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Deere & Co. (DE)On Nov 24: 52.29  Up 0.44 (0.85%)  
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Deere & Co.
One John Deere Place
Moline, IL 61265-8098
United States - Map
Phone: 309-765-8000
Fax: 309-765-5889
Web Site: http://www.deere.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Industrial Goods
Industry:Farm & Construction Machinery
Full Time Employees:56,653

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Deere & Company manufactures and distributes products and services for agriculture and forestry worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Agricultural Equipment, Commercial and Consumer Equipment, Construction and Forestry, and Credit. The Agricultural Equipment segment offers a line of farm equipment and related service parts, including tractors; combine, cotton, and sugarcane harvesters; tillage, seeding, and soil preparation machinery; sprayers; hay and forage equipment; integrated agricultural management systems technology; and precision agricultural irrigation equipment. The Commercial and Consumer Equipment segment provides equipment, products, and service parts for commercial and residential uses, such as tractors for lawn, garden, commercial, and utility purposes; mowing equipment, including walk-behind mowers; golf course equipment; utility vehicles; landscape and nursery products; irrigation equipment; and other outdoor power products. The Construction and Forestry segment offers a 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, log loaders, log forwarders, log harvesters, and related attachments. Its products and services are marketed primarily through independent retail dealer networks and retail outlets. The Credit segment primarily finances sales and leases by dealers of new and used agricultural, commercial and consumer, and construction and forestry equipment. It also provides wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment, provides operating loans, finances retail revolving charge accounts, offers certain crop risk mitigation products, and invests in wind energy generation. Deere & Company was founded in 1837 and is based in Moline, Illinois.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Deere & Co.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 38.3% of S&P 500 companies and 83.4% of Capital Goods companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Samuel R. Allen , 56
    Chief Exec. Officer, Pres, Director and Pres of John Deere Power Systems
    $ 2.59M $ 9.12M
    Mr. David C. Everitt , 57
    Pres of Agriculture & Turf Division - North America, Asia, Australia, Sub-Saharan & South Africa and Global Tractor & Turf Products
    $ 2.60M $ 3.03M
    Mr. Michael Mack Jr., 53
    Pres of Worldwide Construction and Forestry Division
    $ 2.47M $ 2.01M
    Mr. James A. Israel , 53
    Pres of John Deere Credit
    $ 2.21M $ 1.27M
    Mr. James M. Field , 46
    Chief Financial Officer and Sr. VP
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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