Atlas Copco Rental Service Unveils Shared PRIME and RSC Web Site.Business Editors SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2000 The launch of a joint web site signals the first step in creating a rental powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. with two familiar names- RSC RSC Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) RSC Royal Shakespeare Company RSC Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (Spanish: corporate social responsibility) RSC Royal Society of Canada and PRIME. The new web site www.rentalservice.com marks the first series of enhancements in the newly formed Rental Service Corporation. The site boasts helpful tools for supporting customers' industrial and construction rental needs. "This effort is just the beginning of our corporate initiative to develop a web site with e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. service innovations that serve both the RSC construction focus and the PRIME industrial focus," says Ellen Steck, Vice President of e-commerce for the Rental Service business area (RSBA). "The flagship site confirms our continued commitment to technology and the e-focused community." The site boasts helpful tools for supporting customers with both industrial and construction rental needs. Highlights include: -- "Click-to-Connect" Technology provides real-time interaction between visitors and RSC and PRIME customer service representatives. Escorted browsing enables the user to be directed through the site and share screen images with a customer service representative. -- The enhanced mapping feature offers easy access to all RSC and PRIME locations. Upon entering www.rentalservice.com visitors can view the expansive geographic canvas of combined RSC and PRIME store locations including driving instructions. -- As first in the industry, individual store pages offer customers an opportunity to view store locations, e-mail to store managers, open hours, as well as contact names and local event information. "It's all about our customers," explains Steck. "Bringing customers the best in benefits and economies has always been a focus at RSC and PRIME. This is especially clear in our on-line initiatives, with both technological advancements and industry foresight (graphics, tool) Foresight - A software product from Nu Thena providing graphical modelling tools for high level system design and simulation. , we continue to find new and better ways to serve our valued customers." With decades of experience under their belts, the RSC and PRIME brands are working under one corporate umbrella focusing on their two individual brand strengths to best serve construction and industrial customers. RSC and PRIME offer an array of services, including a wide range of the newest equipment, computer software to help customers with their rental fleets, highly-trained field personnel, palmtops for sales staff to track customer activity, on-site tool rooms and mobile tool trailers. Rental Service Corporation is a company within the Atlas Copco Atlas Copco is a Swedish industrial company that was founded in 1873. It manufactures industrial tooling and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group, founded already in 1873, is a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Group, an international conglomerate conglomerate, in business conglomerate, corporation whose asset growth, often very rapid, comes largely through the acquisition of, or merger with, other firms whose products are largely unrelated to each other or to that of the parent company. of industrial companies with its head office in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1999, the group had revenues of approximately $4.2 billion (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ), with 97 percent of revenues outside Sweden, and over 26,000 employees. Atlas Copco companies develop, manufacture, and market electric and pneumatic tools pneumatic tool (n  măt`ĭk), instrument activated by air pressure. Pneumatic tools are designed around three basic devices: the air cylinder, the vane motor, and the sprayer. , compressed air compressed air, air whose volume has been decreased by the application of pressure. Air is compressed by various devices, including the simple hand pump and the reciprocating, rotary, centrifugal, and axial-flow compressors. equipment, generators, construction and mining equipment, assembly
systems, and offer related service and equipment rental. Additional
information about Atlas Copco is available at the group's Web site,
www.atlascopco-group.com, which provides access to current news about
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