Western Global, a leading provider of portable tanks and dispensing equipment for the storage and handling of fuels, diesel exhaust fluid, lubricants and other fluids, recently announced the appointment of Jeff Lowe as president of Western Global - North America.
Lowe has been with Western Global since 2021 and has been a key member of the management team, which has already delivered significant growth during this time. Before joining the business, he built his expertise in sales and business development in the industrial products space, most recently with Ingersoll Rand.
“It’s great for our business that we have people such as Jeff to promote into new management roles as a result of exceptional company growth over the past four years,” said Clem Connor, Western Global CEO. In his new role, Lowe will lead the North American business, which is the largest and fastest-growing division within the group. The group's overall revenues exceeded $100 million in 2024.
“I’m honored to take on this role for Western Global and lead an established team to greater heights,” said Lowe. “Our products are the gold standard in on-site storage for both the equipment rental and fuel distribution industries. There remains tremendous potential to continue the adoption of our products on infrastructure sites all over the country.”
Learn more at western-global.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.