Manitou Group Renews Michel Denis’ Contract as President and CEO
The board of directors of Manitou decided unanimously to renew the mandate of Michel Denis as president and CEO of Manitou Group for an additional four-year period.
Manitou's revenue and profits have increased during Denis' tenure.
The board of directors of Manitou decided unanimously to renew the mandate of Michel Denis as president and CEO of Manitou Group for an additional four-year period. Denis will remain in the position until the Annual General Assembly in 2022 that will approve the financial statements of 2021.
“We wish to thank Michel Denis for the work achieved since his arrival at Manitou in 2014,” said Jacqueline Himswork, president of the board. “Over this period, the group has experienced a strengthening of its market position, improved profitability, accelerated innovation and the introduction of many new services. All these achievements enabled the group to be able to project with confidence and ambition for the continuation of this development for the future.”
“It is a great honor to continue to lead the development of Manitou Group,” said Denis. “The work with the team of women and men of Manitou, our dealer network and our partners, allows us to offer products and solutions always more innovative and answering their needs.”
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.
