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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Randy Weaver	Victim	3-Jan-1948		Ruby Ridge Incident

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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