HOLT CAT, the Caterpillar Equipment and Engine dealer for South, Central, North and North East Texas, has named J.K. Baxter Senior Vice President and General Manager, Machine Division.

In his new role, Baxter will be responsible for leading all sales and support operations for HOLT’s construction equipment division. Additional enterprises he will be responsible for include HOLT AgriBusiness, HOLT Crane & Equipment and SiTech Tejas.

Baxter received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management from Baylor University. In 2002 he joined HOLT as Financial Marketing Manager and in 2010 he was named General Manager of HOLT Crane & Equipment, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

About HOLT

HOLT CAT® sells, rents and services Caterpillar® machines, engines, generator sets and trucks in a 118-county Texas territory spanning from the Red River to the Rio Grande. HOLT offers total machine and engine rebuild capabilities, sells used equipment around the world and fabricates its own line of land clearing equipment and HOLT Spray King® water tankers. HOLT is the dealer for Link-Belt Cranes in the Eastern half of Texas as well as the El Paso area. They are the dealer for AGCO/Challenger and Claas farm equipment for the Eastern half of Texas and portions of Arkansas, Missouri and Louisiana. SITECH Tejas, another division of HOLT, is the authorized dealer for Trimble Heavy and Highway construction products and services, as well as AccuGrade grade-control products in the same 118 county territory of Texas.

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