Some 20.5% of all surveyed dealers indicated they’d won over more farmers to their respective major-line equipment brand than usual in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The UK agricultural machinery sector has experienced an unprecedented level of lead franchise changes in 2020, driven largely by John Deere’s dealer scale ambitions but also a revised policy for AGCO’s multi-brand distribution.
Cazenovia Equipment has announced it will be opening a new location in Fulton, N.Y. in early fall of 2020. Because Cazenovia Equipment is merging its Sandy Creek and Watertown locations, the new Fulton store will offer customers of Oswego and Onondaga counties continuity of service.
Godfrey Bros., a single store John Deere dealership in Jonesville, Mich., announced that it was acquired by GreenMark Equipment on Sept. 1. GreenMark now has 16 locations throughout Southwestern Michigan and Northwestern Indiana.
The monthly survey of equipment dealerships found that sales were down 1% year-over-year in October, a slight improvement vs. the 2% declines reported in the September.
P&K Equipment is acquiring Grissoms, a neighboring John Deere dealer, with 5locations throughout Oklahoma, including Prague, Shawnee, McAlester, Muskogee and Ada.
The Salisbury, Mo. location will be a full John Deere parts, attachments, service and sales location for large agriculture, compact tractors, turf & utility, and commercial work site products.
LandPro Equipment provides new and used lawn and garden, commercial, light industrial and agricultural equipment to western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and now northeastern Ohio.
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In this episode of On the Record, brought to you by Associated Equipment Distributors, Deere Director of Investor Relations Josh Beal told JP Morgan analysts that the OEM is confident it will be “producing to demand” in fiscal year 2025.