McGrath RentCorp Issues $60 Million Senior Notes a

LIVERMORE, Calif., Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- McGrath RentCorp (NASDAQ: MGRC ) (the "Company"), a diversified business to business rental company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement for the issuance of $60 million of 3.84% unsecured senior notes. The debt has a seven-year life with a maturity in November 2022. Proceeds from the offering will be used to reduce the outstanding balance on the Company's revolving credit line. The senior notes have been issued pursuant to the Company's amended $200 million note purchase and private shelf agreement with Prudential Investment Management, Inc.

Dennis Kakures, President and CEO stated, "We are very pleased to have secured this financing. While we will initially experience an increase in the average interest rate on our outstanding debt, we will also have greater interest rate certainty for 2016 and future years."

About McGrath RentCorp

Founded in 1979, McGrath RentCorp is a diversified business-to-business rental company. The Company's Mobile Modular division rents and sells modular buildings to fulfill customers' temporary and permanent classroom and office space needs in California, Texas, Florida, and the Mid-Atlantic from Washington D.C. to Georgia. The Company's TRS-RenTelco division rents and sells electronic test equipment and is one of the leading rental providers of general purpose and communications test equipment in the Americas. The Company's Adler Tank Rentals subsidiary rents and sells containment solutions for hazardous and nonhazardous liquids and solids with operations today serving key markets throughout the United States. In 2008, the Company entered the portable storage container rental business under the trade name Mobile Modular Portable Storage. Today, the business is located in the key markets of California, Texas, Florida, Northern Illinois, New Jersey and most recently entered the North Carolina region. For more information on McGrath RentCorp and its operating units, please visit our websites:

Corporate – www.mgrc.com Tanks and Boxes – www.AdlerTankRentals.com   Modular Buildings – www.MobileModularRents.com   Portable Storage – www.MobileModularRents-PortableStorage.com   Electronic Test Equipment – www.TRS-RenTelco.com   School Facilities Manufacturing – www.Enviroplex.com

Statements included herein may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements appear in a number of places. Such statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes", "expects", "may", "estimates", "will", "should", "plans" or "anticipates" or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary materially from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations are disclosed under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the Company's 10-K, 10-Q and other SEC filings.

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