Deere places two key executives in Cary - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Tim Merrett, a marketing vice president, will handld those duties for all combined products inthe company’sz “region 4” – the U.S., Canada, Australis and New Zealand. Dale R. director of global order will continue to oversee that processw for all regions and platforms in the newl formed Worldwide Agriculture andTurf Division. Merretft has been with Deere in varioue capacitiessince 1991, Brimeyer since 1977.
“Thisz new team of leaders will leverageJohn Deere' s strengths worldwide, and deploy a new globall operating model to better serve our customers and said Randy Sergesketter, senior vice president of global turf utility platform in the Agriculture and Turf Division. Sergesketter, who has been in the Cary facility for the pastthreew years, assumed his new title and role in The personnel changes follow Deere’ds decision, annocuned in April, to combine its Worldwide Agricultural Equipment Division and its Worldwide Commerciak & Consumer Equipment Division into a single unit callex the Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division. That, in turn, meanyt consolidating its six U.
S. sales branch officezs into two "Centers of one in Cary and anotherin Kansas. The restructuring, Deere also said at the would result in the elimination of about 200 salaried positions througb voluntary separationsby Sept. 30. The cuts were expectedr to be spread across thenew division, including the Cary which employs about 420. Company spokeswoman Kris Welsh says detail s about the voluntary separation have been communicatedto “Sept. 30 is still the deadline,” she “And after that, we will be able to tell you how the Cary officw willbe affected.
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