First Trade Date for Deere & Company
| Company Name | First Trade Date (yyyy-mm-dd) |
| Deere & Company | 1933-06-29 |
| Company Name | Symbol |
| Deere & Company | DE |
| History and Business of Company (this information may include date of incorporation) | |
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Deere & Company (Company) and its subsidiaries (collectively called John Deere) have operations which are categorized into four major business segments. The agricultural equipment segment manufactures and distributes a full line of farm equipment and service parts - including tractors; combine, cotton and sugarcane harvesters; tillage, seeding and soil preparation machinery; sprayers; hay and forage equipment; material handling equipment; and integrated agricultural management systems technology. The commercial and consumer equipment segment manufactures and distributes equipment and service parts for commercial and residential uses - including small tractors for lawn, garden, commercial and utility purposes; walk-behind mowers; golf course equipment; utility vehicles; landscape and irrigation equipment; and other outdoor power products. The construction and forestry segment manufactures, distributes to dealers and sells at retail a broad range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, material handling and timber harvesting - including backhoe loaders; crawler dozers and loaders; four-wheel-drive loaders; excavators; motor graders; articulated dump trucks; landscape loaders; skid-steer loaders; and log skidders, feller bunchers, loaders, forwarders, harvesters and related attachments. The products and services produced by the segments above are marketed primarily through independent retail dealer networks and major retail outlets. The credit segment primarily finances sales and leases by John Deere dealers of new and used agricultural, commercial and consumer, and construction and forestry equipment. In addition, it provides wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment, provides operating loans and finances retail revolving charge accounts. John Deere is also engaged in special technologies operations and provides managed health care plans. John Deere's worldwide agricultural equipment; commercial and consumer equipment; construction and forestry; and special technologies operations are sometimes referred to as the "Equipment Operations." The credit and health care operations are sometimes referred to as "Financial Services." Additional information is presented in the discussion of business segment and geographic area results on page 17. The John Deere enterprise has manufactured agricultural machinery since 1837. The present Company was incorporated under the laws of Delaware in 1958. The Company's Internet address is http://www.JohnDeere.com. Through that address, the Company's annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports are available free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. | |
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