McCormick Tractors

McCormick Tractors International Limited is an English manufacturer of tractors. The company was founded in 2001 by the ARGO Group refers to the tradition of the McCormick brand and the indirect predecessor companies McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and International Harvester.

History

The McCormick brand was founded in 1856 from the company McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which rose in 1902 in the successor company International Harvester, which also continued the brand. After harvesting International sold the agricultural sector 1985 to the Case- division of Tenneco, the McCormick brand was discontinued. Among the requirements of the EU regulatory authority in 1999, guided merger of Case New Holland CNH Global with included the sale of the plant Doncaster. 2000 took over the Italian ARGO group 's work, as well as the trademark rights to McCormick. McCormick Tractors International was founded in 2001 and acquired by CNH Global another plant in St. Dizier, which McCormick was one of more than 1100 employees (as of 2001).

2002 ( near Munich), founded in hair as the German distribution McCormick GmbH, on the premises of Fella -Werke ( also at that time part of the ARGO Group ) moved in damp at Nuremberg in 2005. Since 2006, the Germany branch trades as Argo GmbH.

The plant in Doncaster was closed in late 2007. McCormick tractors have since been produced by ARGO in Italy.