This project was for First National Bank of Omaha highlighting their business customers. These stills were in support of documentary style videos about their business customers. This video featured Andy Stewart of Arapahoe Rental. Photos by Agricultural photographer Joshua Foo of Omaha Nebraska.
Stewart and his siblings took ownership of Arapahoe Rental together in 2013, becoming the next generation in their family’s long line of business owners and entrepreneurs.
“Arapahoe Rental has existed as a general rental store for over 50 years and spanned three separate ownership groups,” Stewart explained. “It ran as a one-store operation until 2004, when then-owners Jeff and Joel Henderson opened a second location in the small town of Windsor, Colorado. We purchased those two locations from the Hendersons in early 2013 and have been growing it ever since — totaling nine stores now,”
In the early 1900s, Stewart’s great-grandfather ran a grocery store in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and children. Decades later, Stewart’s parents and grandparents worked as business partners for over 30 years — and after retiring, it was their idea for Stewart and his siblings to start the next family enterprise.
“They pitched us the idea of finding a business ‘large enough to support us physically and financially’ in a place we would all enjoy living,” Stewart recalled.
In 2013 the siblings acquired Arapahoe Rental — and the rest, as they say, is history. While Stewart is proud of the growth the company has experienced in his time there, the customer experience has always remained Arapahoe Rental’s top priority.
“At our core, we’re just a small business focused on having positive experiences with every one of our customers,” Stewart said. “If you keep the focus on the customer, regardless of how large or small the company is, success will follow.” -FNBO Facebook
