Overall impact
C (49)

Commentary

Deere is an average overall performer. With a 'C' rating of 49.3 for overall impact (40th percentile compared to all companies), Deere ranks 14th out of 27 industry peers, behind CubicFarm Systems, CNH Industrial, Gencor Industries and 10 others, and ahead of Lion Electric Company, CPM Holdings, Astec and 10 others. On top material causes for Deere's industry (Machinery), Deere performs well in Quality Lifelong Education (95.2 score), Technology Innovation (91.6) and Affordable, Safe Housing (80.2) and performs poorly in Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (39.0 score), Sustainable Use of Water (30.8), Terrestrial Biodiversity (8.3) and 8 other causes where it received a 'D' or 'F' score.
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Company
Founded
1837
Employees
75,800
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Machinery
Sub-industry
Agricultural & Farm Machinery
SASB industry
Industrial Machinery & Goods
Headquarters
Il, United States
Share classes
DE
Mission
To Double and Double Again the John Deere Experience of Genuine Value for Employees, Customers, and Shareholders
Description
Deere & Company engages in the manufacture and distribution of various equipment worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Production and Precision Agriculture, Small Agriculture and Turf, Construction and Forestry, and Financial Services. The Production and Precision Agriculture segment provides large and mid-size tractors, combines, cotton pickers and strippers, sugarcane harvesters and loaders, soil preparation, tillage, seeding, and crop care equipment, as well as application equipment, including sprayers and nutrient management, soil preparation machinery for grain growers, and related attachments and service parts. The Small Agriculture and Turf segment offers rotary mowers, hay and forage equipment, forage harvesters, utility tractors, and related loaders and attachments; turf and utility equipment, including riding lawn, commercial mowing, and golf course equipment, and utility vehicles; and other outdoor power products, as well as implements for mowing, tilling, snow and debris handling, aerating, residential, commercial, golf, and sports turf care applications. The Construction and Forestry segment provides backhoe loaders, crawler dozers and loaders, four-wheel-drive loaders, track loaders, excavators, motor graders, articulated dump trucks, landscape and skid-steer loaders, scraper systems, milling machines, recyclers, slipform and asphalt pavers, surface miners, compactors, tandem, static rollers, mobile crushers and screens, mobile and stationary asphalt plants, log skidders and harvesters, log feller bunchers, and log loaders and forwarders; and road building and rehabilitation equipment. The Financial Services segment finances sales and leases agriculture and turf, and construction and forestry equipment. It also offers wholesale financing to dealers of the foregoing equipment; and extended equipment warranties, as well as finances retail revolving charge accounts. The company was founded in 1837 and is headquartered in Moline, Illinois.
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