Rent-A-Center
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 Rent-A-Center facts

• The company was incorporated in 1986 and as of 2014 operates approximately 2,972 company-owned stores in the United States, Canada, 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's operations include 28 retail installment stores called Get It Now (based in Wisconsin); 17 Home Choice stores in Minnesota; 15 rent-to-own stores in Canada that go by Rent-A-Centre and Better Living; and approximately 1,359 Acceptance Now kiosks housed within retail partner stores throughout the United States
• Its subsidiary, Rent-A-Center Franchising International Inc
• (RACFI), formerly known as ColorTyme Inc
• , is America's first franchisor of independently owned-and-operated rent-to-own stores
• 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
• In 2014, Fortune Magazine listed Rent-A-Center at number 711 on the Fortune 1000 list of the largest U
• S
• corporations, based on revenues alone
• Competitors include Aaron’s, Inc