Preferred Lease is the combined business model of AcceptanceNOW's staffed lease-to-own business with Merchants Preferred's virtual lease-to-own business. After acquiring Merchants Preferred, Rent-A-Center unveiled its integrated retail partner offering, Preferred Lease. In August 2019, Rent-A-Center completed the acquisition of Merchants Preferred, a nationwide provider of virtual lease-to-own services.
In January 2018, Mark Speese stepped down as CEO and was succeeded by former president Mitchell Fadel. Rent-A-Center CFO Robert Davis served as CEO from January 2014 to January 2017, when Mark Speese returned as interim CEO. Mark Speese retired as Rent-A-Center CEO at the end of January 2014. The kiosks transitioned to the AcceptanceNOW brand in January 2014. operates lease-to-own kiosks within third-party retail locations across the country. Launched in 2006, under the brand name RAC Acceptance, Rent-A-Center, Inc. With 123 Mexico stores as of December 2019, Rent-A-Center is continuing its expansion in Mexico. Given that the acquisition resulted in over-penetration in some markets, Rent-A-Center carried out the closing or merging of 282 stores between 20. The Rent-Way store acquisition program brought the store total to 3,535 stores. At the time of the acquisition, Rent-Way was ranked number three in the rent-to-own industry with 782 stores in 34 states.
on 15 November 2006, for a price of approximately $600.3 million. Rent-A-Center completed its acquisition of competitor Rent-Way, Inc. In May 2004, Rent-A-Center completed the acquisitions of Rainbow Rentals, Inc. In March 2004, Rent-A-Center commenced operating in Canada with the acquisition of five stores located in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta. In February 2003, Rent-A-Center acquired 295 stores from Rent-Way, Inc. In 2001, Talley retired and Speese was appointed as Rent-A-Center's Chairman and CEO. and began operating all of its stores under the "Rent-A-Center" brand name. On 31 December 1998, Renters Choice changed its name to Rent-A-Center, Inc. In August 1998, Renters Choice acquired Thorn Americas, Inc., which operated 1,474 stores in 49 states and the District of Columbia under the name "Rent-A-Center". Renters Choice went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1995 under the symbol "RCII". and certain related entities of an 84 store rent-to-own chain operating in 12 states. in December 1993, in connection with the acquisition from DEF Investments, Inc. Vista Rent-To-Own changed its name to Renters Choice, Inc. In 1987, Thorn EMI acquired Rent-A-Center for $594 million. Ernest Talley then joined Vista Rent-To-Own as chairman of the board of directors in 1989 and remained Chairman through Vista's transition to Rent-A-Center. Speese and a colleague left Rent-A-Center and started a competing business known as Vista Rent-To-Own. Mark Speese joined Rent-A-Center in 1979. Frank Barton and founded the Rent-A-Center brand in Wichita, Kansas in 1973. T's rental, recognized the potential of renting name-brand products and partnered with W.
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T's Rental, that they had rented a washer and dryer for a long enough duration that they had paid for it in full and now owned it. The rent-to-own business was started by Ernie Talley in Wichita, Kansas during the 1960s when he told customers of his store, Mr. On February 22, 2023, the company changed its corporate name from Rent-A-Center, Inc. In 2014, Fortune Magazine listed Rent-A-Center at number 711 on the Fortune 1000 list of the largest U.S. Its franchisees operate 162 rent-to-own stores in 31 states under the Rent-A-Center and ColorTyme brand names, and the company's wheels-and-tires franchise brand, RimTyme, operates 31 stores in 13 states. (RACFI), formerly known as ColorTyme Inc., is America's first franchisor of independently owned-and-operated rent-to-own stores. Its subsidiary, Rent-A-Center Franchising International Inc. Rent-A-Center's operations include 24 retail installment stores called Get It Now (based in Wisconsin) 17 Home Choice stores in Minnesota and approximately 1,359 Acceptance Now kiosks housed within retail partner stores throughout the United States. The company was incorporated in 1986 and as of 2014 operates approximately 2,972 company-owned stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and Mexico, accounting for approximately 35% of the rent-to-own market in the United States based on store count. Rent-A-Center (commonly referred to as RAC) is an American public furniture and electronics rent-to-own company based in Plano, Texas.
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