15.10.2021

New MD for Mr Plant Hire

UK based rental company Mr Plant Hire has a new managing director in the form of Steven King.

King joins the company from glass handling and spider crane sales and rental company GGR, where he has been sales and commercial director for the past nine months - see: New sales director for GGR.
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Steven King

He began his career with Ashtead owned A-Plant - now Sunbelt Rentals - having joined as a branch manager in 1997, before moving up through various sales and operations roles, including six and half years as a senior manager in the powered access division. He left in 2018 to join cabin/modular space rental company Elliot as head of sales and then business development director. During his time at Ashtead and Elliot he worked with Gavin Pitt, chief executive of Mr Plant Hire owner AER Rents, which also owns Mainline Hire and is controlled by the O’Flaherty family though Hailstone Holdings.