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With myriad shapes and materials, tents continue to evolve
March 1st, 2025
A Keder Garden Tent at a wedding, featuring vertical glass walls, a 9-foot door with 5-foot pulls, a 25-by-10-meter (82-by-32-foot) pergola and a printed marquee. Image: Fred’s Tents & Canopies While traditional tent styles are always popular with consumers, there also are numerous requests for new and different event venues. As a result, tent and […]
Riding out the crisis
November 1st, 2021
Select Event Group built this semi-permanent structure for the Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. Photo: Paul Corgan, Select Event Group. Tent and event rental companies have weathered tough times before. Most recently in 2008 when the economy tanked, the industry dug deep to keep afloat as clients cut back expenditures and events were […]
Tent CARES Day honors pandemic workers
November 1st, 2020
Tent manufacturers and rental businesses around the U.S. celebrated the frontline workers of the COVID-19 pandemic on Aug. 29 with barbeques, food truck fare and lots of sweet treats. TLC Rents celebrated Tent CARES Day by serving up a barbeque lunch for Atlanta, Ga.-area frontline workers. Photo: TLC Rents. Independent Tent CARES Day events were […]
U.S. tent and structure manufacturers unite with the special events industry to address the COVID-19 pandemic
April 3rd, 2020
The special events industry stands poised to address surging capacity needs of the U.S. health care infrastructure. Ten of the major U.S. tent and structure manufacturers have joined together in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The principal strategy of the group is to align needs for disaster resources including field hospitals, emergency temporary shelters, […]