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1999 Case seek a merger with New Holland, Shareholders agree and new company becomes Case New Holland Global N.V. (CNH)
E.U. regulatory authorities rubber stamp merger, providing that CNH divest themselves of the Doncaster Wheatley Hall Road plant and the 50 to 100hp C,CX and MXC tractors it produces along with the MX Maxxum production and engineering know how.
2000 After negotiations with various interested parties, the plant is purchased by “ARGO S.p.a” of Italy and it is announced that the Doncaster plant will become the global headquarters for McCORMICK TRACTORS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
Products from Doncaster will be sold world wide under the McCORMICK brand name.
Other sister companies under the ARGO name are:-
LANDINI
LAVERDA
VALPADANA
PEGORARO
2001 In January the E.U. authorities give their approval to the deal and McCORMICK TRACTORS INTERNATIONAL LTD start trading.
Within days our first overseas distributor is signed up ”Power Farming” of Morrinsville in New Zealand
2001 Negotiations continue between ARGO S.p.a. and CNH Global for the purchase of the CNH transmission facility at St DIZIER in France.
In April it is announced that CNH have sold St Dizier to ARGO, this now becomes McCORMICK France and the headquarters for operations in France.
The acquisition of St Dizier gives McCORMICK an operating base in France as well as control over the transmission build for now and the future.
With the acquisition the McCormick family grows to a total of 1100 people.
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