NEWS & KHL.COM ROUND-UP
Loxam makes Nordic move; United makes fleet export plan; Manitou appoints ex-Fraikin CEO; judges appointed for European Rental Awards; Speedy investigates accounting irregularities; IRN Rental Share Index; plus other news from the world’s rental sector.

KEVIN APPLETON COLUMN
Going international with a rental business is about more than getting dots on a map, says Kevin Appleton. So what are the key ingredients of an international strategy?

INTERVIEW: LOIS BOYD HERTZ EQUIPMENT RENTAL CORP (HERC)
Lois Boyd tells IRN about juggling priorities at a business that is growing fast in North America and facing enormousopportunities in markets like China and the Middle East.

NTERVIEW: COLIN NAYLOR, SPEEDY HIRE
Colin Naylor, operations director of Speedy Services, explains the company’s new depot strategy, and talks about the justopened Multi Service Centre in Glasgow, UK.

ERA PAGE
Vesa koivula, president of the European Rental Association (ERA), in his New Year message, says rental companies have to be ready to take advantage of changes in the rental operating environment.

RENTAL MANAGEMENT: PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeff Eisenberg analyses how the involvement of private equity companies has evolved over the years and highlights some of the most significant recent equity deals.

FACES & PLACES

PRODUCTS/SERVICES DIRECTORY

EUROPEAN RENTAL AWARDS/INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
As the judging panel for the rental awards is announced, IRN previews the European Rental Awards, ERA Convention and International Rental Exhibition (IRE), all taking place in Amsterdam on 24-26 June, 2014.

PRODUCT FEATURE: POWER GENERATION
Rental companies like products that are designed with rental in mind, and that is doubly true of the power generation market. Murray Pollok reports on a very dynamic product category.

RENTAL SOFTWARE: CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud computing gives rental companies the opportunity to reduce investment in IT hardware and easily connect multiple sites, so why