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RENTAL AWARDS/IRE PREVIEW
IRN JANUARY 2014
The 2014 European
Rental Awards will be
held at the RAI exhibition
centre in Amsterdam on
25 June, 2014, during
the International Rental
Exhibition (IRE) and
the European Rental
Association’s annual
convention.
Murray Pollok reports.
Event details
EUROPEAN RENTAL AWARDS
Wednesday 25 June, 2014
Elicium Centre, Amsterdam RAI
CONTACT:
Submit award entries before 21 February to:
Murray Pollok, Editor,
IRN
E-mail:
Tel: +44 (0)1505 850 043
ORGANISER:
The European Rental Awards are jointly organised
by the European Rental Association and
International Rental News
.
EUROPEAN RENTAL
ASSOCIATION (ERA)
CONVENTION
Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 June, 2014
Elicium Centre, Amsterdam RAI
CONTACT:
Michel Petitjean, ERA secretary general
Tel: +33 1 45 74 66 03
E-mail:
ORGANISER:
The European Rental Association (ERA)
convention is organised by the ERA.
INTERNATIONAL RENTAL
EXHIBITION (IRE)
Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 June, 2014
Hall 2, Amsterdam RAI
Europaplein, NL 1078 GZ
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
INFORMATION AND SPACE BOOKING:
Ms. Gerdi Hondebrink
B.V. Industrial Promotions International (IPI)
Tel.: +31 (0)547 27 15 66
E-mail:
SALES MANAGER:
Lynn Collett
KHL Group
Tel: +44 (0)1892 786219
E-mail:
ORGANISER:
The IRE exhibition is organised by Industrial
Promotions International (IPI) in association
with
IRN
.
T
he judging panel for the 2014 European Rental
Awards has now been finalised and as in past
years includes a good mix of senior rental
and manufacturing expertise, with three rental
company CEOs and an experienced JCB executive.
The full list is the judges is as follows - see also
the box story below:
■
Claudio Fiorentini (Managing Director -
Target
About the judges
CLAUDIO FIORENTINI (Managing Director - Special Projects, JCB Sales)
Mr Fiorintini is a long-time senior executive with JCB in Europe. He joined JCB’s Italian
business in 1987 as marketing director, rising to managing director in 1995, a post he
kept for almost 14 years before becoming president of JCB Spa and managing director of
European sales.
PEDRO LUIS FERNANDEZ (CEO, GAM Alquiler, Spain)
Mr Fernandez is founder, CEO and chairman of GAM, the largest rental company in Spain,
which recently celebrated its 10th year in business. As well as its operations in Spain, GAM
rents equipment in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South and Central America.
SAT DHAIWAL (CEO, A-Plant, UK)
Mr Dhaiwal has been chief executive officer of A-Plant and a director of Ashtead group
since March 2002. He was managing director of A-Plant East, one of A-Plant’s four
operational regions, from May 1998 to March 2002, having joined the company in 1993.
VESA KOIVULA (ERA president & CEO, Cramo, Finland)
Appointed president of the European Rental Association last summer, succeeding Gerard
Deprez, Mr Koivula is also CEO of Cramo, a position he has held since 2003.
MURRAY POLLOK (Editor,
IRN
).
Mr Pollok has been editor of
IRN
magazine since its launch and has been writing about the
rental industry for 20 years.
