Takeuchi-US, a global leader in compact equipment, has hired Robert Vistad and Dillon Headden as regional business managers, effective immediately. Vistad will be based in the West region, while Headden will be located in the Mid-Atlantic region.
As regional business managers, Vistad and Headden’s main responsibilities include all sales development and activity within a multi-state territory. This includes, but is not limited to, dealer development, dealer recruitment, inventory control, collections (parts and machines), forecasting, program promotion and communication.
Vistad has both dealer and manufacturing experience. His last two positions included being a sales manager at an equipment dealership in San Diego, and a senior account manager for a construction equipment distributor.
“Robert has years of experience working in the manufacturing arena while working with dealers to satisfy the customers’ needs as well as drive efficiencies through the dealerships,” said Henry Lawson, director of sales at Takeuchi-US.
Headden was previously with a national rental company in South Carolina where he was a territory account manager.
“Dillon comes to us with an equipment retail background that will be valuable in helping our dealers work with our end user customers on applications and products,” said Lawson. “We are excited to have both Dillon and Robert join our team and I look forward to working beside them to deliver Takeuchi products to the marketplace.”
For more information on Takeuchi track loaders, wheel loaders, excavators or skid steers, visit www.takeuchi-us.com.
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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.