As you may have heard, this year Cooper is celebrating 50 years in business. On June 15th we held an open house at all 55 branches across Canada. Our goal was to spend some quality time with our team, our families, our community partners and customers, breaking bread together and having some fun. 

Here are a few highlights from this special day.

Cooper was founded in 1972 by Gord Cooper in Markham, Ontario. Gord retired in 2003 and his son, Darryl Cooper, took over running the business operations. In 2010 Doug Dougherty joined Cooper Equipment Rentals to partner with Darryl Cooper. Since then, the dynamic duo have worked hard to grow Cooper’s operations from 4 branches to 55 branches, in 6 provinces across Canada! Cooper has also expanded to provide speciality equipment rental solutions with our Cooper Trench Safety and Cooper Pump Solutions divisions. 

For Cooper’s 50th anniversary year we decided to give back to the causes that we care about. Working with our vendor partners, Oaken Equipment and Brandt we painted 4 new Bobcat E50s and 4 John Deere 50Gs gold. We also painted a BBA pump gold and a 24’ trench shield – which was a lot more challenging that you’d think!  

The goal of the gold equipment campaign is to raise money for two foundations that are close to our hearts, Threads of Life and Movember. We set our fundraising goal for 2022 at $100,000 – stay tuned on our progress! 

If you’d like to join in our 50th anniversary fun, make sure you check out our social media channels. Each month we are sharing in the birthday fun by gifting you with cool Cooper swag. We have already given away Carhartt jackets, work boots, Rayban sunglasses and more! This month we are giving away two Yeti coolers! Keep checking our social channels and enter for the chance to win! 

The big prize giveaway for our birthday month in September, is 4 flights to anywhere in Canada, valued at $4,000! So be sure to keep an eye out for that! 

We are halfway through our birthday year and loving all the pictures that are being sent to us of our gold equipment working away in busy jobsites. If you #spotcoopergold make sure you send the photo to [email protected] or post to your social channels, tag Cooper and use the hashtag #spotcoopergold for the chance to win extra prizes!