JLG Industries Inc has appointed David L Pugh to its board of directors. The appointment expands the JLG board to nine members. Mr Pugh is chairman and chief executive of Applied Industrial Technologies Inc, of Cleveland, OH, a distributor of industrial products and fluid power products and systems.

IRVINE, CA, United States - Toyota Material Handling USA (TMHU) has appointed Steve Bourdon as territory manager for the US south central region, including Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico, and portions of Arkansas, Missouri and Wyoming. Since 1990, Mr Bourdon was a finance manager for Toyota Financial Services (TFS). He worked with many of the same TMHU dealers he now represents as territory manager.