Toro (company)

The Toro Company is an American manufacturer of machinery and equipment for the lawn and landscape care, especially lawn mowers, lawn tractors, sports court and golf course maintenance equipment and irrigation systems.

The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Head of Toro is Bloomington, Minnesota. There are 5300 full-time employees, the turnover in 2007 was 1.877 billion U.S. dollars. President and CEO of Toro is Michael J. Hoffman.

Toro was founded in 1914. 1927 sold you the tractor production at Advance Rumely. In 1984, the existing one under the brand Wheel Horse lawn mowers and tractors division of the American Motors Corporation. Further acquisitions followed: 1989 Lawn -Boy 1996 James Hardie Irrigation, 1997 Exmark, 2005 Hayter, 2007 Rainmaster and Turf Guard. Since the 1990s, the focus has shifted more and more into the professional user area who in 1990 identified about one-third of the business and has grown to about 70 % by 2007. The production of lawn tractors in the lower price range for home was being licensed to MTD in 2007.

In Germany, the Toro brand from 1955 to 2010 about the company Roth was motor units in Pleidelsheim near Stuttgart imported, the German had the exclusive distribution right and went into bankruptcy in 2010. The distribution for Germany takes place since Toro, Belgium.