Rent-A-Center (commonly referred to as RAC, Rent-A-Centre in Canada) is an American public furniture and electronics rent-to-own company based in Plano, Texas. The company was incorporated in 1986 and as of 2011 operates approximately 3,074 company-owned stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico, accounting for 35% of the rent-to-own market in the United States based on store count.