Rent-A-Center Donates Furniture to Harvey-Affected Houston, Sends Water and Supplies to Coworkers Affected by Hurricane Maria
October 23 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Rent-A-Center, Inc., (RAC) a rent-to-own industry leader,
recently furnished 44 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments,
teaming up with Houston’s Tarantino Properties Inc., a management
firm offering low-rent apartments to those displaced after
Hurricane Harvey.
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Rent-A-Center coworker delivers donated
furniture to apartments where Harvey evacuees are being placed.
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After assessing available apartments, Tarantino worked quickly
to contact several companies for discounted furniture packages.
When they called Rent-A-Center, corporate leaders offered to
instead donate the furniture to help those hit hard by the
flooding.
“We have furnished all the apartments to the point where they
are now move-in ready so people can walk through the door with
nothing but the clothes on their back,” said Jonathan Parks, V.P.
of Logistics and Distribution for RAC. “As a former Houstonian, I
am thrilled that we as a company are able to help in a dire time of
need.”
Earlier this month RAC also shipped two ocean containers with
40,000 bottles of water and much needed food and supplies to Puerto
Rico to aid coworkers affected by Hurricane Maria. The ocean
containers, which arrived last week, were distributed amongst all
coworkers immediately to help meet their needs.
Rent-A-Center also teamed up with Caribbean Shipping Services to
support Hunger Fight, a non-profit based in Florida that provides
pre-packaged, nutritionally balanced meals to those in need.
Rent-A-Center coworkers from Jacksonville, Fla., helped package the
meals and load them on ocean containers heading to Puerto Rico. As
of today, about 30,000 packaged meals were en route.
“On behalf of all Puerto Rico coworkers, MUCHAS GRACIAS,” wrote
Efrain Maldonado, Regional Director for RAC Puerto Rico, in an
email to company leadership. “Our coworkers truly appreciate the
fact that our company has continued our full pay since the
hurricane, even though most of our stores were damaged and very few
are open 4 weeks later. Everywhere I go I let people know what RAC
has done for me and my team. People need to know that this is a
great company and we live by our mission. Our road to recovery has
begun. Like I tell my coworkers, ‘One day at a time.’”
About Rent-A-Center
A rent-to-own industry leader, Plano, Texas-based,
Rent-A-Center, Inc., is focused on improving the quality of life
for its customers by providing them the opportunity to obtain
ownership of high-quality, durable products under flexible rental
purchase agreements with no long-term obligation. For additional
information about the Company, please visit our website at
www.rentacenter.com.
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Rent-A-Center, Inc.Gina Hethcock, 972-801-1424Sr. Manager,
Public and Community Relations
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