Kverneland Group is an international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural implements, electronic solutions and digital services to the farming community.
[Kverneland ASA]
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, retrieved 20 April 2013 The company provides Agricultural Implement Technology through the equipment manufacturing offering. Kverneland Group offers a range of soil and seeding equipment, forage and bale equipment, spreading, spraying, electronic solutions, and digital farm services for agricultural tractors and implements.
Company history
Kverneland Group was established by
Ole Gabriel Kverneland Ole Gabriel Gabrielsen Kverneland (29 May 1854 – 11 May 1941) was a Norwegian ploughsmith and factory owner. He was the founder of the Kverneland Group.
Personal life
Kverneland was born at Time in Rogaland, Norway. He was a son of farme ...
in 1879. It became a limited company in 1894 and by the 1920s it had become Norway's largest supplier of agricultural products, particularly in ploughs.
[ Kverneland remained a family-owned business until the company was listed on the ]Oslo Stock Exchange
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in 1983. Since the mid 1990s Kverneland Group has expanded through acquisitions of other manufacturers of agricultural implements.
Brands acquired by the Kverneland Group include Underhaug bale wrappers, Taarup Maskinfabrik disc mowers and hay tools, Maletti rotary harrows, Maschinenfabrik Accord seeding machines, Dutch Greenland Group fertiliser spreaders and grass product machinery, and RAU field sprayers. In 2008, the Taarup, Accord and RAU brand names were discontinued and replaced by the Kverneland name across the product range.joint venture
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with Gallignani s.p.a. with a new range of round balers (fixed and variable chamber), wrappers and a new range of drum mowers. In 2011, Kverneland Group opened a new assembly plant in Daqing, China. In 2012, Kubota Corporation
Kubota machine
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acquired Kverneland Group. Kverneland Group was delisted
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from the Oslo Stock Exchange in May 2012.[Odd Pihlstrøm]
Kubota vil doble plogproduksjon på Jæren
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, 29 June 2012
The company headquarters are located in Klepp
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, in the village of Kvernaland
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. Kverneland Group employs approximately 2,550 people worldwide,[ most of them in Europe. Kverneland Group owns the implement brands ]Kverneland
Kverneland Group is an international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural implements, electronic solutions and digital services to the farming community. and Vicon
Kverneland Group is an international company developing, producing and distributing agricultural implements, electronic solutions and digital services to the farming community. .
Kverneland Group’s factories are located in Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Russia and China. The Group has its own sales companies in 17 countries and exports to another 60 countries.
References
External links
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Manufacturing companies established in 1879
Companies based in Rogaland
Agriculture companies of Norway
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Norwegian companies established in 1879
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