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Deere

COMPANY

Farm equipment manufacturer, founded 1837 by John Deere, incorporated 1868.

Official Website:
http://www.deere.com/

Industry:
Manufacturing

Ticker:
NYSE:DE

Corporate headquarters:
Moline, IL

Sales:
$13.3B (2003)

Employees:
43200 (2003)

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel R. Allen
Business
c. 1954   CEO of John Deere
Hans W. Becherer
Business
1935   CEO of Deere, 1989-2000
John Deere
Business
7-Feb-1804 17-May-1886 Invented the self-scouring plow
Robert W. Lane
Business
14-Nov-1949   CEO of Deere, 2000-09
Pierre E. Leroy
Business
c. 1948   Retired executive, Deere

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Samuel R. Allen
Business
c. 1954   CEO of John Deere
Crandall C. Bowles
Business
c. 1947   CEO of Springs Global
Vance D. Coffman
Business
3-Apr-1944   CEO of Lockheed Martin, 1998-2004
T. Kevin Dunnigan
Business
c. 1938   CEO of Thomas & Betts, 2000-04
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
Business
1948   CEO of DuPont, 1998-2008
Dipak C. Jain
Educator
9-Jun-1957   Dean, Kellogg School of Management
Clayton M. Jones
Business
c. 1949   CEO of Rockwell Collins
Arthur L. Kelly
Business
c. 1938   Partner, KEL Enterprises
Robert W. Lane
Business
14-Nov-1949   CEO of Deere, 2000-09
Antonio Madero Bracho
Business
c. 1937   Founder, SANLUIS Corporación
Joachim Milberg
Business
10-Apr-1943   CEO of BMW, 1999-2002
Richard Myers
Military
1-Mar-1942   Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2001-05
Thomas H. Patrick
Business
c. 1943   Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch, 2002-03
Aulana L. Peters
Business
30-Nov-1941   Former Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Hans W. Becherer
Business
1935   CEO of Deere, 1989-2000
John R. Block
Government
13-Feb-1935   US Secretary of Agriculture, 1981-86
William Schreyer
Business
13-Jan-1928 22-Jan-2011 CEO of Merrill Lynch, 1984-92
John R. Walter
Business
c. 1948   CEO of RR Donnelley, 1989-96

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Randy Weaver
Victim
3-Jan-1948   Ruby Ridge Incident

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Rodney Brooks
Scientist
30-Dec-1954   Robotics and artificial intelligence researcher
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Henry Dreyfuss
Inventor
2-Mar-1904 5-Oct-1972 Product designer, human factors engineer


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