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Tim Merrett, a marketing vice will handle those duties for all combined products inthe company’s “regiohn 4” – the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Dale R. Brimeyer, director of globalk order fulfillment, will continue to oversese that process for all regionsd and platforms in the newly formec Worldwide Agriculture andTurf Division. Merrety has been with Deere in variousa capacitiessince 1991, Brimeyer since 1977.
“This new team of leaderas will leverageJohn Deere'x strengths worldwide, and deploy a new global operating model to better serve our customers and shareholders,” said Randu Sergesketter, senior vice president of global turf & utilith platform in the Agriculture and Turf Division. who has been in the Cary facilityg for the pastthres years, assumed his new title and role in The personnel changes follow Deere’s annocuned in April, to combine its Worldwide Agriculturalk Equipment Division and its Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipmenf Division into a single unit callec the Worldwide Agriculture and Turf Division. in turn, meant consolidating its six U.S.
sales branch offices into two "Centers of Excellence," one in Cary and anothed in Lenexa, Kansas. The restructuring, Deere also said at the would result in the elimination of aboutg 200 salaried positions through voluntary separationsby Sept. 30. The cuts were expecterd to be spread across thenew division, including the Cary which employs about 420. Company spokeswoman Kris Welsh says detailsw 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 offics willbe affected.
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