road, Middletown, CT 06457 Phone: (888) GET-LIFT Fax: (860) 347-8410 Website: www.mazzottarentals.com Product or Service: Construction Equipment Sales, Service and Rentals Top Executive: Joseph J.Mazzotta, CEO No. of Employees: 100 Year Founded: 1963 (incorporated in 1990) Family-owned company poised for significant growth M azzotta Rentals was originally founded in 1963 as a construction company. Today, it is one of the largest and fastest growing independent equipment rental providers in New England, with three locations in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and plans for locations in New York and throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Mazzotta provides equipment rentals, sales and service to a wide variety of commercial, industrial, retail, residential and municipal customers. The company attributes its success directly to its dedicated employees, and their extraordinary commitment to high- quality, dependable service to the Mazzotta customer base. With one of the largest dedicated rental fleets in the region, Mazzotta offers a full line of aerial work platforms, telehandlers/forklifts, industrial fork trucks, rotating telehandlers, stock pickers, air compressors, generators and light towers, utility vehicles, and more. Recently, Mazzotta Rentals appointed Thomas Caldaroni as its new Chief Administrative Officer. Caldaroni has held numerous leadership roles with operational and financial responsibilities for Fortune 500 companies, including DaimlerChrysler, Pitney Bowes and Terex Corporation, as well as smaller and medium-sized enterprises. Most recently, Caldaroni served as CFO of ABLE Equipment Rentals Inc. of New York. Additionally, Mazzotta Rentals has appointed Chris Pera as COO. Pera recently oversaw the growth and transformation of ABLE Equipment Rentals Inc., positioning the organization for expansion by implementing systems and metrics that provided remarkable success to the company's operational performance. Furthermore, he founded the HiReach Group LLC, a startup aerial lift rental company acquired by Sunbelt Rentals just two years after formation, and he has held numerous key leadership roles in the equipment rental industry, including regional manager for Sunbelt Rentals, and president of Modern Equipment Sales & Rentals. "Chris and Tom bring strong financial and operational skills, key industry relationships, and a demonstrated successful strategic leadership approach, which will be vital as we continue to execute our existing growth plans throughout the Northeast and into the mid-Atlantic region," said Joseph J. Mazzotta, CEO of Mazzotta Rentals. Today, the company is managed full-time by the second generation of the Mazzotta family, whose members share a common vision of growth and prosperity by providing unsurpassed customer service, along with the best equipment to get the job done. Mazzotta is an authorized Magni dealer.