Deere mpany : completes sale of crop insurance business

Deere & Company specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of agricultural and forestry materials and equipment. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - agricultural and green space maintenance equipment (66.6%): tractors, harvesters, sprayers, motors, cutters and grinders, scrapers, irrigation equipment, handling equipment, brush-hogs, power mowers, etc.; - construction and forestry equipment (24.1%): loaders, graders, tractors, excavators, cutter-chippers, forwarders, etc.; - other (1.6%). The remaining sales (7.7%) are from sales financing services (purchasing, leasing, etc.). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (55.7%), Latin America (13.4%), Western Europe (11.9%), Asia/Africa/Oceania/Middle East (8.5%), Canada (7%) and other (3.5%).