Ramirent Plc’s board of directors has appointed Erik Bengtsson as CEO effective January 1, 2020. Erik Bengtsson has held the position of executive vice president of Sweden, group fleet and sourcing since Sept. 1, 2018. Bengtsson has a strong track record in the equipment rental industry, having previously been member of the Ramirent board of directors from March 2017 to August 2018, and having held various senior managerial roles in the industry since 2005. Erik Bengtsson will also become a member of the Loxam Group’s executive committee.
France-based Loxam acquired Ramirent earlier this year.
Until the appointment of a successor, Erik Bengtsson will continue in his current position in parallel to his new role.
Jukka Havia has been appointed deputy CEO of Ramirent Plc effective also January 1, 2020. He will report to Bengtsson. In light of the autonomy of the Ramirent Group, Jukka Havia’s role will consist of assisting Ramirent’s CEO and supervising group support functions. Jukka Havia joined Ramirent as Chief Financial Officer in April 2019.
The Ramirent head office will remain in Helsinki, Finland.
"We are pleased to announce the appointments of Erik and Jukka into their new roles within Ramirent's and Loxam’s executive management teams, said Ramirent’s chairman of the board Gérard Déprez. “Both of them are highly experienced, and together with the talented executive management team of Ramirent and its skilled employees, will continue to develop Ramirent in its markets. On behalf of the Loxam Group, I wish them both success in their new roles."
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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.